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<p>"This is a brilliant and penetrating study which revises a great deal our commonly accepted assumptions about Mahan's arguments on the influence of seapower and on naval strategy in general. It is certain to provoke great debate." -- Paul M. Kennedy, Dilworth Professor of History and Director, International Security Studies, Yale University</p> <p>Between 1890 and 1913, Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan published a series of books on naval warfare in the age of sail, which won a wide readership in his own day and established his reputation as the founder of modern strategic history. But Mahan's two principal arguments have been gravely misunderstood ever since, according to Jon Tetsuro Sumida. Instead of representing Mahan as an advocate of national naval supremacy, Sumida shows him asserting that only a multinational naval consortium could defend international trade. Instead of presenting Mahan as a man who adhered to strategic principles, Sumida shows that he stressed the importance of an officer's judgment and character formed by the study of history.</p> <p>Inventing Grand Strategy and Teaching Command includes a subject index to all Mahan's published books and an extensive biblio

Author

Sumida, Professor Jon Tetsuro

Publisher

Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801858000

Subjects

Military, History, Science