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Since the end of the Cold War, the United States has staggered from crisis to crisis, seemingly with no plan on how to exist and prosper in the 21st century. Many see America's disorganized stumbling into the new millennium, as being caused by the absence of a genuine national strategy. The U.S. Cold War strategy of containment of the Soviet Union and Communist bloc may have been heavy-handed and obvious, but it worked. This is in stark contrast to America's national strategies of the 20th century.  Over a century ago, a visionary naval officer and author, Capt. Alfred Thayer Mahan, USN, wrote the first great American book on strategy, The Influence of Seapower Upon History. The book, which became a runaway international bestseller, laid out the tenets of modern seapower based upon historic case studies and a far-reaching look to the future of navies. Politicians and military professionals, from Theodore Roosevelt in the U.S., to Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany, used Mahan's book as a roadmap to create navies and