1st Edition
Naval Blockades and Seapower Strategies and Counter-Strategies, 1805-2005
Acknowledgements
Tables
Foreword—John Hattendorf.
PART I: Blockades and Seapower
1. Introduction—Bruce Elleman/Sarah Paine.
2. Naval Blockade and International Law—Wolff H. von Heinegg.
PART II Blockades Through World War II
3. Napoleon’s Continental Blockade:an Effective Substitute to Naval Weakness?—Silvia Marzagalli.
4. The Flawed British Blockade: 1812-1815—Wade Dudley.
5. The Crimean War Blockade: 1854 – 1856—Andrew Lambert.
6. The Union Navy’s Blockade Reconsidered—David Surdam.
7. The First Sino-Japanese War: Japanese Destruction of the Beiyang Fleet, 1894-1895—Sarah Paine.
8. The Naval Blockade of Cuba during the Spanish-American War—Mark Hayes.
9. World War I: The Blockade—Paul Halpern.
10. Japanese Naval Blockade of China in the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1941—Ken-ichi ARAKAWA.
11. Naval Blockade and Economic Warfare in the European War, 1939-1945—Geoffrey Till.
PART III Blockades After World War II
12. The Nationalist’s Blockade of the PRC, 1949-1958—Bruce Elleman.
13. Air and Sea Power in Korea: A Failed Blockade, 1950-1953—Malcolm Muir Jr..
14. The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis—Jeffrey Barlow.
15. Naval Blockades during the Vietnam War—Spencer Tucker.
16. Britain’s Broken Blockade against Rhodesia: The Beira Patrol—Richard Mobley.
17. The 1982 Falklands War: SLOCs and Sidewinders – Charles Koburger, Jr.
18. Maritime Sanctions Enforcement Against Iraq, 1990-2003—James Goldrick.
19. Ballistic Missiles in China’s anti-Taiwan Blockade Strategy—Chris Rahman.
20. ‘To disrupt, deter and deny’: Sealing Australia’s Maritime Borders—David Stevens.
PART IV Contemporary Blockade Strategy
21. Technology and Naval Blockade—Roger Barnett.
22. Naval Blockades and the Future of Seapower—Bruce Elleman/Sarah Paine.
Bibliography
Contributors
Biography
Bruce Elleman is an Associate Professor in the Maritime History Department in the Center for Naval Warfare Studies at the US Naval War College, and most recently author of Modern Chinese Warfare, 1795-1989 (Routledge, 2001), Wilson and China: A Revised History of the Shandong Question (M.E.Sharpe, 2002), and co-editor with Chris Bell of Naval Mutinies of the Twentieth Century: An International Perspective (Frank Cass, 2003).
Sarah C.M.Paine is an Associate Professor in the Strategy & Policy Department at the US Naval War College and author of Imperial Rivals: China, Russia and Their Disputed Frontiers (M.E. Sharpe, 1996) and The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895: Perceptions, Power and Primacy (Cambridge, 2002). Current research interests include a book project on Japanese-Soviet rivalries over northeast Asia from 1931 to 1949.
