![]() Navy's Force Structure and Operational Planning * The Influence of Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan Upon the United States Navy Through the United States Naval Institute's Proceedings * The Idea of a "Fleet in Being" in Historical Perspective * The Legacy of Mahan for the 21st Century Naval Strategy in the Twenty-First Century * Mahan Goes to War: Effects of World War I on the U.S. Mahan's Influence on United States Naval Strategy Through 1918 * Maritime Power: Some Observations on Strategy, Tactics and Technology * Vision to Victory - Space, Mahan, and Mitchell: The Role of the Visionary in Cross-Organizational Innovation * Evolution of Maritime Strategy - Is Sea Power 21 the Answer? * The Relevance of Mahanian Theory in the Nuclear Age * Mahan and Corbett on Maritime Strategy * United States Military Theorists: A Study of Patrons and Interests * Mahan for the Twenty First Century: His Principles Still Apply to National Power * Beyond Mahan: A Proposal for a U.S. Naval War College in Newport, where he once taught, established the Alfred Thayer Mahan Professor of Grand Strategy in the Strategy and Policy Department.Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique book reproduces thirteen important government documents, reports, and studies dealing with the career and work of naval pioneer and strategist Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan. In honor of Mahan, and as a nod to his strategic thinking and his influence on modern naval affairs, the U.S. The Royal United Services Institute honored him with the Chesney Gold Medal for his scholarship on the British Empire, and in 1902, he was elected president of the American Historical Association.Īccording to the British war historian John Keegan, Mahan was “the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century.” The Naval History and Heritage Command, which manages the official history of the United States Navy, noted that Mahan’s “works have had tremendous influence all over the world, especially those directly concerning seapower.” Before his retirement, he was awarded honorary degrees from Oxford, Cambridge, Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Dartmouth, and McGill. In 1906, 16 years after his first and most influential work, he retired from the Navy to spend the next eight years of his life dedicated to studying naval history, as well as modern global maritime affairs. These views were subscribed to by leading politicians of the early 20th century, including Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt. For Mahan, America was the next imperial power that should invest in its naval capabilities. ![]() His views were influenced by the naval dominance of the British Empire but he, along with other geopolitical commentators, believed the Empire was on the decline. In his 1910 book “ The Interest of America in International Conditions,” he mapped out the sequence as “industry, markets, control, navy, bases.” His belief that a growing population would inevitably lead to industrial growth and supply and demand increases, would result in the necessity for extending trade outside of one’s borders (that is, global trade) and the creation of naval bases to protect those trade routes and those moving capital assets. Mahan established a land-to-sea concept that was sequential and based upon the demands of a nation’s population. ![]() His first, “ The Influence of Sea Power upon History,” would prove his most influential and would change the way the world looked at the high seas. In all, he would write 20 books dealing with the subject of sea power. ![]() His studies of naval power extended from the ancient Greeks and Romans into the modern era. His extensive studies on the naval powers of the 17th to 19th centuries resulted in works that established him as the strategist of his generation, if not his century. Growing up in a scholarly military household, Mahan was introduced to military and naval strategy at an early age. Navy that would see his involvement in the Civil War and the Spanish-American War, but those involvements paled in comparison to his involvements in the lecture halls of naval academies and his global influence on the view of sea power. Mahan enjoyed a 40-year career in the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland by Jefferson Davis. After attending Columbia College in New York City, he was recommended for an appointment to the U.S. Despite his proximity to the military academy, it was the Navy that transfixed the young Mahan. Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840–1914) was born in West Point, New York, and was the son of a professor of civil and military engineering at the U.S.
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