Naval Blockade and Seapower

This collection, edited by two professors at the US Naval War College, examines naval blockades from the Napoleonic Wars to the early twenty-first century, including the American Civil War, both world wars, the Cuban missile crisis and more recent cases.

Each chapter analyses why a blockade succeeded or failed and what counter-strategies were used against it. Together they form a useful set of case studies on economic warfare at sea, a subject closely linked to the debate about trade warfare in the papers on this site.