Word: mahan
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...Pearl Harbor ended an epoch in naval history-an end to which the sinking of H.M.S. Prince of Wales and Repulse were only extra footnotes. The Navy now has put its full wartime emphasis on airplane carriers and on airborne attack. Blue-Water Men. The works of Alfred Thayer Mahan, for half a century, were the Navy's Bible...
...example of the Gallipoli at which Colonel Kernan rails so effectively. Unless he has information on the present control of the Mediterranean which is unknown to the layman he would appear to speak unwisely. He may continue to dismiss the value of sea power with the pat chapter title "Mahan Was Wrongl," but until he brings facts rather than sarcasm to bear on the Admiral's theory, control of the sea lanes will still have a certain appeal to warring powers and the Mediterranean will still be a difficult "mare nostrum" in which to maintain lines of communication...
...Hitler can be beaten only by going after him, smashing him, routing his armies. His thesis is simple: the U.S., Britain and France relied too long on defense outposts (Singapore, Hong Kong), defense lines (the Maginot for France, the oceans for the U.S.), the classic seapower doctrines of Admiral Mahan. (One chapter title: "Mahan Was Wrong!") France fell because the French and British generals were gripped by the "defense myth." So fell Singapore, Hong Kong and the Philippines. Kernan pointed the lesson: by trying to defend everywhere, the Allies had held nowhere...
...Mahan's Influence of Sea Power upon History...
Some of the old: Louisa M. Alcott's Little Women and Little Men; the novels of E. Phillips Oppenheim; Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan's studies on the influence of sea power in history; John Bartlett's Familiar Quotations; and above all the masterwork of "the mother of level measurements," Fannie Farmer. Her Boston Cooking-School Book has sold over 2,000,000 copies, is rapidly creeping up on Gone With the Wind, which has sold over 3,000,000 copies. Such perennials ("back list") can be the most dependably profitable part of any publishing business that...