Naval Power Quotes
Most Americans do not realize that our naval forces were disbanded after the Revolution and even the Constitution did not require a navy. We had some Federal revenue cutters to interdict smugglers but no warships and no permanent sailors or officers. The Barbary Pirates had an incredible extortion racket going in the Mediterranean. If nations would pay them an annual sum each year, they would not attack and seize merchant ships of that country and sell the ships and goods while holding the sailors for ransom. See {640850},86703,{640846} & {640848}
He was referring to attacking the Barbary States. The Barbary Pirates had an incredible extortion racket going in the Mediterranean. If nations would pay them an annual sum each year, they would not attack and seize merchant ships of that country and sell the ships and goods while holding the sailors for ransom. See {640846}.
Germany had world power aspirations before Adolf Hitler.
Germany had a very small and insignificant navy. It was Tirpitz who persuaded the nation to develop sea power.
He didn’t succeed until Mahan wrote his marvelous treatise.
There were few military thinkers at that time who would agree with Goebbels on this point.
Many people not only disagreed with him but thought is analogy was also wrong. Most of the nations in the world do not have a navy. The few that do, have never claimed that the navy was deployed for civilian purposes. They did so to protect their merchant ships, prevent blockades and to project power—all military activities. Critics observe that few nations would risk a situation where their enemies might cyberattack them and they would have no defenses and could not counterattack. So other nations will respond to large cyberdefenses deployed by some countries with an “arms race” of cyberdefense. The reason the United States added 4000 personnel to Cyber Command was because China and Russia had deployed cyberdefense capability. Also cyberdefense capability produces cyberattack capability. These critics argue that cyberspace is already militarized.
This quotation illustrates Jefferson’s isolationist streak. He would have abandoned all American oceangoing ships and thereby avoid war. When he became President, however, he rethought his earlier position and was aggressive in developing the American Navy, using it at the risk of war.
