Geography, Technology, and British Naval Strategyin the Dreadnought Era

Authors

Jon Tetsuro Sumida

Abstract

In The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783, Alfred Thayer Mahan ar- gued that the effective deployment of naval force had determined the outcomes of the great European wars of the eighteenth century. Many, if not most, readers believed that this historical survey was the basis of related major arguments that were applicable to the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The first was that naval supremacy was the prerequisite to economic prosperity and international political preeminence.

Recommended Citation

Sumida, Jon Tetsuro (2006) "Geography, Technology, and British Naval Strategyin the Dreadnought Era," Naval War College Review: Vol. 59: No. 3, Article 7.
Available at: https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol59/iss3/7