Rise of American Naval PowerPrinceton University Press, 08/12/2015 - 422 من الصفحات Attempts to assemble the historic pattern of contributing factors which shaped the course of American naval development from 1776 to 1918. |
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... United States battle- ships inside Pearl Harbor and the subsequent course of naval operations in World War II stimulated long overdue questions regarding some of the most hallowed concepts of American naval policy . The process of ...
Harold Hance Sprout, Margaret T. Sprout. technology . The United States Naval Institute had published serially in its ... navy . However , no one ( least of all Mahan ) had exam- ined and synthesized in broad historical perspective the ...
... United States as to the British Isles . But right there the parallel ended ! Because the Atlantic Ocean is immensely wider than the English Channel and North Sea , and because no American state approached the greater powers of Europe in ...
... United States in more distant seas- -at least under technological conditions prevailing well into the twentieth century . The geo- graphical isolation of the United States from Eurasia , lack of advantageously located naval ports close ...
... naval implications of this fact . Even fewer foresaw the larger par- ticipation of the United States in world politics which took place under Secretary of State John Hay ( 1898-1905 ) and President Theodore Roosevelt ( 1901–1909 ) ...