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The Purchase of the Virgin Islands in 1917: Mahan and the American Strategy in the Caribbean Sea
February 3, 2022
Hans Christian Bjerg Independent Historian, Author, and Lecturer Readers of American and Danish history have considered the American purchase of the former Danish West Indies, The Virgin Islands, in 1916-17, as an isolated political event with a short previous history. Danish historians usually explain the sale to the US as mostly due to financial reasons. … CONTINUE READING ❯
Alfred and Theodore Go to Hawai’i: The Value of Hawai’i in the Maritime Strategic Thought of Alfred Thayer Mahan
May 26, 2016
The Royal Military College of Canada “… [W]ithout some such governmental care as is implied by an organized institution, it is vain to hope for the development of the art of naval war.” – Alfred Thayer Mahan, Captain, U.S.N. ((Alfred Thayer Mahan (President, US Naval War College) to the Secretary of the Naval Institute, 27 … CONTINUE READING ❯