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The Neptune Factor: Alfred Thayer Mahan and the Concept of Sea Power

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Winner of the 2024 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature

The Neptune Factor is the biography of an idea—the concept of “Sea Power,” a term first coined by Capt. A.T. Mahan and the core thread of his life’s work. His central argument was that the outcome of rivalries on the seas have decisively shaped the course of modern history. Although Mahan’s scholarship has long been seen as foundational to all systematic study of naval power, Neptune Factor is the first attempt to explain how...