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27, in 1840 the U.S. Navy strategic thinker Alfred - Mahan Sheng at West Point, the town in New York State in 1859, graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy during the Civil War in the Navy, he served as captain in 1886, he was appointed Dean of the College of Naval Operations in 1890, published a monograph "command of the sea of ​​history, 1660 -1783 "(1890) 1892, published a two-volume book" command of the sea on the impact of the 1793-1812 French Revolution and Empire. Mahan naval supremacy theory outlined in the book, advocating the establishment of a powerful navy, claiming that there is no strong Navy, no country in the international arena can not establish authority. Mahan's naval supremacy theory adapted to the needs of imperialist expansion overseas, have a great impact on the building of national defense of the United States and other Western countries he had predicted in the First World War EU powers and the German navy doomed to failure. Mahan died in Washington in December 1, 1914.