AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR
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bolstering US industrial output
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strengthening US naval capacity
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improving relations with US allies
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increasing funding for the US Air Force
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Detailed explanation-1: -Alfred Thayer Mahan supported moving the United States into a position of power by-strengthening U.S. naval capacity. Missionaries played a role in the territorial expansion of the United States by-operating abroad in foreign locations such as Hawaii.
Detailed explanation-2: -Mahan wanted the United States to build a blue-water navy. He wanted the nation to promote and subscribe to policies that would require the development of a large navy consistent with his theories as expressed in The Influence of Sea Power. As he later wrote: Navies are instruments of international relations . . .
Detailed explanation-3: -Alfred Thayer Mahan wrote an influential thesis declaring that throughout history, those that controlled the seas controlled the world. He argued that acquiring naval bases at strategic points around the world was imperative. Before 1890, American lands consisted of little more than the contiguous states and Alaska.
Detailed explanation-4: -Mahan contended that with a command of the sea, even if local and temporary, naval operations in support of land forces could be of decisive importance. He also believed that naval supremacy could be exercised by a transnational consortium acting in defense of a multinational system of free trade.