The United States Navy (USN) officer and historian Alfred Thayer Mahan was referred to by John Keegan as ‘the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century.’ His 1890 book, The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783, was immediately well-known, particularly in Europe. When its 1892 sequel, The Influence of Sea Power upon the […]

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