Alfred Thayer Mahan

Introduction

The United States presently is facing many situations that can be paralleled to the days of the Cold War, when U.S military leaders were met with new and frightening challenges from the Soviet Union. The U.S step up its effort to meet this national strategy issue. Due to the fall of the Soviet Union, America had enter into a peaceful stage were their power was unmatched and threats to its national security had not come into reality. Unfortunately in the 21st century the U.S has been met with a more dangerous era, as the United States now is confronted by various tough challenges that have the potential to grow even more threatening with years to come. The start of the 21st century the U.S was attack on 9/11, and that followed

He is well known as an American naval officer who made a major impact on the navy in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Mahan graduated from the U.S Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., 1859 and went on to serve almost 40 years of active duty in the U.S Navy. He saw action during the Civil War, later he went on to serve on the staff of Admiral J.A.B. Dahlgren, and worked his way up to high rank. Mahan was among the first military theorist to put emphasis on the naval battle and control of the sea as a principle, rather than a secondary or less important aspect of warfare. Mahan published The Influence of Sea Power upon History in 1890. In his book he argued for the dominant importance of sea power in national historical supremacy. The book came during a time were technological advancement was improving in warships. Mahan stressed the interdependence of the military and commercial control of the sea and asserted that the control of seaborne commerce can determine the outcome of wars. Communication and concentration of a fleet were also important to naval strength. The first factor in Mahan’s argument was that the acquisition of colonies and the concomitant production and shipping that made up maritime economies was essential to a state’s prosperity and served as a motivating factor in the policies of a nation adjacent to the sea. The second factor was that history demonstrated the necessity for naval

America is facing one of the most important geopolitical objectives since World War II and at that time it was to prevent the rise of a regional superpower on the Europe and Asia continent. The U.S must not treat China any different in this case if China is on the brink of becoming a regional superpower. The United States should rebalance their strategy in the South China Sea to answer Chinese growing power, that would not only be against China’s increasing assertiveness in the region like contested territorial and maritime space but also against China’s increasing trade and economic takeover. For the last decades the United States has shown its global power through its navy and around the world bases; there increasingly challenges through the rise of new naval power from other superpowers, making much improvement and proliferation of A2/AD capabilities, and piracy. Forces ranging from globalization to regional-power competition are motivating a number of states around the world to invest in maritime capabilities. Following the 1996 Taiwan Strait crisis, during which the United States moved two aircraft carriers to the Strait as a show of force after Chinese aggression, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has prioritized the development of a blue-water navy that rivals the United States’. Additionally, countries including Japan, South Korea, India,