Table of Contents

1. Strategic Framework 2. Defense vs. Offensive 3. Prerequisites 4. Disputing Sea Control 5. Avoiding/Seeking a Decisive Encounter 6. Weakening the Enemy's Naval Forces Over Time 7. Counter-Containment 8. Destroying the Enemy Military-Economic Potential at Sea 9. Attack on the Enemy's Coast 10. Defense of the Coast 11. Defense/Capturing of Important Positions/Basing Areas 12. Defense /Capturing A Choke Point

About the Author

Milan Vego is ADM R.K. Turner Professor of Operational Art at the Naval War College, Rhode Island, U.S.A, and the author of a dozen books including, most recently, Operational Warfare at Sea: Theory and Practice, 2nd ed. (Routledge 2017).