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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... Atlantic Ocean , Command of , " in Encyclopedia Britannica ; ch . 10 of Foundations of Interna- tional Politics , Van Nostrand , 1962 ; and " Geopolitical Hypotheses in Techno- logical Perspective , " in World Politics , Jan. 1963 , v ...
... Atlantic , Indian , and Pacific oceans - with one exception : the potential ( but still unbuilt ) seaway across the American isthmus . With negligible exceptions , each of these naval outposts was located upon an island , or at the foot ...
... Atlantic Ocean is immensely wider than the English Channel and North Sea , and because no American state approached the greater powers of Europe in military po- tential , the homeland of the United States could be made more secure at ...
... Atlantic seaboard . The configuration of that seaboard rendered the Colonies highly vulnerable . Hostile occupation of Chesapeake Bay , Delaware Bay , or the Hudson River , and their tributary waters , would disrupt overland com ...
... Atlantic to the St. Lawrence . Hostile possession of this thoroughfare would iso- late New England , and quite possibly result in irretrievable disaster to the Revolutionary cause . * NAVAL STRATEGY AND OPERATIONS The naval efforts of ...