Our possession of the Philippines, our interest in the trade of the Orient, our building the Isthmian Canal, our insistence upon the Monroe Doctrine, all demand that our Navy shall be of adequate size and for its size of unsurpassed efficiency.
Roosevelt outlines the strategic importance of the Navy for American interests in the Pacific and the Caribbean.
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