naval blockade
Maritime supply cutoff
A naval blockade is the use of warships to prevent vessels from entering or leaving enemy ports or coastlines.
Blockades cut off supplies, trade, and reinforcements during wartime: The naval blockade starved the island nation into submission.
Under international law, blockades must be declared and enforced to be legally binding.
- trade embargoBan on commercial exchange
- encirclementSurrounding enemy forces completely
- containmentPreventing hostile expansion
- frigateMedium-sized naval warship
- interdictionAuthoritative prohibition or blockade
high seas · submarine · maritime law · destroyer · war declaration · act of war · economic sanctions · coastal defense · Cuban Missile Crisis · attrition · cargo inspection · mines · cutoff · supply lines · convoy · ports · tonnage · warships
- wartimerationing, war economy, war bonds, war effort, evacuations
- naval historybattleships, admiral, battleship, navies, admirals
- naval warfarebattleship, destroyer, sea battles, warship, cruiser
- 1898 AmericaSpanish-American War, USS Maine, McKinley, Rough Riders, Cuba
- Arab-Israeli WarsSix-Day War, Yom Kippur War, Suez Crisis, war of attrition, Israel
- blockadesshipping ban, trade embargo, cordon, encirclement, exclusion zone
naval blockadefree passage
Unhindered right to travel
freedom of navigation · open port · blockade running · safe passage · open waters
naval blockadesiege
Encirclement forcing surrender
border closure · no-fly zone · ground assault · land invasion
naval blockadeblockade running
Penetrating military shipping barriers
amphibious assault · forced entry · beach landing · naval invasion · supply convoy