William Sims is one of the most underrated officers and strategists in the history of the United States Navy, and arguably the American military as a whole. Many are, of course, familiar with the writings of Alfred Mahan, the most famous strategist in the history of the United States Navy. Many fewer know that Mahan’s intellectual swan song, so to speak, happened when Sims soundly defeated Mahan in a debate in the pages of Proceedings, a magazine published by the U.S. Naval Institute, over the all-big-gun battleship in 1906.
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