HIS 2552 Final: Final Exam Notes
3 Apr 2018
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Term sea power originated in the late 1800s. Products of increased international competition resulting in part from new technologies that brought competition for trade and influence in asia and africa. Navies became more then every a key component of national power, and becoming extremely expensive because of rapid technological change. Thus analysis by scholars- many of them naval officers- about the size and type of naval forces required. Sea power: a nation or state having international power or influence on sea. Merchant marine- civilian ships and their personnel, including cargo carrying ships and fishing fleets. Merchant ships: the real basis of sea power. Navy- whole body of states ships of war with their crews and all the organization for the maintenance. Served in civil war: after civil war, and with western expansion, us virtually abandoned their navy and by 1880, us navy was he weakest in the world.
