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Discourse on the Strategic Value of a Point, by Alfred T. Mahan

 Digital Record
Identifier: RG15_01_21_01

Dates

  • Creation: 1896

Creator

Summary

Lecture given by Captain A. T. Mahan and the Naval War College in which he stated that the strategic value of any point depended on three principal conditions which included its position, its military strength (offensive and defensive), and the resources of the place itself and the surrounding country.

Extent

4.1 Megabytes ; 16 pages