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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... North Sea , the Strait of Gibraltar , and ( after 1869 ) the Suez Canal and Red Sea . By occupying one or both shores of those narrow seas , and by maintaining superior naval forces , the British government wielded at all times a ...
... North Sea and around the British Isles , the entire imperial system stands secure . " Mahan was considerably less percipient when he came to apply British doctrine and practice to American conditions . The strategic geography of the ...
... North America , the United States was , from the perspective of military geog- raphy , as insular as Britain . Everything Mahan said about the advantages of insularity applied as much to the United States as to the British Isles . But ...
... North in the American Civil War . At the same time , it could be argued that hit - and- run raiding was the only offensive strategy available to the United States in more distant seas- -at least under technological conditions prevailing ...
... north until 1777 , preventing a junction of these forces with those in New York , which , if it had taken place , might well have ended the war in the autumn of 1776. This delay , together with the poor generalship of the British ...