Tracy Attack on Maritime Trade

Erscheinungsjahr 1991
ISBN: 978-1-349-12303-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 277 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Engineering (R0)

This text explores the motives for attacks on maritime trade over the last five centuries and assesses the strategic utility of that form of naval action. The author has also written "Navies, Deterrence and American Independence".

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tracy, Nicholas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1 Development of strategic purposes for attack on maritime trade: reprisal and the laws of war at sea; low-budget navies - prize money and privateers; bullionism - the Anglo-Spanish wars; interdiction of contraband; the shadow of mercantilism; the Spanish-Dutch war; the Anglo-Dutch wars; the Anglo-French 100-year mercantilist trade war; the problem of lateral escalation, the league of armed neutrality; the continental system and British orders-in-council; free trade, the Crimean war and the declaration of Paris; trade war as a strategy of containment; the American Civil War; the Jeune Ecole and the Mahan School; Pacific blockade; the Hague conferences and the declaration of London. Part 2 The twentieth century: World War One - the blockade of the central powers, the 1917 U-boat campaign, assessment of the utility of the Entente blockade; the Belligerent's rights dispute and the "New Mercantilism; trade control and blockade between the wars - the Ethiopian crisis, the Spanish Civil War, sanctions against Japan; Second World War - the British blockade of Germany; the Allied blockade of Japan; the German U-boat Guerre je Course; naval blockade and attack on shipping since 1945 - Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, Rhodesia, Arab-Israeli incidents, Indo-Pakistan war, October war. The Gulf War, Russian attitudes.