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Why Does America Need a Larger Navy?

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 8, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 19.

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Why Does America Need a Larger Navy?

In the United States Senate, April 2, Senator Bate said: “That very able naval officer who taught the nations of the world the value and importance of sea power [Captain Asa Mahan] has recently advised us that our navy must be enlarged still further, because the transportation of armies to different and distant provinces has become one of its most important functions.” But why should armies need to be so transported by the United States?