In the late 19th century, one naval officer reshaped how the world understood power itself—not through speeches or battlefield heroics, but through a book. Alfred Thayer Mahan, a U.S. Navy captain and historian, argued that national greatness depended on control of the seas. His landmark work, The Influence of Sea Power upon History, would go on to transform military strategy across continents.

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