Alfred Thayer Mahan was a United States Navy officer and historian whose 1890 study The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783 argued that a concentrated battle fleet commanding the open sea, not commerce raiding or coastal defense, is the decisive instrument of national power. His doctrine shaped the naval building programs of the United States, Britain, Germany and Japan into the twentieth century, and this atlas cites him as the theorist behind its own Sea Power Doctrine entry. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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RankRear Admiral, United States Navy 1 Defining ContributionFounded modern sea power doctrine, arguing that command of the sea by a concentrated battle fleet is the decisive instrument of national power. 1 Notable WorkThe Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783 (1890) 1 Alfred Thayer Mahan
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A United States Navy officer and historian whom John Keegan called 'the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century.'
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died in Washington, D.C., of heart failure on December 1, 1914
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The primary mission of a navy was to secure the command of the sea, which would permit the maintenance of sea communications for one's own ships while denying their use to the enemy.
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Naval strategic thinkers, such as Sir Julian Corbett (1854-1922) and Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840-1914), wrote that naval conflicts were won primarily by decisive battles, but also by blockade.
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