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...Millard's account of this journey, The River of Doubt, was published by Doubleday last year
Mahan's book, which Roosevelt devoured in one reading, is at first sight a detailed account of the many battles fought by the British Royal Navy as it rose to become sovereign of the seas. But it is much more than that, for Mahan claimed to have detected the principles that underlay the workings of sea power, and had determined the rise and fall of nations. With great skill, the author showed the intimate relationships among productive industry, flourishing seaborne commerce, strong national finances and enlightened national purpose. Great navies did not arise out of thin air; they...
...days after the Maine went down, on a late Friday afternoon when Long was temporarily out of the office, his dynamic assistant cabled instructions to Admiral William T. Sampson in the Caribbean and Commodore George Dewey in Hong Kong to prepare for decisive action. Long, though by his own account somewhat bemused, did nothing later to counter those orders. So when Congress declared war on Spain on April 25, the U.S. squadrons in both theaters had been heavily reinforced. The results--the destruction of the Spanish fleets in Manila Bay and, two months later, off Santiago, Cuba--were decisive. Spain...
...refrained from declaring independence, changing the island's name or flag, or holding a public referendum on Taiwan's status?all of which would provoke Beijing. Yet China's leaders have cold-shouldered him because they view him in only one dimension?as a "splittist"?without seemingly taking into account the need for Chen, an elected official, to cater to his party and his supporters. Both those groups are more radical and ideological than Chen, who, in truth, is more of a pragmatist concerned with staying in office than a separatist obsessed with making Taiwan independent...
...help them. The critics have been right to raise issues, but you can't neglect people when they clearly have a disorder, just because we can't technically fit them into our arbitrary system of classification." There were flaws in the design of McGlashan's trial, he says, that account for the negative result...