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Description: Go to teamseas.org and help us remove plastic from the seas I bet most of you have never heard of Alfred Thayer Mahan, but he revolutionized naval strategy, not just for the US, but the entire world. In fact, his 1890 book set off an arms race to create the most powerful battleships that only ended with a World War. All that was to control the waters for the sake of commerce. And today, I join a whole bunch of YouTubers who want to draw attention to a new crisis in our international waters, and while it certainly won’t have as catastrophic of implications as the arms race, this has permanent global effects. Plastics pollute our waters, and we want to do something about that. So go to team seas dot org, which is linked in the description, where you can contribute to removing plastic from the oceans. ------------------------------------------------------------ See pinned comment and its replies for notes, responses, and errata *Bibliography* Alfred T. Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783, 12th ed. (1890; Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, 1918). gutenberg.org/etext/13529 Alfred T. Mahan, Presidential address delivered before the American Historical Association meeting in Philadelphia, 26 December 1902. Published in Annual Report of the American Historical Association (1902) 49-63. historians.org/about-aha-and-membership/aha-history-and-archives/presidential-addresses/alfred-thayer-mahan Dirk Bönker, Militarism in a Global Age: Naval Ambitions in Germany and the United States (Ithaca, N.York: Cornell University Press, 2012). amzn.to/2Z14rTq Christopher L. Connery, “Ideologies of Land and Sea: Alfred Thayer Mahan, Carl Schmitt, and the Shaping of Global Myth Elements,” Boundary 2 28, no. 2 (Summer 2001): 173-201. Pekka Korhonen, “The Pacific Age in World History,” Journal of World History 7, no. 1 (1996): 41-70. Huw W. G. Lewis-Jones, “Displaying Nelson: 'Navalism' and the Exhibition of 1891,” International Journal of Maritime History 17, no. 1 (2005): 29-67. Richard Hart Sinnreich, “Awkward Partners: Military History and American Military Education,” in The Past as Prologue: The Importance of History to the Military Profession, eds. Williamson Murray and Richard Hart Sinnreich (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 55-77. amzn.to/3DW1hzz ------------------------------------------------------------ Connected episodes Historians Who Changed History: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjnwpaclU4wXNnXWfGY7Tov24iW7t_UuM Midway review: youtu.be/pm_2iAqWScI How we almost blew up the world on accident: youtu.be/mVIFmAae_8w ------------------------------------------------------------ SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VIDEOS: youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=CynicalCypher88 Support the channel through PATREON: patreon.com/CynicalHistorian or by purchasing MERCH: teespring.com/stores/the-cynical-historian LET'S CONNECT: Twitch: twitch.tv/cynicalhistorian Facebook: facebook.com/cynicalcypher88 Subreddit: reddit.com/r/CynicalHistory Discord: discord.gg/Ukthk4U Twitter: twitter.com/Cynical_History Chapters 0:00 intro 1:50 body 12:03 conclusion 13:05 outro