Old postcard of Monaghan Statue.

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This file appears in: John R. Monaghan Statue: Martyr to An Obscure War
This file appears in: John R. Monaghan Statue: Martyr to An Obscure War

By Larry Cebula
In 1890, Alfred Thayer Mahan published his magnum opus, The Influence of Seapower Upon History. Thayer was a geopolitical strategist and an admiral in the United States navy, and he argued that throughout history great empires had flourished by…