Sea power doctrine, associated above all with the US naval officer and historian Alfred Thayer Mahan, holds that a nation's greatness rests on command of the sea, won and held by a concentrated battle fleet that denies an enemy the use of the oceans while securing them for the nation's own trade and power projection. Mahan set the doctrine out fully in The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783 (1890).
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Core ClaimA nation's greatness rests on command of the sea, won by a concentrated battle fleet that denies the enemy the use of the oceans while securing them for its own trade and power projection. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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