Tag: grand strategy

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

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…


The Chinese Regime Will Not Change Its Grand Strategy

Commentary States possess grand strategies, that is, how they define their interests, the threats to those interests, and the means that they employ to advance their interests in the face of threats. Additionally, states make strategic choices to address the threats they face and to advance their interests in the ever-changing circumstances of international politics….


Anchorage Meeting Shows Need for US Strategy to Confront China

Commentary The four great triumphs of international grand strategy in the last century were all conceived and executed by American statesmen. First, starting in 1940, Franklin Delano Roosevelt devised the strategy whereby the United States gave all aid short of war to Britain and Canada, the democracies fighting Nazism, and implicitly convinced Adolf Hitler that…