The chapter headings in Mahan on Naval Warfare cover historical study, professional training, naval operations, and national policy. The opening sections move from the relation between theory and practice to strategy, tactics, logistics, central position, communications, and concentration. Later sections cover commerce destruction, blockade, command of the sea, the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean, and competing British and American systems of naval administration. Historical cases run from eighteenth-century fleet warfare through Trafalgar, the War of 1812, Santiago, Port Arthur, and Tsushima. Overseas bases, Hawaii, the Monroe Doctrine, Anglo-American interests, and the political and moral dimensions of war extend this treatment of sea power.
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The strategic range inside a Mahan collection
The book's contents place Mahan's battle writing inside a much wider programme of strategy, logistics, administration, commerce, communications, and national policy.