MAHAN, ALFRED THAYER (1840-1914), American naval officer and historian (see 17.394), died in Washington, D.C., Dec. 1 1914. His later works included The Interest of America in International Conditions (1910); Naval Strategy Compared and Contrasted with the Principles of Military Operations on Land (1911, lectures delivered at the U.S. Naval War College, Newport, R.I., between 1887 and 1911); Armaments and Arbitration (1912) and The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence (1913).