The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present And Future
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In the elasticity and flexibleness with which thedogma thus has accommodated itself to varying conditions, rather thanin the strict wording of the original statement, is to be seen theessential characteristic of a living principle--the recognition, namely, that not merely the interests of individual citizens, but theinterests of the United States as a nation, are bound up with regionsbeyond the sea, not part of our own political domain, in whichtherefore, under some imaginable circumstances, we... may be forced totake action.
It is important to recognize this, for it will help clear away theerror from a somewhat misleading statement frequently made, --that theUnited States needs a navy for defence only, adding often, explanatorily, for the defence of our own coasts. Now in a certainsense we all want a navy for defence only. It is to be hoped that theUnited States will never seek war except for the defence of herrights, her obligations, or her necessary interests. In that sense ourpolicy may always be defensive only, although it may compel us attimes to steps justified rather by expediency--the choice of thelesser evil--than by incontrovertible right.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
In the elasticity and flexibleness with which thedogma thus has accommodated itself to varying conditions, rather thanin the strict wording of the original statement, is to be seen theessential characteristic of a living principle--the recognition, namely, that not merely the interests of individual citizens, but theinterests of the United States as a nation, are bound up with regionsbeyond the sea, not part of our own political domain, in whichtherefore, under some imaginable circumstances, we... may be forced totake action.
It is important to recognize this, for it will help clear away theerror from a somewhat misleading statement frequently made, --that theUnited States needs a navy for defence only, adding often, explanatorily, for the defence of our own coasts. Now in a certainsense we all want a navy for defence only. It is to be hoped that theUnited States will never seek war except for the defence of herrights, her obligations, or her necessary interests. In that sense ourpolicy may always be defensive only, although it may compel us attimes to steps justified rather by expediency--the choice of thelesser evil--than by incontrovertible right.
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