Open AccessThe Influence of Sea Power Upon History 1660-1783
Author(s) -
I.C. Little
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
scientia militaria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2309-9682
pISSN - 2224-0020
DOI - 10.5787/14-1-536
Subject(s) - meaning (existential) , feeling , power (physics) , great power , history , environmental ethics , political science , philosophy , ancient history , law , epistemology , china , physics , quantum mechanics
The author of this book, Alfred Thatcher Mahan, is to naval warfare what Clausewitz is to land warfare and his books are the source of many quotations and arguments over strategy, and above all, the meaning of seapower. It was thus with a feeling of renewing an old acquaintanceship that I approached this attractively bound green and gold book