Halford Mackinder and Alfred Thayer Mahan... I figured I was the only one who read that kind of stuff.
Imperial Japan of course took Mahan seriously.
Mahan believed that dominance of the seas would be determined in decisive slugging matches between battleship fleets like Tsushima and Jutland.
Aircraft carriers changed all that. Marc Mitscher’s innovative Fast Carrier Task Force became the main strike arm of the Navy.
Part of Mackinder’s theory includes the concept of the Rimland and the Heartland so that may actually be the “third theory” that you are thinking of.
Thanks for correction, it is not eastly to keep everything in mind. But Nick Spykman is actually a third guy with rimlands. I don’t think that aircraft carriers changed any of the above theories in principle but more like improved the tooling of the sea powers.
Although the theories of course somehow dated in terms of taking into account modern technology. That’s nuclear weapons and delivery systems in the first place.