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"Whoever controls the Indian Ocean will dominate Asia". These words were said by which person ?
Answer: A
The words are attributed to Admiral Mahan.
Alfred Thayer Mahan, the American naval officer whose The Influence of Sea Power upon History (1890) founded modern sea-power theory, is credited with saying that whoever controls the Indian Ocean will dominate Asia, and that the ocean is the key to the seven seas. The quotation is repeated in almost every Indian textbook on maritime security, though it has not been traced to a particular passage of his published work.
Nehru wrote on the importance of the sea to India but is not the source of this line. Admiral Nelson was a British commander of the Napoleonic wars, and General MacArthur was associated with the Pacific war and Korea, not with this saying.
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