

Therefore the history of sea power, while embracing in its broad sweep all that tends to make a people great upon the sea or by the sea, is largely a military history. Mahan mengatakan, Laut untuk kehidupan, SDA banyak terdapat di laut, o leh karena harus. On the other hand, wars arising from other causes have been greatly modified in their conduct and issue by the control of the sea.

It was an anniversary, unfortunately, that.

The term ‘Indo-Pacific’ evolved in recent. The destiny of the world will be decided on its waters. This ocean will be the key to the seven seas in the 21st Century. In his opening remarks on naval strategy at the Naval War College, Mahan said that 'like the A, B of the Greeks, which gave its name to the whole of their alphabet and ours, concentration sums up in itself all the other factors, the entire alphabet, of military efficiency in war. December 1, 2014, was the 100th anniversary of the death of Alfred Thayer Mahan, the renowned naval historian, strategist, and geopolitical theorist. Alfred Thayer Mahan, eventually an Admiral in the US Navy, is often quoted for saying in 1897, Whoever controls the Indian Ocean will dominate Asia. Mahan was the son of a professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. The clash of interests, the angry feelings roused by conflicting attempts thus to appropriate the larger share, if not the whole, of the advantages of commerce, and of distant unsettled commercial regions, led to wars. foundation of Mahans theory of naval strategy. Alfred Thayer Mahan, (born September 27, 1840, West Point, New York, U.S.died December 1, 1914, Quogue, New York), American naval officer and historian who was a highly influential exponent of sea power in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. To secure to one's own people a disproportionate share of such benefits, every effort was made to exclude others, either by the peaceful legislative methods of monopoly or prohibitory regulations, or, when these failed, by direct violence. Conveyed in works such as The Influence of Sea Power. (Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1890: reprint, New York: Dover Publications, 1987), pp. 28 As early as his publication of The Influence of Sea Power upon History in 1890, Mahan focused on the interplay between naval and economic power. The maritime strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan continues to shape world politics long after his death-but not the way he would have expected. The profound influence of sea commerce upon the wealth and strength of countries was clearly seen long before the true principles which governed its growth and prosperity were detected. Mahan implied that powerful battle fleets should be used to crush 1 1 Mahan, Alfred Thayer, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History 1660-1783. “The history of sea power is largely, though by no means solely, a narrative of contests between nations, of mutual rivalries, of violence frequently culminating in war.
