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

It has been said that naval blockades are military interventions that can restrict war and preserve peace. In this collection of 22 articles, edited by scholars of the US Naval War College, contributors describe how blockades work within international law, then examine Napoleon's Continental blockades, the blockade of American ports in 1812, the Crimean War blockade, the Union Navy's blockades, the Japanese action in the Sino-Japanese Wars, the blockade of Cuba in the Spanish-American War, World War I blockades, and the role of the blockade in economic warfare from 1939 to 1945. They cover the blockade of the People's Republic of China by nationalists and the resulting missile policy, Korea 1950-53, the Cuban Missile Crisis, blockades in Vietnam and Rhodesia and as a strategy of the Falklands War and Iraq, and Australia's sealing of its own borders. The collection concludes with commentary of the future of the practice. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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.