The Interest of America in International Conditions
The Interest of America in International Conditions
Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer), 1840-1914
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In these unstable conditions there is only one force capable of exerting an effectual check. That is the British navy. If maintained in due preponderance, this ii2 The Interest of America is capable of perpetuating the role played by Great Britain for two centuries: that of a determinative factor. It possesses this power for two reasons: that it is not the creation of an alliance, but of a single state, power concentrated in one hand; and that that state, in addition to insular security, still ...possesses a wealth adequate to the maintenance of what has come in our day to be called the "Two Power Standard. " This Two Power Standard is simply a new definition of an old idea. Throughout the eighteenth century, es- pecially about the time of the American War of Independence, it was an accepted maxim of British statesmen that the navy must be greater than that of the combined fleets of the two Bourbon monarchies, France and Spain. The alliance between these two — the Family Compact — was in form perpetual, and in substance as- sured, under the conditions of those times; In International Conditions 113 in this resembling the present conjunction of Austria and Germany.
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