(A) Creation of a big, modern navy.
(B) Establishment of fueling bases in the Pacific.
(C) Creation of a canal through Central America.
(D) ** Establishment of a large, modern land army.
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Concept note-1: -“Big Sister” policy aimed to gain Latin American support of U.S. leadership and to open Latin American markets to U.S. products.–Essentially guaranteed U.S. hegemony in Latin America in 1880s.
Concept note-2: -Alfred Thayer Mahan, a naval strategist and the author of The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, argued that national prosperity and power depended on control of the world’s sea-lanes.
Concept note-3: -Alfred Thayer Mahan was a Naval Admiral who was a very effective advocate of imperialism. In the book, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, Mahan claimed that countries with sea power were the great nations of history.
Concept note-4: -Alfred Thayer Mahan was an advocate for sea power and Western imperialism. In 1890, he published The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 in which he argued that a nation’s greatness and prosperity comes from maritime power.