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Mahan's name became a household word in the German navy, as Kaiser William II ordered his officers to read Mahan, and Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz ( 1849 – 1930 ) used Mahan's reputation to finance a powerful surface fleet.
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Mahan's and German
He created popular magazines about the navy, arranged for Alfred Thayer Mahan's The Influence of Sea Power upon History, which argued the importance of naval forces, to be translated into German and serialised in newspapers, arranged rallies in support and invited politicians and industrialists to naval reviews.
However, as the Royal Navy's blockade of the German Empire was a critical direct and indirect factor in the eventual German collapse, Mahan's theories were vindicated by the First World War.
Mahan's and navy
Although Mahan's influence on foreign powers has been generally recognized, only rather recently have scholars called attention to his role as significant in the growth of American overseas possessions, the rise of the new American navy, and the adoption of the strategic principles upon which it operated.
Despite Mahan's prestige, the college was long met with skepticism by navy officers accustomed to conducting all education aboard ship.
Mahan's and William
Arthavadam, M. P. Paul and William Hudson, Appan Thampuran's Bhutarayar, Venmani Mahan's Pooraprabandham etc.
Mahan's and officers
Professor Mahan's lectures and writings about military fortifications and strategy were instrumental in the conduct of the Civil War by the officers on both sides.
Mahan's and Mahan
The Mahan King, however, committed suicide and left a letter for Onjo, asking him to take in Mahan's people with kindness and mercy.
He worked quite independently of Captain Mahan, and his chief conclusions were published before Captain Mahan's works appeared.
While the influence of Mahan and West Point on the Civil War remains controversial and neglected, it is not difficult to find many of the Civil War's tactics and strategies presaged in Mahan's work.
Mahan's and Alfred
The United States possessed more naval power and, more significantly, Alfred Thayer Mahan's theories were needed to secure the growing influence of the United States in Latin America.
He graduated just weeks after the publication of the first and last chapters of Alfred Thayer Mahan's classic study, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 in its Japanese translation in July 1890.
Spykman's conception of the Rimland bears greater resemblance to Alfred Thayer Mahan's " debated and debatable zone " than to Mackinder's inner or marginal crescent.
Spykman's conception of the Rimland bears greater resemblance to Alfred Thayer Mahan's " debated and debatable zone " than to Mackinder's inner or marginal crescent.
Moreover, the absolutist perspective was associated with an emphasis on and preference for naval strategy ( emanating from Alfred Thayer Mahan's theories of naval power ) and strategy based on air power, which were both better suited to conflict in East Asia rather than Europe ( 290 ).
Mahan's and –
" Mahan's Forebears: The Debate over Maritime Strategy, 1868 – 1883.
* Project Gutenberg link to Mahan's The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660 – 1783
Mahan's and used
" At Vicksburg, after the envelopment, Grant used a strategy of the central position to defeat his opponent in detail, a Napoleon tactic well-known to Mahan's admirer and Grant's lieutenant WT Sherman, if not Grant himself.
Mahan's and fleet
Mahan's theoretical framework came from Antoine-Henri Jomini, with an emphasis on strategic locations ( such as chokepoints, canals, and coaling stations ), as well as quantifiable levels of fighting power in a fleet.
According to the decisive-battle doctrine, a fleet must not be divided ; Mahan's work encouraged technological improvement in convincing opponents that naval knowledge and strategy remained necessary, but that domination of the seas dictated the necessity of the speed and predictability of the steam engine.
Mahan's and .
" See Mahan's Naval Strategy.
Criticisms of the work focused on Mahan's handling of Nelson's love affair with Lady Emma Hamilton, but it remained the standard biography until the appearance of Carola Oman's Nelson fifty years later.
On the other hand, Mahan's emphasis of sea power as the crucial fact behind Britain's ascension neglected the well-documented roles of diplomacy and armies ; Mahan's theories could not explain the success of terrestrial empires, such as Bismarckian Germany.
This contingency plan is a clear example of the application of Mahan's principles of naval war, with a clear reliance on Jomini's principle of controlling strategic points.
Timeliness contributed no small part to the widespread acceptance and resultant influence of Mahan's views.
Given the very rapid technological changes underway in propulsion ( from coal to oil, from boilers to turbines ), ordnance ( with better fire directors, and new high explosives ) and armor and emergence of new craft such as destroyers and submarines, Mahan's emphasis on the capital ship and the command of the sea came at an opportune moment.
The French were less susceptible to Mahan's theories.
French naval doctrine in 1914 was dominated by Mahan's theory of sea power and therefore geared toward winning decisive battles and gaining mastery of the seas.
He reversed Mahan's theory that command of the sea precedes maritime communications and foresaw the enlarged roles of aircraft and submarines in naval warfare.
Mahan's concept of sea power extended beyond naval superiority ; that in peace time, states should increase production and shipping capacities, acquire overseas possessions — either colonies or privileged access to foreign markets — yet stressed that the number of coal fuel stations and strategic bases should be few, not to drain too many resources from the mother country.
However, one could argue that the IJN did not adhere entirely to Mahan's doctrine, as they did divide their main force from time to time, particularly the extensive division of warships in a complicated battle plan that led to the disaster at Midway, and as such sealed their own defeat.
American war planners failed to appreciate that technological advances in submarines and naval aviation had made Mahan's doctrine obsolete.
In earlier times it was widely celebrated, though by Mahan's time it was seen as less important.
name and became
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