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Its real suggestiveness is in the limitation of Sea Power evidenced by it, but most of all should it be remembered and compared with more recent campaigns from which deductions are drawn.
It is not argued that this war negatives the general principles of Sea Power as laid down by Captain Mahan, but it sorts ill with the elaborations of some of his more ardent disciples. It clearly suggests that besides Sea Power and Land Power there is a greater power still—a power which has as yet no name, though we have seen its action in 1904-1905[1] as clearly as in the Peloponnesian war. It is called nameless; but perhaps it may be characterised. And its characterisation is this—Fitness to win.
- ↑ See chapter on the Russo-Japanese war.
