In 1883 the United States Navy was in pitiful condition, largely a relic from the Civil War, it had merely 90 vessels in the naval registry, more than 1/3 of which were made of wood. In an age of steel warships and large navies, the U.S. fleet was the smallest and most obsolescent fleet of any industrialized nation. The state of affairs in the navy was atrocious and many officers lobbied for the expansion of the U.S. Navy, the most famous of which was Alfred Thayer Mahan. Mahan was made famous in 1890 by a book which revolutionized the way nations across the world thought about the importance of the navy.

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A look into Alfred Thayer Mahan’s fumbles in the world of leadership. The Father of the Modern Navy was not a seagoing man.