Maritime Strategy and Sea Control
This book focuses on the main methods of obtaining and maintaining sea control by a stronger side.
During times of war, sea control, or the ability of combatants to enjoy naval dominance, plays a crucial role in that sides ability to attain overall victory. This book explains and analyzes in some detail all aspects of sea control and describes and analyzes the main methods of obtaining and maintaining it. Various theoretical aspects of sea control also include the views of naval classical thinkers. This book also utilizes historical examples to illustrate the main methods of sea control. Each chapter focuses on a particular method, including destroying the enemy forces by a decisive action, destroying enemy forces over time, containing the enemy fleet, choke point control, and capturing important enemy positions/basing areas. The aim is to provide a comprehensive theory and practice of the struggle for sea control at the strategic and operational levels of war.
The book will be of much interest to students of naval strategy, defense studies, and security studies.
Milan Vego is Professor of Operations at the Naval War College, Rhode Island, United States, and the author of ten books, including Naval Strategy and Operations in Narrow Seas (Routledge, 2003) and Operational Warfare at Sea (Routledge, 2008).
Cass Series: Naval Policy and History
Series Editor: Geoffrey Till
ISSN 1366-9478
This series consists primarily of original manuscripts by research scholars in the general area of naval policy and history, without national or chronological limitations. It will from time to time also include collections of important articles, as well as reprints of classic works.
1.Austro-Hungarian Naval Policy, 19041914
Milan N. Vego
2.Far-Flung Lines: Studies in Imperial Defence in Honour of Donald Mackenzie Schurman
Edited by Keith Neilson and Greg Kennedy
3.Maritime Strategy and Continental Wars
Rear Admiral Raja Menon
4.The Royal Navy and German Naval Disarmament 19421947
Chris Madsen
5.Naval Strategy and Operations in Narrow Seas
Milan N. Vego
6.The Pen and Ink Sailor: Charles Middleton and the Kings Navy, 17781813
John E. Talbott
7.The Italian Navy and Fascist Expansionism, 19351940
Robert Mallett
8.The Merchant Marine and International Affairs, 18501950
Edited by Greg Kennedy
9.Naval Strategy in Northeast Asia: Geo-Strategic Goals, Policies and Prospects
Duk-Ki Kim
10.Naval Policy and Strategy in the Mediterranean Sea: Past, Present and Future
Edited by John B. Hattendorf
11.Stalins Ocean-Going Fleet: Soviet Naval Strategy and Shipbuilding Programmes, 19351953
Jrgen Rohwer and Mikhail S. Monakov
12.Imperial Defence, 18681887
Donald Mackenzie Schurman, edited by John Beeler
13.Technology and Naval Combat in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Edited by Phillips Payson OBrien
14.The Royal Navy and Nuclear Weapons
Richard Moore
15.The Royal Navy and the Capital Ship in the Interwar Period: An Operational Perspective
Joseph Moretz
16.Chinese Grand Strategy and Maritime Power
Thomas M. Kane
17.Britains Anti-Submarine Capability, 19191939
George Franklin
18.Britain, France and the Naval Arms Trade in the Baltic, 19191939: Grand Strategy and Failure
Donald Stoker
19.Naval Mutinies of the Twentieth Century: An International Perspective
Edited by Christopher Bell and Bruce Elleman
20.The Road to Oran: Anglo-French Naval Relations, September 1939July 1940
David Brown
21.The Secret War Against Sweden: US and British Submarine Deception and Political Control in the 1980s
Ola Tunander
22.Royal Navy Strategy in the Far East, 19191939: Planning for a War Against Japan
Andrew Field
23.Seapower: A Guide for the Twenty-First Century
Geoffrey Till
24.Britains Economic Blockade of Germany, 19141919
Eric W. Osborne
25.A Life of Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham: A Twentieth-Century Naval Leader
Michael Simpson
26.Navies in Northern Waters, 17212000
Edited by Rolf Hobson and Tom Kristiansen
27.German Naval Strategy, 18561888: Forerunners to Tirpitz
David Olivier
28.British Naval Strategy East of Suez, 19002000: Influences and Actions
Edited by Greg Kennedy
29.The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Navy in the Baltic, 19211940
Gunnar Aselius
30.The Royal Navy, 19301990: Innovation and Defence
Edited by Richard Harding
31.The Royal Navy and Maritime Power in the Twentieth Century
Edited by Ian Speller
32.Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland: The Question of Fire Control
John Brooks
33.Greek Naval Strategy and Policy, 19101919
Zisis Fotakis
34.Naval Blockades and Seapower: Strategies and Counter-Strategies, 18052005
Edited by Bruce A. Elleman and Sarah C. M. Paine
35.The Pacific Campaign in World War II: From Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal
William Bruce Johnson
36.Anti-Submarine Warfare in World War I: British Naval Aviation and the Defeat of the U-Boats
John J. Abbatiello
37.The Royal Navy and Anti-Submarine Warfare, 194449
Malcolm Llewellyn-Jones
38.The Development of British Naval Thinking: Essays in Memory of Bryan Ranft
Edited by Geoffrey Till
39.Educating the Royal Navy: 18th and 19th Century Education for Officers
H. W. Dickinson
40.Chinese Naval Strategy in the 21st Century: The Turn to Mahan
James R. Holmes and Toshi Yoshihara
41.Naval Coalition Warfare: From the Napoleonic War to Operation Iraqi Freedom
Edited by Bruce A. Elleman and S.C.M. Paine
42.Operational Warfare at Sea: Theory and Practice
Milan Vego
43.Naval Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Operations: Stability from the Sea
Edited by James J. Wirtz and Jeffrey A. Larsen
44.Indian Naval Strategy in the 21st Century
James R. Holmes, Andrew C. Winner, and Toshi Yoshihara
45.Seapower: A Guide for the Twenty-First Century (Second Edition)
Geoffrey Till
46.Naval Power and Expeditionary Warfare: Peripheral Campaigns and New Theatres of Naval Warfare
Edited by Bruce Elleman and S.C.M. Paine
47.Sea Power and the Asia-Pacific: The Triumph of Neptune
Edited by Geoffrey Till and Patrick Bratton
48.Maritime Private Security: Market Responses to Piracy, Terrorism and Waterborne Security Risks in the 21st Century
Edited by Claude Berube and Patrick Cullen
49.Twenty-First Century Seapower: Cooperation and Conflict at Sea
Edited by Peter Dutton, Robert S. Ross, and ystein Tunsj
50.Navies of South-East Asia: A Comparative Study
James Goldrick and Jack McCaffrie
51.Seapower: A Guide for the Twenty-First Century (Third Edition)
Geoffrey Till
52.Naval Modernisation in South-East Asia: Nature, Causes and Consequences
Edited by Geoffrey Till and Jane Chan