Naval Strategy

...His overseas expansion theory, leveraging the modern ocean-going battle fleet - seizing control of the seas, acquiring overseas bases and colonies, and expanding trade - had a huge impact not only on American leaders such as T. Roosevelt and HC Lodge, but also on Britain, Germany, Japan, and other countries. Even after retiring from the military in 1896, he continued to write a wide range of books, including international politics, political economy, geopolitics, war theory, civilization theory, Asian issues, and biographies (especially the biography of Nelson). His Naval Strategy (1911) was translated into Japanese (abridged by the Navy Department, and later translated by Ozaki Kazunari and published by Suikosha in 1932), and was widely accepted in Japanese military science thought before World War II. In 1898, during the Spanish-American War, he served in the Naval Strategy Department, and was active as a member of the American delegation to the First Hague Peace Conference (1899). ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "naval strategy" is listed below.

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…近代的な渡洋戦艦隊をてことする彼の海外膨張論――制海権の掌握，海外根拠地･植民地の獲得，通商の拡張――は，T.ローズベルトやH.C.ロッジなどアメリカの指導者のみならず，イギリス，ドイツ，日本などにも甚大な影響を及ぼした。96年退役後も，国際政治，政治経済学，地政学，戦争論，文明論，アジア問題，伝記(とりわけ《ネルソン伝》)など，多岐にわたる執筆活動を続け，《海軍戦略》(1911)は，邦訳(海軍部内による抄訳，のち1932年に尾崎主税による訳書を水交社から上梓)を通じて第2次大戦前の日本の兵学思想にも広く浸透した。98年，米西戦争の際，海軍作戦部勤務，第1次ハーグ平和会議(1899)ではアメリカ代表の一員として活躍した。…

※「《海軍戦略》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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