Naval Blockades and Seapower: Strategies and Counter-Strategies, 1805-2005Bruce A. Elleman, S.C.M. Paine This new collection of scholarly, readable, and up-to-date essays covers the most significant naval blockades of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Here the reader can find Napoleon’s Continental Blockade of England, the Anglo-American War of 1812, the Crimean War, the American Civil War, the first Sino-Japanese War 1894-95, the Spanish-American War, the First World War, the second Sino-Japanese War 1937-45, the Second World War in Europe and Asia, the Nationalist attempt to blockade the PRC, the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, the British blockade of Rhodesia, the Falklands War, the Persian Gulf interdiction program, the PRC "missile" blockade of Taiwan in 1996, and finally Australia's recent "reverse" blockade to keep illegal aliens out of the country. The authors of each chapter address the causes of the blockade in question, its long and short-term repercussions, and the course of the blockade itself. More generally, they address the state of the literature, taking advantage of new research and new methodologies to provide something of value to both the specialist and non-specialist reader. Taken as a whole, this volume presents fresh insights into issues such as what a blockade is, why countries might choose them, which navies can and cannot make use of them, what responses lead to satisfactory or unsatisfactory conclusions, and how far-reaching their consequences tend to be. This book will be of great interest to all students and scholars of strategic studies, military history and maritime studies in particular. |
Contents
1 Introduction | 3 |
2 Naval Blockade and International Law | 10 |
PART II Blockades Through World War II | 23 |
3 Napoleons Continental Blockade | 25 |
4 The Flawed British Blockade 181215 | 35 |
185456 | 46 |
6 The Union Navys Blockade Reconsidered | 61 |
7 The First SinoJapanese War | 71 |
14 The Cuban Missile Crisis | 157 |
15 Naval Blockades during the Vietnam War | 169 |
16 The Beira Patrol | 181 |
17 SLOCs and Sidewinders | 189 |
18 Maritime Sanctions Enforcement against Iraq 19902003 | 201 |
19 Ballistic Missiles in Chinas AntiTaiwan Blockade Strategy | 215 |
20 To disrupt deter and deny | 225 |
PART IV Contemporary BlockadeStrategy | 237 |
8 The Naval Blockade of Cuba during the SpanishAmerican War | 81 |
The Blockade | 91 |
10 Japanese Naval Blockade of China in the Second SinoJapanese War 193741 | 105 |
11 Naval Blockade and Economic Warfare in the European War 193945 | 117 |
Part III Blockades after World War II | 131 |
12 The Nationalists Blockade of the PRC 194958 | 133 |
13 A Failed Blockade | 145 |
21 Technology and Naval Blockades | 239 |
22 Conclusions | 250 |
Notes | 267 |
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