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.
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