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Username:: Velkanika
Location:: California, United States
Occupation:: Military Historian
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Founded:: Fri Sep 23, 2011 4:37 pm
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The necessity of a navy, in the restricted sense of the word, springs, therefore, from the existence of a peaceful shipping, and disappears with it, except in the case of a nation which has aggressive tendencies, and keeps up a navy merely as a branch of the military establishment. ¹

¹Alfred T. Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783, 12^th ed. (Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1890), 26.

Please avoid conflating my in-character role playing with what I actually believe, as these are usually quite different things.

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