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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...
Adelbert Ames III, William Ames Atchley, Joseph Smith Bigelow, III, John Morton Blum, John Crapo Bullard, Gaelen Lee Felt, John Michael Harrington, Jr., Robert Heywood Hoskins, Edward Eyre Hunt, Jr., Martin Collins Johnson, Allan Lewis Levine, Harold Thayer Meryman, Henry Whitney Munroe, Joseph Crawford Scott, Carl Bryce Seligman, Preston Wood Smith, Jr., John Leland Sosman, John Finley Williamson, Jr., Brooks Wright...
...Philip Thayer...
...charge are as follows: Eliot, Quinby Taylor '41, Roger S. Schafer '41; Dunster, Joel C. Goldthwait '40, Philip L. Strong '40; Adams, Thomas lacey '41, Robert A. James '41; Leverett, Harry W. Hollmeyer '40, Benjamin Wilcox '40; Lowell, Joseph R. Cramp '40, LeBaron R. Briggs '41; Winthrop, Phillip Thayer '41, Duncan Lane '41; Kirkland. Richard S. Lane '41, Francis M. Shapson...
...Life and Work of Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan U.S.N.* is the first full-dress biography of a godly, pike-backed salty sailor who in his lifetime (1840-1914) did more than any other to shape the modern navies of the world. In his 40 years of active service, Alfred Mahan never rose above Captain, became a Rear Admiral only when he retired. A contemptuous superior called him a "pen-and-ink sailor," and put caged canaries near his cabin to drown out the scratching of the Mahan pen. Today his biographer, Captain William Dilworth Puleston, U.S.N., retired, and most Navy...