Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because they represented only a small percentage of total forces, the Union and Confederate navies we

A military history of the naval aspects of the Civil War, discussing the Union's goal of capturing Confederate ports and the South's determination to break the

At the beginning of the American Civil War the Federal government imposed a blockade of the southern coast of the Confederate States of America, including the d

Historically, operations and studies regarding maritime security focus on individual threats (e.g., piracy, terrorism, narcotics, etc.) and individual measures

A Great And Urgent Imperial Service investigates the reasons behind Great Britain's combined military and naval offensive expeditions of Europe during the Great