Lambert, a naval historian, insists that the work of Alfred Thayer Mahan, the nineteenth-century naval officer and historian who is the United States’ greatest naval thinker, has come to be unfairly ...

The new plan calls for six fundamental—and badly needed—changes to America’s ailing shipbuilding sector. In the late 1890s, naval theorist Alfred Thayer Mahan made a compelling argument for the United ...

Americans have Alfred Thayer Mahan to blame for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. They also have Mahan to thank for the attack’s failure. The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) could have landed a ...

The 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 ...

Alfred Thayer Mahan wrote about naval history, strategy, and geopolitics more than 100 years ago, yet, as Benjamin Armstrong points out in 21st Century Mahan: Sound Military Conclusions for the Modern ...

In a speech to a study session of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee on Tuesday, Xi Jinping called for turning China into a maritime power, state media ...

If the U.S. Navy doesn’t grow significantly in size, the outcome could be disastrous for the whole world. Free trade, global capital flows and migration — the root of America’s worldwide power — would ...

This is disturbing. Of late the Naval Diplomat has been praised by air-power groupies air-power-minded colleagues for growing in office. That is, some aviators consider me a convert from the true ...

For too long, the U.S. has lived off the dividends of its Cold War investments. Consider its Navy. In the first years following the Soviet Union's dissolution, the nation closed four public shipyards ...

Today in U.S. 1885 - Capt. 1891 - Baltimore Incident, Valparaiso, Chile. 1940 - Fifth group of 10 destroyers from the Destroyers for Bases Deal turned over to British at Halifax, Canada. 1942 - ...