Naval Blockades and Seapower by Elleman, Bruce A.; Paine, S.C.M.;

Short description:

This book is one of the first scholarly works to address the problem of naval blockades from a multi-national perspective.

Long description:

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.

Table of Contents:

Part 1: Blockades and Seapower  1. Introduction  2. Naval Blockade and International Law  Part 2: Blockades Through World War II  3. Napoleon’s Continental Blockade:an Effective Substitute to Naval Weakness?  4. The Flawed British Blockade: 1812-1815—Wade Dudley  5. The Crimean War Blockade: 1854 – 1856  6. The Union Navy’s Blockade Reconsidered  7. The First Sino-Japanese War: Japanese Destruction of the Beiyang Fleet, 1894-1895  8. The Naval Blockade of Cuba during the Spanish-American War  9. World War I: The Blockade  10. Japanese Naval Blockade of China in the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1941  11. Naval Blockade and Economic Warfare in the European War, 1939-1945 Part 3: Blockades After World War II  12. The Nationalist’s Blockade of the PRC, 1949-1958  13. Air and Sea Power in Korea: A Failed Blockade, 1950-1953  14. The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis  15. Naval Blockades during the Vietnam War  16. Britain’s Broken Blockade against Rhodesia: The Beira Patrol  17. The 1982 Falklands War: SLOCs and Sidewinders  18. Maritime Sanctions Enforcement Against Iraq, 1990-2003  19. Ballistic Missiles in China’s anti-Taiwan Blockade Strategy  20. ‘To Disrupt, Deter and Deny’: Sealing Australia’s Maritime Borders  Part 4: Contemporary Blockade Strategy  21. Technology and Naval Blockade  22. Naval Blockades and the Future of Seapower