![]() The first lies between 18, the period during which Mahan was developing his initial strategic appraisals of Hawai’i. I examine the issue of Hawaiian military value assessment in two blocks of time. This essay focuses on the Mahanian interpretation of the military value of Hawai’i rather than the political aspects of the annexation process (including the various motivations behind the annexation campaign run by Theodore Roosevelt and his supporters). Hawai’i, as an island, a current state, and as the source of some of the United States’ greatest cultural treasures, brought economic and cultural expansion to the nation but as valuable as it is in these respects, it was very keenly perceived as a military asset from the outset. Whatever the incidental benefits the annexation of Hawai’i brought to the United States, the primary value the Hawaiian archipelago held for the nation was military-strategic. “It is not too much to say that Captain Mahan was doing for Naval Science what Jomini did for Military Science.” ![]() “… ithout some such governmental care as is implied by an organized institution, it is vain to hope for the development of the art of naval war.” Theodore Roosevelt and Domestic Perceptions of the Annexation of Hawai’i – The Short StoryĬandidate (Civilian), Master of Arts in War Studies Mahanian Maritime Theory Pertaining to the Value of Hawai’i (1892-1895)
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