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If fortifications are sufficiently strong, no modern navy will venture to attack them, so long as the foe has in existence a hostile navy of anything like the same size or efficiency.
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gutenberg.orgTeddy Roosevelt: “If fortifications are sufficiently strong, no modern navy will venture to attack them, so long as the foe has in…”
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Roosevelt believes that strong fortifications can deter attacks from equally matched navies.
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