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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... Captain Alfred T. 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 ...
... captains had challenged the over- whelming sea power of Great Britain . The ten dreadnoughts which steamed slowly up the Bay on that December morning nearly one hundred and fifty years later symbolized the Ameri- can Navy's inexorable ...
... Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan , then at the zenith of his fame , the doctrine of command of the sea was officially accepted , it is true . And there was some apprecia- tion of the corollary principle of concentration of power . But there ...
... Captain Mahan in 1890 finally brought about the long overdue subordination of those ancestral con- ceptions to the modern and fundamental doctrine of command of the sea . Official acceptance of Mahan's philosophy of sea power had in ...
... Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan's reinterpreta- tion , more than one hundred years later , of the naval operations of the Revolution , figured so conspicuously in the rise of the strategic principle which is today the basic doctrine of ...