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Alfred Thayer Mahan (/ m ə ˈ h æ n /; September 27, 1840 – December 1, 1914) was a United States naval officer and historian, whom John Keegan called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century."
Alfred Thayer Mahan (born September 27, 1840, West Point, New York, U.S.—died December 1, 1914, Quogue, New York) was an American naval officer and historian who was a highly influential exponent of sea power in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840 1914) was an American naval officer and esteemed naval theorist who served a historic role in defining the U.S. Navy as a significant geopolitical force during the end of the nineteenth century.
May 23, 2018 · Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840-1914), American naval historian and strategist, provided the intellectual and historical foundations for American imperial expansion. Alfred Thayer Mahan was born on Sept. 27, 1840.
Feb 9, 2022 · Written during a period of U.S. naval reform and expansion, Mahan’s research is at once a parochial argument about the need to revitalize U.S. “sea power,” and a broader account of the relationships between the ocean, trade, and national strength.
Alfred Thayer Mahan was born on 27 September 1840 at West Point, New York, where his father, Dennis Hart Mahan, was a distinguished professor of Civil and Military Engineering at...
Dec 30, 2014 · December 1, 2014, was the 100th anniversary of the death of Alfred Thayer Mahan, the renowned naval historian, strategist, and geopolitical theorist.
In 1890, Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, a lecturer in naval history and the president of the United States Naval War College, published The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783, a revolutionary analysis of the importance of naval power as a factor in the rise of the British Empire.
In the 1880s, the naval officer Alfred Thayer Mahan spearheaded his concept of sea power, or the ability to control the ocean for economic and military gain.
By 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.
