Tag: Isthmus
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Alfred Mahan on National Self-Interests
Alfred Thayer Mahan was a United States Admiral, naval strategist, and historian who’s books, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660–1783 (1890) and The Influence of Sea Power Upon the French Revolution and Empire, 1793–1812 (1892), made him world-famous and perhaps the most influential American author of the nineteenth century. In 1893, during the…