Inventing grand strategy and teaching command : the classic works of Alfred Thayer Mahan reconsidered / Jon Tetsuro Sumida.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sumida, Jon Tetsuro, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sea-power.

Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer), 1840-1914.

Mahan, A. T.

Physical Description:

xix, 164 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Woodrown Wilson Center Press ; Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1997]

Summary:

Between 1890 and 1913, Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan published a series of books on naval warfare in the age of sail, which won a wide readership in his own day and 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 defend international trade. Instead of presenting Mahan as a man who adhered to strategic principles, Sumida shows that he stressed the importance of an officer's judgment and character formed by the study of history. "Inventing Grand Strategy and Teaching Command" includes a subject index to all Mahan's published books and an extensive bibliography. This is a book for scholars and students of military and strategic thinking and is a natural for libraries of U.S. service academies and U.S. armed services agencies and organizations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0801858003

OCLC:

37282006