Comments by "" (@VersusARCH) on "The Impact of Mahan on Naval History - Decisively more than just battles" video.

Yup, instead of trying to lease Port Arthur they should have made a huge heating plant in St Petersburg and layed heating pipes along the bottom of the Baltic sea to prevent it from freezing over the winter...
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Just as Mahan figured it out - a comparably cost-effective alternative to sea transport in the form of RAILWAYS was invented and began to be widely used...
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Drach: "Creditable" 😎
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@gokbay3057 Assuming much?
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... Well, the Jeune Ecole approach using submarines in the end didn't work for the Germans in either of the world wars (although they probably had no better alternative)... While the Kantai Kessen approach worked for the Japanese twice before (vs China and vs Russia).
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@augustosolari7721 Had they not struck Pearl, their sea lanes supporting the invasion of the Phillipines could have been attacked by at least 8 US standards and 5 large fleet + perhaps 1 light carrier in addition to reinforced allied airpower on the Phillipines. And they had to take the Philippines before they could take the Dutch East Indies. And had they not taken the latter - see what happened to Italy (which also had no sources of oil). They had better chance of taking on US by defeating them in detail. And in the end, US standards, thanks, in part, to Pearl, played little part in WW2 other than as shore bombardment units.
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Because USN, RN, and essentially any other sizeable navy were so much different?
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