Inventing Grand Strategy and Teaching Command: The Classic Works of Alfred Thayer Mahan Reconsidered

by Jon Tetsuro Sumida and Professor Jon Tetsuro Sumida

Book Overview

Between 1890 and 1913, Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan published a series of books on naval warfare in the age of sail, which established his reputation as the founder of modern strategic history. But Mahan's two principal arguments have been gravely misunderstood ever since, according to Jon Tetsuro Sumida. Instead of representing Mahan as an advocate of national naval supremacy, Sumida shows him asserting that only a multinational naval consortium could...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801863406
• ISBN13: 9780801863400
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"