2024 Morison Award

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THE NEPTUNE FACTOR

Alfred Thayer Mahan and the Concept of Sea Power

Nicholas Lambert is a naval historian and a leading authority on the strategic implications of globalization. He received his B.A. with a double major in economics and in history, his M.A. in history and economics, and his D.Phil. in modern history from Worcester College, University of Oxford. Afterwards, he held an Olin Fellowship at Yale University. In addition to The Neptune Factor: Alfred Thayer Mahan and the Concept of $ea Power (Naval Institute Press, 2023), he has written three other research monographs: Planning Armageddon: British Economic Warfare and the First World War (Harvard University Press, 2012), in which he pioneered the concept of weaponizing the infrastructure of the global trading system, and which was awarded the Norman B. Tomlinson Prize; The War Lords and the Gallipoli Disaster: How Globalized Trade Led Britain to its Worst Defeat of the First World War (Oxford University Press, 2021), which was awarded the John Lyman Prize; and Sir John Fisher’s Naval Revolution (University of South Carolina Press, 1999), which received both the Norman B. Tomlinson Prize and the Society for Military History’s Distinguished Book Award. He is also the author of twenty research articles in leading journals. His most recent commentary has appeared in Wall Street Journal and the Proceedings of the US Naval Institute.