Alfred Thayer Mahan what role did this individual have?

In 1883 the US Navy was directed to transition from a wooden ship navy to a iron/steel ship navy. The rest of the world's navies were doing the same thing. In 1890 USN Capt.

Mahan published a book titled: "The Influence of Sea Power on story 1660-1783 Timing is everything. Since no one had published such a book previously, and everyone was building a iron/steel ship navy; nearly every leader of every civilized nation read Mahan's book This led to the construction of more steel battleships, which led to a massive naval arm's race, which in turn led to the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905; which removed Russia from the naval arms race, and allowed Germany to take the lead, which in turn caused a direct clash between Britain (already an established naval power) and Germany during WWI.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.