James Holmes,TNI
Theodore Roosevelt was an avowed Mahanian. He was also a closet Maoist! Or at least, his convictions about strategies for lesser competitors ran parallel to those made well-liked by Mao Zedong during the Chinese Civil War and moment Sino-Japanese War, or as transposed to marine warfare by the Great Helmsman's saltwater-minded successors.Nor,as it turns out, should this synchronicity come as any surprise. Both Roosevelt and Mao coveted conventional triumphs on oceanic battlegrounds. The chief dissimilarity: spared decades of internal strife and foreign invasion, and Roosevelt's America had trodden farther...
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