ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the question of Mahan and geopolitics in light of certain findings of this book. It examines the studies of Mahan and geopolitics, provide a summary of the latest revisionist analysis of relevant portions of Mahan's work, and consider the implications of the new scholarship. Mahan's ideas about sea power, which among other things dealt with the inter-connectedness of force, economics, and geography, have prompted considerable discussion of the relationship of his work to geopolitics. Mahan was not only concerned with grand strategy, but also the nature of command. To accomplish this, the descriptive analysis of Inventing Grand strategy and Teaching Command was limited to Mahan's consideration of the two large phenomenon mentioned in the title, excluding for the most part his commentary on secondary matters such as racism, imperialism, militarism, Social Darwinism, diplomacy, and international law. In the closing pages of his first chapter, Mahan addressed his main practical concern.
