" P E R S P E C T I V E S "
…."My last word to you, (faculty and students of the Naval War College) then, in these preliminary remarks, is to master, and keep track of, the great current events in history contemporary with yourself. Appreciate their meaning….the sphere of the navy is international solely. It is this which allies is so closely to that of the statesman. Aim to be yourselves statesmen as well seamen. The biography and history of our profession will give you glorious names who have been both. I trust the future may show many such among the sons of this college". (Alfred Thayer Mahan, 1898)
Li isto e outros textos em 1998. Particularmente ao reler esta tarde esta parte, dou comigo a pensar de novo em certas tiradas grandiloquentes do nosso momento contemporâneo e que por aí vejo ecoadas na comunicação social com tanto fervor e servilismo, sem um momento de pausa para meditarem no significado real por trás de certas campanhas e de certas "boutades". Enfim, é como estamos.
António Cabral
Contra-Almirante, reformado
(marrevoltado.blogspot.pt)
