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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... these naval outposts was located upon an island , or at the foot of a peninsula or promontory , or upon a coast backed by a formidable desert , jungle , or mountain range . Before the advent of submarines and aircraft , and before.
Harold Hance Sprout, Margaret T. Sprout. Before the advent of submarines and aircraft , and before the development of transcontinental railways , these British out- posts were as secure from attack as the British homeland itself . As ...
... submarines , and aircraft ; yet there is hardly any evi- dence that , to the day of his death in 1914 , he anticipated in the slightest the revolutionary effects that these and other mechanical inventions would produce in the years just ...
... submarines , aircraft , and aircraft carriers were all present in the Grand Fleet at the close of the World War . The strategic and tactical principles which governed that Fleet's operations were substantially those in vogue today . The ...
... submarine was still an experimental toy , the immense potentialities of which no one could then foresee . And few men had even dreamed of the development of aircraft into powerful instruments of maritime defense and into indispensable ...