Category: Alfred Thayer Mahan

Profiles in History: Alfred Thayer Mahan: The Man Who Understood Sea Power

January 21, 2023
Alfred Thayer MahanAmerican EssenceArts & CultureBrightgrand strategyHistoryJohn Keeganseapowerstrategy
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Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840–1914) was born in West Point, New York, and was the son of a professor of civil and military engineering at the U.S. Military Academy. Despite his proximity to the military academy, it was the Navy that transfixed the young Mahan. After attending Columbia College in New York City, he was recommended…

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Under Construction: Repairing Western Civilization One Reader at a Time

August 23, 2022
Alfred Thayer MahanAnthony EsolenArts & CulturebooksBrightHarriet Beecher StoweLife & TraditionThe Great Books of the Western World
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When we think of the world’s most influential books, a host of titles might come to mind: the epics of the ancient world, the Bible, the Quran, the philosophies left to us by the likes of Plato, Aristotle, and Marcus Aurelius, and so on down through the centuries. The possibilities appear inexhaustible. If we narrow…

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