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"In the last decade of the nineteenth century, the American naval theorist Alfred Thayer Mahan broke new ground in military literature with his book The Influence of Sea Power on History 1660-1783. His principal intellectual advance was to describe the connection between war, sea power, and the economic prospects of a nation " (Alfred Thayer Mahan, The Influence of Seapower on History 1660-1783, (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1890) Chapter One sets forth Mahan's basic logic. However, it should be noted that he subsequently recognized that nations without significant shipping interests may also build navies. See A.T. Mahan, Naval Strategy,