Naval Blockades And Seapower Strategies And Counter-Strategies, 1805-2005

This book is a collection of scholarly essays on 19 th and 20 th century naval blockades. It brings together a set of scholarly, readable, and up-to-date essays covering the most significant naval blockades from these periods, including Napoleon's Continental Blockade of England, the Anglo-American War of 1812, the Crimean War, the American Civil War, the first Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95, the Spanish-American War, World War I, the second Sino-Japanese War 1937-45, World War II 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, authors 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, the volume provides new insights into issues such as what a blockade is, why countries might chose 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.Paine, Sarah C. M. is the author of 'Naval Blockades And Seapower Strategies And Counter-Strategies, 1805-2005', published 2006 under ISBN 9780415354660 and ISBN 0415354668.