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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...
...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...
From "Uncle Joe" down to the rawest gob, the men and officers of the U. S. Fleet swear they could lick Japan's Navy. In full-dress sea fight they ought to. But in the quiet watches, the bravest must remember Alfred Thayer Mahan's dictum: that a Navy is composed of men, ships, bases. (Admiral Mahan, the high priest of modern navies, died before air power began to confuse sea power.) What the U. S. Navy lacks in the western Pacific, Japan has: a sufficient line of bases...