The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783
The Influence of Sea Power upon History, published in 1890 by Alfred Thayer Mahan, a captain in the United States Navy and lecturer at the new Naval War College, is the book that persuaded governments from Washington to Berlin and Tokyo to build battle fleets. Mahan argues that command of the sea decided the fate of nations, and he demonstrates it through the wars of the sailing-ship era, from the Anglo-Dutch wars of the 1660s through the struggles of Louis XIV, the War of the Spanish Succession, the Seven Years' War and the American Revolution, with a long introductory chapter on the elements of sea power. The naval narratives are clear, and the strategic doctrine shaped the twentieth century. It is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, with the first chapter free.
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