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Cpt. alfred thayer mahan12/2/2023 The Life of Nelson: The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain (2 vols., 1897) supplemented the series. The lectures became his sea-power studies: The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783 (1890) The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire, 1793-1812 (2 vols., 1892) and Sea Power in Relation to the War of 1812 (2 vols., 1905). Mahan plunged into the library and wrote lectures that drew heavily on standard classics and the ideas of work of Henri Jomini. Luce (1827-1917) called him in 1884 to lecture in naval history and strategy at the newly established Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. The turning point in Mahan's career came when Superintendent Stephen B. He was well known in military and naval circles, and was a friend and advisor of fellow naval historian President Theodore Roosevelt. He was called from retirement to serve as a member of the Naval War Board for the Spanish-American War, as a delegate to the first Peace Conference at The Hague, as an occasional lecturer at the Naval War College, and as witness before several congressional committees. American recognition followed, with honorary degrees from Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Dartmouth. A decade later he was promoted to rear admiral on the retired list, but signed his many books and articles, "Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan." By the 1890s he had achieved international acclaim, particularly in Britain, where he had been given honorary degrees by Oxford and Cambridge. Mahan was considered below par for seamanship he became commander in 1872 and captain in 1885, and with that rank retired in 1896 after forty years of service. His career as a line officer on blockade duty during the Civil War was uneventful. Naval Academy, graduating in 1859, second in a class of twenty. After attending Columbia College in New York, the son entered the U.S. Mahan was born in West Point, New York his father, Denis Mahan was an influential professor of military tactics at West Point, where he taught many of the generals who commanded in the Civil War. His concept of "sea power" had an enormous influence in shaping the strategic thought of naval officials across the world, especially in the United States, Germany, Japan and Britain. 1, 1914), was the leading military historian in the world in the era before World War I. Prominent alums of "Philo" include Hamilton Fish, Joyce Kilmer, and Thomas Merton.Ĭolumbia's history, as seen by those who have studied, taught, and worked here.Ĭolumbians have changed the world and how we see it.Alfred Thayer Mahan (Sept. Theodore Roosevelt befriended Mahan and subscribed to his theories. Read more about Alfred Thayer Mahan in the Columbia Encyclopedia Although Mahan saw military might as a means for avoiding war, the global growth inspired by his theories very clearly set the stage for World War I. Mahan’s work influenced strategists in other countries as well, leading to naval buildups in England, Germany, and Japan in particular. ships could refuel and protect commerce and even the construction of the Panama Canal, which facilitated the movement of fleets and freight. Navy, which replaced small cruisers with massive battleships and underwent a concomitant change in tactics continued expansion overseas (to the Philippines, Hawaii and other Pacific islands, and the Caribbean), which allowed the creation bases at which U.S. In the United States, Mahan’s theories found a particularly receptive audience in Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt: His work bolstered the case for rapid expansion and reconfiguration of the U.S. It was there, inspired in part by a history of Rome, that he began developing his theories in 1890 he turned his lecture notes into The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783.Īppearing at a time when Japan and the nations of Europe were engaged in a fiercely competitive arms race, Mahan’s work had a singularly profound influence on politics worldwide. A longtime naval officer who cut his teeth on the Union side in the Civil War, Mahan eventually lectured on history and strategy at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I. Mahan studied at Columbia for two years beginning in 1854-he was a member of the Philolexian Society, the campus literary club established in 1802-before decamping for Annapolis, from which he graduated in 1859. an occasional excess, from which recovery is easy."īy arguing that sea power-the strength of a nation’s navy-was the key to strong foreign policy, Alfred Thayer Mahan shaped American military planning and helped prompt a worldwide naval race in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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