Posted by Jon on July 21, 2006 at 14:37:57 from 199.159.117.62 user Jon.
In Reply to: Re: "A well-known book" posted by Jock on July 21, 2006 at 08:36:39:
I'll suggest it was Alfred Thayer Mahan, of the US Navy, Commander of the YS Naval War College, and a noted strategist and historian of the latter 19th century. His writings had a significant impact on global naval thought for many decades.