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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... hit - and - run raiding , a sort of naval counterpart to guerilla 2 H. J. Mackinder , Democratic Ideals and Reality , Henry Holt & Co. , 1919 , 1942 , p . 58 . operations on land , while sometimes useful as a supplement.
... raiding had crippled neither Britain in the War of 1812 nor the 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 ...
... raiding cruiser warfare and passive coast and harbor defense . The advent of Captain Mahan in 1890 finally brought about the long overdue subordination of those ancestral con- ceptions to the modern and fundamental doctrine of command ...
... raided the coasts of the British Isles and of outlying parts of the British Empire.9 Several States raised their own naval forces.10 While these State navies included a few deep - sea cruising vessels , they con- sisted chiefly of ...
... raiding our continental seaboard . Against such perils , the argument of cost had no validity . A navy was admittedly expensive and we did have a " very heavy debt ; but still it was better to bear debts than depredations . ' " 123 A ...