Origins of the US Navy as a blue-water force: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War https://en.wikip

Origins of the US Navy as a blue-water force: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Act_of_1794 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Act_of_1794 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-War A Mahanian would argue that sea power endures regardless of the technological limitations of the contemporary weapon delivery mechanism, i.e. shell, aircraft, torpedo, or missile. The USS Langley (first US aircraft carrier) dates to 1921 and Billy Mitchel sank the SMS Ostfriesland in the same year, the first sinking of a major warship by aircraft. Of course, submarines had already came close to starving Britain in WWI. These are all the elements of "modern naval warfare."