...only be suppressed by a naval force more powerful than our own. "It is not," says Captain Mahan, " the taking of individual ships or convoys, be they few or many, that strikes down the money power of the nation ; it is the possession of that overbearing power on the sea which drives the enemy's flag...

...a navy otherwise powerful, it is well. ... It is not the taking of indvidual ships or convoys . . . that strikes down the money power of a nation ; it...on the sea which drives the enemy's flag from it." Blockade is denned as " the shutting up of a place, particularly a port, harbor, or line of coast,...

...only be suppressed by a naval force more powerful than our own. " It is not," says Captain Mahan, " the taking of individual ships or convoys, be they few or many, that strikes down the money power of the nation ; it is the possession of that overbearing power on the sea which drives the enemy's "THE...

...concentration offeree able to drive enemy naval and merchant ships from the seas. "It is not," Mahan concluded, "the taking of individual ships or convoys, be they...it, or allows it to appear only as a fugitive; and • Ibid., pp. 288-289, 533, 538 IT. "Loe.cit. " Ibid., p. 539. " Influence of Sea Power upon Ike Frmck...

..."compels peace." Wars are won by the economic strangulation of the enemy from the sea — by the assertion of that "overbearing power on the sea which drives...from it, or allows it to appear only as a fugitive." They are lost by failure to prevent such strangulation of one's own country. Control of maritime commerce...

...the basic form of superior naval power exhibited in military confrontation: what he referred to as "that overbearing power on the sea which drives the...enemy's flag from it, or allows it to appear only as a fugitive."15 The other side of sea power concerns the sources of commercial greatness, namely "(1)...

...No statesman in early modern Europe equated seapower with complete naval mastery in all areas, with 'that overbearing power on the sea which drives the...from it, or allows it to appear only as a fugitive' - the influential definition offered in 1890 by AT Mahan in The influence of seapower upon history,...

...Mahan employed the term "sea power" in two different senses, to mean either dominant armed strength at sea ("which drives the enemy's flag from it, or allows it to appear only as a fugitive") or, more widely, to describe the full range of benefits that maritime efforts could secure: commerce,...

...material of historical figures and images essential to the story were derived directly from the internet. "It is not the taking of individual ships or convoys,...from it, or allows it to appear only as a fugitive. " --Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, USN 1840-1914 THIS MUST BE SAID The crackling roar of World War Two...

...mit direkten Ansatz einzelner, wenn auch zahlreicher, Schiffe auf diesen Seehandel zufriedengeben: „It is not the taking of individual ships or convoys,...the sea which drives the enemy's flag from it[...]." 60 Denn: Stehen sich zwei Schlachtflotten gegenüber, so wird entweder die eine wesentlich stärker...