Word: mahan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mahan's Day. There was no denying that against the destructive virtuosity of surface raiders, of Nazi airmen and of seamen lying in the chill, sweating bowels of the U-boats, the British convoy system was far from effective. The great danger was that, with better weather, it would become even less effective. In the tragic, high-hearted history of Britain's first 18 months of war was the admitted record of at least 4,300,000 gross tons of shipping lost at sea. This was a net loss (after replacements) of some 2,650,000 tons (TIME...
...themselves still abuilding. The fate of the Empire hung upon the productive capacity of the U. S.-on its shipyards as much as on its aircraft factories, its gun and ammunition plants. The apocalyptic day seen by the U. S.'s late, great Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan had dawned...
...each nation [the U. S. and Britain]," wrote Mahan 47 years ago, "be educated to realize the length and breadth of its own interest in the sea; when that is done, the identity of these interests will become apparent. This identity cannot be established firmly in men's minds antecedent to the great teacher, Experience; and experience cannot be had before that further development of the facts which will follow the not far distant day, when the United States people must again betake themselves to the sea and to external action...
...before, the President had written Navy Secretary Frank Knox a tribute on the 100th anniversary of the birth of Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, supreme U. S. Navy strategist. Significantly the President pointed to Mahan's theories that "threats of aggression can best be met at a distance from our shores rather than on the seacoast itself...
...remained for the late, great Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan to put down on paper for future Annapolis men the specific doctrine of the area's importance. "One thing is sure," he wrote, "in the Caribbean Sea is the strategical key of two great oceans, the Atlantic and the Pacific; our own chief maritime frontiers...