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Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, U. S. N., probably the world's greatest naval theorist and historian, maintained that all great conflicts could be analyzed as struggles between land powers and sea powers. By their fluidity, sea powers always...
Once more in 1914-18 British sea power choked and starved a combination of great continental empires, and Britain was at it again last week. But sea power may suffer many a set-back before the final conclusion...
...theories of the late great Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan are correct and World War II is one more struggle between sea power and land power, as the War went into its seventh week the fighting continued almost entirely in the sphere where the Allies are proportionately strongest-on water. Within seven days three submarines, three freighters, three passenger ships and a battleship went to the bottom...
Admiral Mahan died in 1914, too early to realize that World War I would produce another kind of power, air power. Far swifter, far more plastic, perhaps far deadlier than any weapon previously invented by man, its great potentialities nevertheless remained, after 25 years of development and 1,000 hours of the war that would ultimately prove its potency, almost as untried as the 2,000,000 troops facing each other last week across the Rhine...
Prevented by time and the Versailles Treaty from building a great Navy, Germany realized that to rise and fight again she must count on an air force for its long-range striking force. The two men most directly concerned with building the Air Force were one all the world has heard of, Hermann Göring, and one very few have heard of, Erhard Milch. Though he has kept closest surveillance over the Air Force, Göring has in recent months taken over many outside duties, and the real propeller of the force is now Erhard Milch, Inspector-General...