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Mar 21, 2022 · Nor did Mahan think that the international system was likely to change in the near future. His scathing comments on Norman Angell’s The Great Illusion show how far Mahan was from the view that great power rivalries were atavistic and suicidal. Mahan argued that ‘the entire conception of the work is itself an illusion based on a profound ...
Feb 9, 2022 · As a history of naval war Influence makes for dull reading. Rather, Mahan is interested in the more fundamental relationship between national primacy and the sea. Without commerce, territorial infrastructure, and political will, naval preponderance is unsustainable. Momentary superiority in tonnage or deployable warships often masks a deeper brittleness. As Mahan puts it when discussing the ...
The Influence of Sea Power upon History: 1660–1783 is a history of naval warfare published in 1890 by the American naval officer and historian Alfred Thayer Mahan.It details the role of sea power during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and discussed the various factors needed to support and achieve sea power, with emphasis on having the largest and most powerful fleet.
- Alfred Thayer Mahan
- 1890
Jun 30, 2014 · T hree years before the war, Mahan engaged in a literary joust with Norman Angell, the author of The Great Illusion, a book which posited that the civilized nations of Europe had passed out of that stage of development in which conflicts were settled by military means. Mahan retorted that Angell’s argument was “itself an illusion based upon ...
- Kevin D. McCranie
- ON THE ORIGINS OF THE WAR
- THE NORTH SEA THEATER OF OPERATIONS
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One day before Britain officially declared war, Mahan was interviewed regarding what he believed to be the origins of the war and the spark that had ignited it. His statements addressed power relationships among European states and un-derlying motivations instead of focusing on the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Mahan believed Austria-H...
During the first days of the war, Mahan speculated a great deal about navies. This should not be surprising, given the overall focus of his writings and his associa-tion with the concept of sea power. Four years before the outbreak of war, one of his contemporaries even claimed, “We may regard him as the virtual inventor of the term. . . . He has m...
Alfred Thayer Mahan stands out as one of the foremost thinkers on naval warfare and maritime strategy. Indeed, he might be considered the thinker on sea power, the essential starting point for studying the course and conduct of war at sea and for understanding the strategic importance of the maritime commons in determining the rise and fall of great powers.
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Sep 9, 2016 · The book carried the grand title The Influence of Sea Power upon History 1660-1783 and its author was a shy United States naval officer-turned war college professor named Alfred Thayer Mahan. In the forward to his book, Mahan set forth his purpose to examine “…the general history of Europe and America with particular reference to the effect of sea power upon the course of that history.”
