The Interest of America in International ConditionsLittle, Brown, 1910 - 212페이지 Four years before the outbreak of the First World War, the world famous naval historian and strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan warned of the approaching conflict. In The Interest of America in International Conditions, Mahan recognized that Germany's effort to add a strong navy to its already powerful land army threatened to upset the balance of power that had prevented a major war in Europe since 1815. He understood that American security could be endangered if Germany dominated the European continent. |
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... hundred miles wide . It is true that merchant steamers may protect themselves in some measure by skirting the ... hundred miles wide , and in places only three hundred . In case of war between the two countries , no German ship , as ...
... hundred miles wide . It is true that merchant steamers may protect themselves in some measure by skirting the ... hundred miles wide , and in places only three hundred . In case of war between the two countries , no German ship , as ...
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... hundred miles distant . A Baltic blockade would be a much more serious undertaking . We see here the military explanation of the Kiel Canal , connecting the Baltic with the North Sea at the mouth of the Elbe . Ships of war and commerce ...
... hundred miles distant . A Baltic blockade would be a much more serious undertaking . We see here the military explanation of the Kiel Canal , connecting the Baltic with the North Sea at the mouth of the Elbe . Ships of war and commerce ...
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... hundred miles of Cuba , on one side or the other ; a circumstance which made it intolerable to the United States that the island should go into the hands of any powerful naval state . The change of political tenure and the developed ...
... hundred miles of Cuba , on one side or the other ; a circumstance which made it intolerable to the United States that the island should go into the hands of any powerful naval state . The change of political tenure and the developed ...
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... hundred ; that of Germany only three hundred . Moreover , the dependence of Great Britain upon the sea is absolute ; she has not , like Germany , any continental fron- tiers by which to receive supplies . The river Rhine by itself ...
... hundred ; that of Germany only three hundred . Moreover , the dependence of Great Britain upon the sea is absolute ; she has not , like Germany , any continental fron- tiers by which to receive supplies . The river Rhine by itself ...
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... hundred thousand annually . As re- gards numbers and quality , therefore , the army can hold the lead it has , while as against a possible combination of other states it has the recognized military advan- tage of central In ...
... hundred thousand annually . As re- gards numbers and quality , therefore , the army can hold the lead it has , while as against a possible combination of other states it has the recognized military advan- tage of central In ...
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action Adriatic advantage Ægean alliance ambitions American annexations arise army assured attitude Austria Austria-Hungary balance of power Balkan blockade Britain British Islands British navy centuries China Chinese circum coast colonies combination concentrated concerned concert of Europe constituted contemporary coöperation defense Delbrück dependence East effective Empire England Entente equal equilibrium Europe European family exist external policy factor fleet force formal France German Empire German navy Germany Germany's independence individual industrial and commercial influence INTEREST OF AMERICA international relations Italy Japan Japan and Russia Japanese Kiel Canal less maintenance Manchuria markets matter means measure ment military Monroe Doctrine mutual Napoleon national power naval necessary necessity North Sea numbers Open Door opportunity organization Pacific particular population position possession preponderance present progress question recent recognized result rivalry Russia SEA POWER sentiment Spain strength superior supremacy territory tion to-day tradition Triple Entente United unity Western world politics
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9 페이지 - The evils produced by his wickedness were felt in lands where the name of Prussia was unknown ; and, in order that he might rob a neighbor whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel, and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America.
80 페이지 - It is as true now as when Washington penned the words, and will always be true, that it is vain to expect nations to act consistently from any motive other than that of interest.
42 페이지 - The old predatory instinct that he should take who has the power survives . . . and moral force is not sufficient to determine issues unless supported by physical. Governments are corporations, and corporations have no souls ; Governments, moreover, are trustees, and as such must put first the lawful interests of their wards — their own people.
162 페이지 - ... at the time, it could rightly be considered so only because the speaker was then on active duty. Captain Mahan, the spokesman for Sea Power and in more specific ways for the United States Navy, had pronounced himself several times before in the same sense, when for example in 1910 he declared that: "A German navy, supreme by the fall of Great Britain, with a supreme German Army able to spare readily a large expeditionary force for over-sea operations, is one of the possibilities of the future.
192 페이지 - The dilemma of Great Britain is that she cannot help commanding the approaches to Germany by the mere possession of the very means essential to her own existence as a state of the first order"- and, we may add, to her national independence.
8 페이지 - Congress to a newly elected colleague, "to avoid service on a fancy committee like that of foreign affairs if he wished to retain his hold upon his constituents because they cared nothing about international questions." In the Alaskan boundary dispute Canadians felt that they had been exploited by the United States and Great Britain, with results that were shown in the emphatic rejection of the reciprocity proposals of the United States in 1911.
83 페이지 - Such predominance forces a nation to seek markets, and, where possible, to control them to its own advantage by preponderant force, the ultimate expression of which is possession. . . . From this flow two results: the attempt to possess, and the organization of force by which to maintain possession already achieved.
184 페이지 - States, 1900, p. 299. the countries concerned obtain, by positions, by predominant force, by intrigue, or by the negligence of rivals, a preponderance, destroying that balance which the Open Door requires. Equilibrium will ensure quiet. Thus the Open Door, which in principle has received the adhesion of the Western community of nations, does not stand isolated, as an unrelated doctrine, but is a positive and formulated attitude affecting, however unconsciously of its range, the general policy of...
74 페이지 - The definitive aim, therefore, which Germany sets herself is not to acquire vast colonies, but to enforce such a position that German influence, German capital, German commerce, German engineering, and German intelligence can compete on equal terms with other nations in those countries and among those populations which are outside the pale of European civilization.