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He wanted to establish and assert power projection, and he invoked his own personal powers and sent them out to the Far East, and then he had to get an act of Congress to pay for the fuel to get them back.

But yes, he did.

He did do a pass and review in Norfolk.

And that was a substantial example of Mahan's influence of sea power on world history in action.

Talk to me about that.

Talk to me about how, particularly as naval officers, you're ingrained in Alfred Thayer Mahan, the book, The Impact of Sea Power Upon History, is really the basics of naval doctrine for both the Royal Navy and the United States Navy, sir.

What he did was he instantiated the fact that, you know, 96% of the world's population live on coastlines.

He instantiated the fact that we require sea lines of communication for the exchange of commerce, and that those sea lines needed to be protected.

And the only nation that was substantial enough to do that was the United States.

And this was a book that really influenced President Roosevelt, Theodore, the 26th president, where he took it almost as a biblical mission statement that this was something that he had to, in fact, create.

And from that spawned things like the Great White Fleet, but also the investment of Navy and really Naval Aviation,

All of that.

There's a great book written by a historian named Dr. Dave Winkler on the very first aircraft carrier, which just celebrated its 100th birthday a few years ago, but the USS Langley.

and the heuristic development of aircraft and launch and recovery of those aircraft.

And, of course, World War I precipitated another example of studying and raising the bar in those operations.

Hey, Admiral Masso, hang on one second.

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Admiral Sonny Masso, Captain Finnell, Captain Morgan, Cleo Pascal.

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