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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... Command of , " in Encyclopedia Britannica ; ch . 10 of Foundations of Interna- tional Politics , Van Nostrand , 1962 ; and " Geopolitical Hypotheses in Techno- logical Perspective , " in World Politics , Jan. 1963 , v . 15 , pp . 187 ...
... command of the sea achieved by superior concentrations of capital ships capable of sinking enemy forces or driving them to cover ; capable of blockading enemy ports and thereby paralyzing the enemy's internal econ- omy ; and capable ...
... command of Europe's narrow seas . There were no narrow seaways in the Americas comparable in international importance to the English Channel and the Strait of Gibraltar . Naval theorists often drew an analogy between the Caribbean and ...
... 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 was little agreement , even in theory , as to the proper composition of a ...
... command of the sea . Official acceptance of Mahan's philosophy of sea power had in turn effected radical changes in the naval building policy of the United States . Important developments in both the technical and political spheres had ...