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Author Vego, Milan

Title Maritime Strategy and Sea Denial : Theory and Practice
Published Milton : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (349 pages)
Series Cass Series: Naval Policy and History Ser
Cass Series: Naval Policy and History Ser
Contents Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Maps; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Strategic framework; Stronger vs. weaker side; Maritime strategy in peacetime; Maritime strategy in a war; Notes; Chapter 2: Defense vs. offensive; Importance; Defense vs. offense; Active vs. passive defense; Defensive and offensive; Land vs. sea; Notes; Chapter 3: Prerequisites; Notes; Chapter 4: Disputing sea control; Operating environment; Characteristics; Dynamics; Main methods; Methods of combat employment; Notes
Chapter 5: Avoiding/seeking a decisive encounterThe roots; The concept; Active fleet-in-being; Passive fleet-in-being; Semi-activefleet-in-being; Seeking a decisive encounter; Notes; Chapter 6: Weakening of the enemy's naval forces over time; Offensive mining; Notes; Chapter 7: Counter-containment; Strategic diversion; Tying up enemy forces; Notes; Chapter 8: Destroying the enemy'smilitary-economic potential at sea; Requirements; Main methods; Tenets; Notes; Chapter 9: Attack on the enemy's coast; Notes; Chapter 10: Defense of the coast; Elements; Notes
Chapter 11: Defense/capturing of important positions/basing areasNotes; Chapter 12: Defense/capturing a choke point; Notes; Select bibliography; Books; Monographs; Articles; Index
Summary This book focuses on the theory and practice of maritime strategy and operations by the weaker powers at sea. Illustrated by examples from naval and military history, the book explains and analyzes the strategies of the weaker side at sea in both peacetime and wartime; in defense versus offense; the main prerequisites for disputing control of the sea; and the conceptual framework of disputing control of the sea. It also explains and analyzes in some detail the main methods of disputing sea control - avoiding/seeking decisive encounters, weakening enemy naval forces over time, counter-containment of enemy naval forces, destroying the enemy's military-economic potential at sea, attacks on the enemy coast, defense of the coast, defense/capturing important positions/basing areas, and defense/capturing of a choke point. A majority of the world's navies are currently of small or medium-size. In the case of a war with a much stronger opponent, they would be strategically on the defensive, and their main objective then would be to dispute control of the sea by a stronger side at sea. This book provides a practical guide to such a strategy. This book would be of much interest to students of naval power, maritime security, strategic studies and military/naval history
Notes Print version record
Subject Naval strategy.
Access denial (Military science)
HISTORY -- Military -- Strategy.
HISTORY -- Military -- General.
Corbett.
coast.
defence.
Mahan.
maritime strategy.
navies.
sea denial.
Access denial (Military science)
Naval strategy
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781351047715
135104771X