“Our self-imposed isolation in the matter of markets ... [has] coincided singularly with an actual remoteness of this continent from the life of the rest of the world.” ...

Roosevelt greatly admired naval officer and historian Alfred Thayer Mahan and supported his theory that the United States needed a modern navy to protect its growing interests around the world.

Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, who in the late nineteenth century was one of the nation’s most passionate advocates of a “blue-water” navy, in 1890 warned against “our self-imposed isolation ...

Twenty-one years ago I closed out my very first hefty journal article, over at Comparative Strategy, with an offhand observation that the works of Alfred Thayer Mahan, the fin de siècle American ...