'For nearly 200 years, the relationship between American power, American industry & the US Navy has been understood as vital to maintaining American economic prosperity and preserving the US's preeminent place among great powers,' Miles Smith writes.
180305-N-RG482-429 ROTA, Spain Lt. Danielle Garbarino stands on the flight deck of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ross as the ship passes the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Donald Cook at Naval Station Rota, Spain. Ross, forward-deployed to Rota, is on its sixth patrol in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of regional allies and partners and U.S. national security interests in Europe.
For Mahan, the history of sea power was largely “a narrative of contests between nations, of mutual rivalries, of violence frequently culminating in war.” In order to “secure to one's own people a disproportionate share,” Mahan wrote, “every effort was made to exclude others, either by the peaceful legislative methods of monopoly or prohibitory regulations, or, when these failed, by direct violence.
For nearly 200 years, the relationship between American power, American industry, and the U.S. Navy has been understood as vital to maintaining American economic prosperity and preserving the United States's preeminent place among great powers. Former President Theodore Roosevelt inaugurated an era of U.S. naval power at a time when the Royal Navy and the Imperial German Navy battled for supremacy on the high seas.
Two world wars confirmed bullish attitudes about the U.S. Navy. In the aftermath of World War II and the industrial buildup that accompanied the war effort, the U.S. Navy became the largest in the world and assumed the lion’s share of the responsibility for keeping global seas open for commerce and trade in the wake of the collapse of the British Empire.that they’ve taken the freedom of the seas for granted.
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