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Professional Reading: Review Article, Mahan and Theodore Roosevelt: The Assessment of Influence
The Nature of \u27Influence\u27: Roosevelt, Mahan and the Concept of Sea Powe
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the American Occupation of Iceland
On 7 July 1941 the Americans came to lceland. This event was momentous in the history of a nation whose constitution declares its perpetual neutrality, for American forces have been stationed on its soil ever since
Free at last
Almenn greinOn the 30th of September 2006 for the first time in its history as an independent nation, Iceland was free of all foreign military forces or their representatives. A quiet and almost unnoticed ceremony took place at the Keflavik NATO base. American and Icelandic flags were lowered, folded, given to representatives of the respective countries and the small official party drove away. Quietly, with no fanfare or demonstration, or even much notice, the Keflavik base, the focal point of an issue that roiled and divided Iceland politics like one of the fire trenches that mark the country, an issue that had simmered and erupted throughout most of the Cold War, became a ghost town