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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... continental country , so long as the British Navy controlled the sea . Britain controlled the sea by controlling the ocean portals of Europe . Broadly speaking , European countries could gain ac- cess to the oceans only through narrow ...
... continental United States were proportionally smaller - and Mahan said so . From the standpoint of world politics , and for purposes of waging large - scale offensive war against the Great Powers over- seas , however , the American ...
... continental defense but also as a presumably effective military and political instru- ment vis - à - vis the Great Powers overseas . At the same time , alternative opportunities already on the horizon went largely or completely ...
... continental Power to a world empire , although few men in 1898 grasped the 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 ...
... Continental Congress.2 A third factor was the opportunity which the war afforded to plunder the commerce of the British Empire . The merchant shipping and military transports of Great Britain were viewed as a legitimate source of ...