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Alfred Thayer Mahan, born on September 27, 1840 in West Point, New York was son of dean of the faculty at the United States Military Academy and one of the most important naval historians and strategists of his time. Although both Philip A. Crowl and Paul M. Kennedy have their own opinions on the degree to which Mahan influenced society and naval doctrine as a strategist and historian, the validity and brilliance of some of his ideas ca ....
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.... objectivity, nor any claim to having reached his conclusions on the basis of exhaustive research." Crowl seems to think that much of Mahan's theory was based on whim stemming from his "inner conscious" which turned quickly turned into a final conclusions with out any real proof supporting their validity. Mahan, according to Crowl was constantly confusing his necessary with his sufficient causes. Crowl for example said that sea power was the necessary cause, possibly even th ....
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