International Journal of Naval History

News from the U.S. Naval War College

    Dr. Sarah Paine (Strategy & Policy Department, NWC) and Dr. Bruce Elleman (Maritime History Department, NWC) have just turned in to Routledge Press the final manuscript for a book entitled “Naval Blockades and Seapower: Strategies and Counter-Strategies, 1805-2005,” with a foreword by Professor John Hattendorf.  This will be published under the Routledge Press imprint (which recently bought out Frank Cass Publishers) under the series edited by Dr. Geoffrey Till, “Naval Policy and History.” Previously, Frank Cass also published under this series an edited book by Christopher Bell and Professor Elleman entitled “Naval Mutinies of the Twentieth Century: An International Perspective” (2002), also with a Foreword by Professor John Hattendorf.

Bruce Elleman, Associate Professor

Maritime History Department, U.S. Naval War College

Newport, RI 02841

(401) 841-4013

Here is an early look at the table of contents and the contributors.

Naval Blockades and Seapower:

Strategies and Counter-Strategies,1805-2005

Bruce A. Elleman and S.C.M. Paine eds.

Table of Contents

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