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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... Britain in the heyday of the Pax Britannica . We began to question these points shortly after The Rise was published . Some of our doubts are reflected in the opening chapters of Toward a New Order of Sea Power , published in 1940. In a ...
... Britain's world position largely , though not exclusively , to certain strategic and tactical principles which , after generations of trial and error , had come to govern British naval deployment and operations in war . Britain's im ...
... Britain lies on the periphery of Europe , the superior mobility of movement by sea rendered the British position strategically central vis - à - vis every continental country , so long as the British Navy controlled the sea . Britain ...
... Britain and Japan . " Or , in Admiral Lord Fisher's even more colorful metaphor : Britain held the " five keys " which " lock up the world " -Dover , Gibraltar , Alexandria , the Cape of Good Hope , and Singapore.1 3 Mahan understood ...
... Britain . Everything Mahan said about the advantages of insularity applied as much to the United States as to the British Isles . But right there the parallel ended ! Because the Atlantic Ocean is immensely wider than the English ...