A Mahanian would argue that sea power endures regardless of the technological limitations of the contemporary weapon delivery mechanism, i.e. shell, aircraft, torpedo, or missile. The USS Langley (first US aircraft carrier) dates to 1921 and Billy Mitchel sank the SMS Ostfriesland in the same year, the first sinking of a major warship by aircraft. Of course, submarines had already came close to starving Britian in WWI. These are all the elements of "modern naval warfare."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Act_of_1794
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-War
A Mahanian would argue that sea power endures regardless of the technological limitations of the contemporary weapon delivery mechanism, i.e. shell, aircraft, torpedo, or missile. The USS Langley (first US aircraft carrier) dates to 1921 and Billy Mitchel sank the SMS Ostfriesland in the same year, the first sinking of a major warship by aircraft. Of course, submarines had already came close to starving Britian in WWI. These are all the elements of "modern naval warfare."