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Alfred Thayer Mahan - Term Papers

Alfred Thayer Mahan

, born on September 27, 1840 in West Point, New York was son of dean of the faculty at the United States Military Academy and one of the most important naval historians and strategists of his time. Although both Philip A. Crowl and Paul M. Kennedy have their own opinions on the degree to which Mahan influenced society and naval doctrine as a strategist and historian, the validity and brilliance of some of his ideas can't be denied.
Mahan was a firm believer that sea power was the single most important factor in determining national dominance. He said sea power was the command of the sea through naval superiority. His second important principle concentrated on the importance of shipping ...

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a light dawning on his ‘inner consciousness'; the insight hardened into a predetermined
conclusion; facts were then mustered as illustration and proof." Crowl goes on to argue that "There was no pretense on the historian's part to scientific objectivity, nor any claim to having reached his conclusions on the basis of exhaustive research." Crowl seems to think that much of Mahan's theory was based on whim stemming from his "inner conscious" which turned quickly turned into a final conclusions with out any real proof supporting their validity. Mahan, according to Crowl was constantly confusing his necessary with his sufficient causes. Crowl for example said that sea power was the necessary cause, possibly even the most important, but not the sufficient cause in Britain's domination of France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Crowl was a firm believer that the military operations of England and its allies on the European continent as well as successes of ...

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Added: 3/2/2007 05:15:04 AM
Category: Biographies
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 1150
Pages: 5

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