military blockade
Armed access denial
A military blockade is the use of armed forces to prevent goods, supplies, or people from entering or leaving a territory—typically by positioning naval vessels around ports or troops around land routes.
Blockades are acts of war designed to weaken an enemy by cutting off resources: The naval blockade starved the island of fuel and food.
A blockade differs from a siege in targeting supply lines rather than directly attacking fortifications.
- embargoOfficial prohibition on trade
- siegeEncirclement forcing surrender
- international watersOcean beyond national jurisdiction
- containmentPreventing hostile expansion
- Siege of LeningradProlonged WWII encirclement causing mass famine
Berlin Airlift · isolation · deterrence · encirclement · patrols · maritime law · interdiction · chokepoints · airlifts · disruption · quarantine · act of war · humanitarian corridors · war effort · attrition · diplomatic negotiations · occupation · naval forces
- siege warfaresiege, siege tower, siege engine, siege guns, siege warfare
- Boer historyBoers, Afrikaners, Transvaal, Anglo-Boer War, Kruger
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Unregulated international passage
free passage · open port · freedom of navigation · right of way · free trade
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Pact governing international commerce
peace treaty · free trade · free trade zone · economic cooperation · diplomatic engagement
military blockadepeace treaty
Formal end to hostilities
demilitarization · military withdrawal · ceasefire · rapprochement · détente
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