The Sea Power of the Future: An Examination of the Drones Impact on Maritime
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- Examines the impact of drones on maritime dominance and the future of sea power.
- Highlights that naval warfare study focuses on enduring principles rather than transient technologies.
- Asserts that sea power depends on control of sea lines of communication, even as the means to exert control evolves.
- Emphasizes the principles of concentration, strategic positioning, and securing vital arteries as pillars that endure beyond novelty.
- Based on the writing by Alfred Thayer Mahan.
The Sea Power of the Future: An Examination of the Drones Impact on Maritime
- 1. The Sea Power of the Future: An Examination of the Drone’s Impact on Maritime Dominance Alfred Thayer Mahan Rear-Admiral, US Navy Author: The Influence of Sea Power upon History 18401914
- 2. Gentlemen, the study of naval warfare is the study of enduring principles, not transient technologies. Sea power, as I have long argued, rests upon control of the sea lines of communication. This remains true even as the means of asserting that control evolves. The principles of concentration, of strategic position, of securing vital arteries – these are pillars that do not crumble with every passing novelty.