es as
have been made extend only to phraseology, with the occasional
modification of an expression that seemed to err by excess or defect.
The dates at the head of each article show the time of its writing,
not of its publication.

The thanks of the author are expressed to the proprietors of the
"Atlantic Monthly," of the "Forum," of the "North American Review,"
and of "Harper's New Monthly Magazine," who have kindly permitted the
republication of the articles originally contributed to their pages.

A.T. MAHAN.

_November, 1897._

CONTENTS.

I. THE UNITED STATES LOOKING OUTWARD
From the Atlantic Monthly, December, 1890.

II. HAWAII AND OUR FUTURE SEA POWER
From the Forum, March, 1893.

III. THE ISTHMUS AND SEA POWER
From the Atlantic Monthly, September, 1893.

IV. POSSIBILITIES OF AN ANGLO-AMERICAN REUNION
From the North American Review, November, 1894.

V. THE FUTURE IN RELATION TO AMERICAN NAVAL POWER
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, October, 1895.

VI. PREPAREDNESS FOR NAVAL WAR
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, March, 1897.

VII. A TWENTIETH-CENTURY OUTLOOK
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, September, 1897.

VIII. STRATEGIC FEATURES OF THE CARIBBEAN SEA AND THE GULF OF MEXICO
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, October, 1897.

MAPS.

THE PACIFIC

THE GULF AND CARIBBEAN

THE UNITED STATES LOOKING OUTWARD.

_August, 1890._

Indications are not wanting of an approaching change in the thoughts
and policy of Americans as to their relations with the world outside
their own borders. For the past quarter of a century, the predominant
idea, which has asserted itself successfully at the polls and shaped
the course of the government, has been to preserve the home market for
the home industries. The employer and the workman alike have been
taught to look at the various economical measures proposed from this
point of view, to regard with hostility any step favoring the intrusion
of the foreign producer upon their own domain, and rather to demand
increasingly rigorous measures of exclusion than to acquiesce in any
loosening of the chain that binds the consumer to them. The inevitable
consequence has followed, as in all cases when the mind or the eye is
exclusively fixed in one direction, that the danger of loss or the
prospect of advantage in another quarter has been overlooked; and
although the abounding resources of the country