THE INTERESTOF AMERICA IN SEA POWER AND FUTURE |
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A. T. MAHAN action adequate advantages American Anegada Passage arise armies Atlantic blockade Britain British canal Caribbean Sea Central America centres century chiefly Clayton-Bulwer Treaty coast colonies commercial communication continent Cuba defence depends dispute ditions East enemy essential Europe European civilization existence external factor fleet force foreign future Gulf of Mexico Hawaiian ideal ideas importance impulse influence interests islands Isthmian Isthmus Jamaica Key West land latter less maritime material Mediterranean ment merely miles military Mona Passage Monroe doctrine Mosquito Coast movement Napoleon nations natural naval power navy Nicaragua ocean organized ourselves Pacific pass peace political ports position possession preparation present prosperity question reasonable recognized regions result routes Samana Bay sea power seaboard ships shores side sion Spain spirit statesmen strait strategic strength territory tion trade treaty United vital West Windward Passage world at large Yucatan Channel
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Página 268 - ... to the senses in our civilization will be appropriated, even though it be necessary to destroy us, if disarmed, in order to obtain it. Our own civilization less its spiritual element is barbarism; and barbarism will be the civilization of those who assimilate its material progress without imbibing the indwelling spirit. Let us worship peace, indeed, as the goal at which humanity must hope to arrive; but let us not fancy that peace is to be had as a boy wrenches an unripe fruit from a tree. Nor...
Página 121 - I will liken him unto a wise man, that built his house upon a rock; the rain descended, the floods came, the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell not, for it was founded upon a rock.
Página 249 - Ordinary men see the fruits of their action ; the seed sown by men of genius germinates slowly. Centuries elapsed before men understood that Alexander had not merely erected an ephemeral kingdom in the East, but had carried Hellenism to Asia; centuries again elapsed before men understood that...
Página 249 - Had it so happened, our civilization would have hardly stood in any more intimate relation to the Romano-Greek than to the Indian and Assyrian culture. That there is a bridge connecting the past glory of Hellas and Rome with the prouder fabric of modern history...
Página 259 - When we [Americans] begin really to look abroad, and to busy ourselves with our duties to the world at large in our generation — and not before — we shall stretch out our hands to Great Britain, realizing that in unity of heart among the English-speaking races lies the best hope of humanity in the doubtful days ahead.
Página 243 - We stand at the opening of a period when the question is to be settled decisively, though the issue may be long delayed, whether eastern or western civilization is to dominate throughout the earth and control its future. The great task before the world of civilized Christianity...
Página 43 - Marquesas groups, all under European control, except Samoa, in which we have a part influence. To have a central position such as this, and to be alone, having no rival and admitting no alternative throughout an extensive tract, are conditions that at once fix the attention of the strategist — it may be added, of the statesmen of commerce likewise. But to this striking combination is to be added the remarkable relations borne by these singularly placed islands to the greater commercial routes traversing...
Página 245 - ... future, not of our race only, but of the world at large. We are not living in a perfect world, and we may not expect to deal with imperfect conditions by methods ideally perfect. Time and staying power must be secured for ourselves by that rude and imperfect, but not ignoble, arbiter, force, — force potential and force organized, — which so far has won, and still secures, the greatest triumphs of good in the checkered history of mankind. Our material advantages, once noted, will be recognized...
Página 51 - Let us not shrink from pitting a broad self-interest against the narrow selfinterest to which some would restrict us. The demands of our three great seaboards, the Atlantic, the Gulf, and the Pacific, — each for itself, and all for the strength that comes from drawing closer the ties between them, — are calling for the extension, through the Isthmian Canal, of that broad sea common along which, and along which alone, in 1 "The Interest of America in Sea Power," Hawaii and Our Future Sea Power...
Página 194 - ... protection of the national interests or for its own resources. In naval war, coast defence is the defensive factor, the navy the offensive. Coast defence, when adequate, assures the naval commander-in-chief that his base of operations — the dock-yards and coal depots — is secure. It also relieves him and his government, by the protection afforded to the chief commercial centres, from the necessity of considering them, and so leaves the offensive arm perfectly free.