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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... Mahan , notable for their flashes of insight intermingled with rambling narratives of naval operations , discursive technical discussions of strategy and tactics , and propaganda for expanded foreign commerce , over- seas expansion , a ...
... Mahan's theories and interpretations , and their bearing on American naval policy.1 It is difficult to exaggerate the indirect influence of British naval history on American naval policy and development in the 1890's and 1900's . Mahan's ...
... Mahan never put it so concisely , his reading of the Pax Britannica is virtually the same as Mackinder's . Mahan attributed Britain's world position largely , though not exclusively , to certain strategic and tactical principles which ...
... Mahan understood all this well enough . He repeatedly em- phasized the superior capabilities of seaborne transport as compared with haulage overland . He dwelt on the advantages Britain derived from the configuration of the European ...
... Mahan once put it , was a " factor equiva- lent to a certain number of ships . " For this reason the minimum naval requirements for defense of the continental United States were proportionally smaller - and Mahan said so . From the ...