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Power does not exist. Not in any absolute sense. It is the ability to apply appropriate force about a given point.
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Admiral Stansfield Turner USN, quoted in James A. Nathan and James K. Oliver, The Future of United States Naval Power (Indiana University Press, 1979) p. 48.
Quoted in James Cable, Gunboat Diplomacy 1919–1979, 2nd edn (Macmillan, 1981) p. 145.
Robert L. Scheina, ‘The Argentine Navy Today’, Naval Forces, vol. II, no. 1 (1981) pp. 34–5.
Bradford Dismukes and James McConnell, Soviet Naval Diplomacy (Pergamon Press, 1979) pp. 130–3.
Arthur J. Marder, ‘The Royal Navy and the Ethiopian Crisis of 1935–36’, American Historical Review, vol. LXXV, no. 5 (June 1970).
Captain A. T. Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire 1793–1812 (Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1892) p. 118.
Lord Strang, ‘Essay on the Formation and Control of Foreign Policy’ in The Diplomatic Career (André Deutsch, 1962).
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Cable, J. (1985). The Diffusion of Maritime Power. In: Diplomacy at Sea. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07550-8_2
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