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Which makes it hard to understand how so many hardliners in the
world of energy could pay so little attention to the fact that control
over the framing of our nation's industrial strategy has been
captured by a group of radical and deeply Pollyannaish internationalists
whose beliefs about how nations interact politically can make Norman
Angell look like Alfred Thayer Mahan. And, as the great theorist of
sea power, Alfred Thayer Mahan, once said, "The study of history
lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and
practice. Cadet Stephen Dodson Ramseur
shared a more serious attraction to his civilian friend David Schenck in
the 1850s, and Alfred Thayer Mahan sent very demonstrative and
affectionate letters to Samuel Ashe for forty years after the two met as
midshipmen at the Naval Academy during the late 1850s. |
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Alfred Thayer Mahan - United States naval officer and historian (1840-1914)