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SOUNDING clean and clear through the flap and fuzzy thought about Middle East crisis, Week Two, was the calm counsel of a naval historian and philosopher who died 44 years ago. His name: Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, U.S. Navy (1840-1914). His counsel, delivered at century's turning point in brilliant books, such as The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 and The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future, was that the U.S. national interest was to secure overseas bases, trade routes, to guard them with unbeatable military power. In his day and since...
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...were building fleets to challenge Pax Britannica and tilt the world balance of power. T.R. argued for war with Spain to kick the Spaniards % out of Cuba and to get the U.S. into world posture, a course also advocated by T.R.'s mentor and friend, Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, as the only...
...great tendency is nearing its crisis and culmination. Specially gifted with qualities needed to realize the fullness of its possibilities . . . they thenceforth personify to the world the movement which brought them forth." These famous opening words to The Life of Nelson (1897) by famed Naval Historian-Philosopher Alfred Thayer Mahan contain the gist of Rene Maine's new study of the most decisive moment in French and British naval history. Unlike...
...Mahan's works, Trajalgar will not be a classic, but French Author Maine's broad, historical approach, coupled with a brisk style, would win an approving nod from his great U.S. predecessor. Like Mahan, Maine is obsessed by a historical drama in which one of the principal characters, Horatio Nelson, was "specially gifted with qualities" demanded by the times and the other, Napoleon Bonaparte, decidedly...