1. what argument does admiral mahan give for having a strong peacetime navy?

Alfred Thayer Mahan was historian and was considered the most influential American author of the nineteenth century.

His views were based in the 17th-century conflicts between the Dutch Republic, England, France and Spain, and the nineteenth-century naval wars between France and Great Britain.

He believed that the power of a nation was associated with the sea.

He said that: Naval strategy has for its end to found, support, and increase, as well in peace as in war, the sea power of a country.

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