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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... operations in World War II stimulated long overdue questions regarding some of the most hallowed concepts of American naval policy . The process of reevaluation was further stimu- lated by the development of nuclear explosives , long ...
... operations , discursive technical discussions of strategy and tactics , and propaganda for expanded foreign commerce , over- seas expansion , a more active foreign policy , and a bigger and better navy . However , no one ( least of all ...
... operations in war . Britain's im- munity from invasion , he contended , had not been achieved by dispersing the Royal Navy along the coasts of the British Isles , or by distributing its ships among the oversea colonies . The British ...
Harold Hance Sprout, Margaret T. Sprout. operations on land , while sometimes useful as a supplement , was not an effective substitute for command of the sea achieved by superior concentrations of capital ships capable of sinking enemy ...
... operations that the United States could have conducted against any European enemy . Mahan recog- nized these limitations , yet ambivalently advocated a capital fleet strategy not merely as a necessity for continental defense but also as ...