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摘要

Mobley provides an impressive examination of an instrumental period of U.S. Navy History, as it formed the culture, leaders and thinking that would transform Naval Warfare in the 20th Century. A Transformation that paved the way for the move from the American Empire (generally taken to have begun in 1898, with the outbreak of the Spanish-American War) to the American Century, 1917-2016. Many of the battles were fundamentally cultural in nature, where culture includes the (socio) human-technological and techno-socio drivers that form the bases of knowledge transfer. As Australia is determining in the 21st Century, culture forms and is formed through knowledge transfer as the bases of sovereign capability and knowledge sovereignty - at the individual, organisation, and state levels.