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- Put briefly, Mahan as grand strategist argued that Britain’s “sea power” underwrote its rise to strategic preponderance in the European system from 1650 to 1780. In a virtuous cycle, physical access to the sea, commercial trade, and colonial possessions created national wealth.
classicsofstrategy.com/2022/02/09/alfred-thayer-mahan-the-influence-of-sea-power-upon-history-as-strategy-grand-strategy-and-polemic/Alfred Thayer Mahan: “The Influence of Sea Power Upon History ...
In 1890, Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, a lecturer in naval history and the president of the United States Naval War College, published The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783, a revolutionary analysis of the importance of naval power as a factor in the rise of the British Empire.
Mahan reached back into the history of mankind's struggles to develop his thesis concerning sea power. In Mahan' s day, Britain was at the zenith of her ascendancy as the seat of a world empire; and Mahan's historical analysis extracted from the story of Britain's rise the factors which had enabled her to achieve wealth
The French at first adopted Mahan's theories. French naval doctrine in 1914 was dominated by Mahan's theory of sea power and therefore geared toward winning decisive battles and gaining mastery of the seas.
- Alfred Thayer Mahan
- 1890
- 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...
Captain (later Admiral) Alfred Thayer Mahan, USN, was the “evangelist of sea power,” writing for a rising maritime power and passionately trying to con-vince his American audience of the greatness of sea power and the importance of having a navy.1 He pointed out persuasively that sea-lanes were of greater strategic value than land routes, and th...
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Oct 26, 2021 · The Influence of Sea Power Upon History (1890) is a work of naval history and strategy by Alfred Thayer Mahan. Drawing on decades of experience as a naval officer, researcher, and university...
