Sea control
Here are entered works on the strategic and tactical employment of land or sea-based forces of a country at the time its maritime interests are threatened, so as to gain or exploit control of the sea or deny its use to the enemy. Works on long term questions of naval strength, including weapons, installations, national resources, etc., allowing a country to maintain control of the sea and the air space above are entered under Sea-power.
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Broader terms:Related term:Narrower term:Used for:- Control of the sea
- Maritime operations (Naval forces)
- Operations, Naval
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U.S. Naval Strategy in the 1990s: Selected Documents (Naval War College Newport Papers #26; Newport, RI: Naval War College Press, 2006), ed. by John B. Hattendorf (PDF at Ibiblio)
- Monitoring Limits on Sea-Launched Cruise Missiles (OTA-ISC-513; 1992), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
- Submarine Warfare of To-Day (London: Seeley, Service and Co., 1920), by Charles W. Domville-Fife (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Submarine Warfare, Offensive and Defensive: Including a Discussion of the Offensive Torpedo System, its Effects Upon Iron-Clad Ship Systems, and Influence Upon Future Naval Wars (New York: Van Nostrand, 1869), by John S. Barnes (page images at HathiTrust)
- Blake of the "Rattlesnake", or, The Man Who Saved England: A Story of Torpedo Warfare in 189- (London: Tower Pub. Co., 1895), by Fred T. Jane
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Naval battles- Boys' Book of Sea Fights: Famous Naval Engagements From Drake to Beatty (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, c1920), by Chelsea Curtis Fraser
- Ironclads in Action: A Sketch of Naval Warfare From 1855 to 1895, With Some Account of the Development of the Battleship in England (2 volumes (American and British imprints), 1896), by Herbert Wrigley Wilson, contrib. by A. T. Mahan
- An Essay on Naval Tactics, Systematical and Historical, With Explanatory Plates (third edition; Edinburgh: Printed for A. Black; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1827), by John Clerk, contrib. by Lord Rodney (page images at HathiTrust)
- In a Conning Tower, or, How I Took H.M.S. "Majestic" Into Action: A Story of Modern Ironclad Warfare (fourth edition; London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1891), by H. O. Arnold-Forster, illust. by William Heysham Overend (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Private War: Being the Truth About Gordon Traill; His Personal Statement (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1907), by Louis Joseph Vance, illust. by H. C. Edwards (page images at Google; US access only)
- Will Weatherhelm: The Yarn of an Old Sailor, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- From Powder Monkey to Admiral: A Story of Naval Adventure, by William Henry Giles Kingston, illust. by Archibald Webb (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Naval Wars in the Levant, 1559-1853 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1952), by R. C. Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Manet and the American Civil War: The Battle of U.S.S. Kearsarge and C.S.S. Alabama (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980), by Juliet Wilson-Bareau, contrib. by David C. Degener (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)
- The Writings of Stephen B. Luce (Newport, RI: Naval War College Press, 1975), by Stephen Bleecker Luce, ed. by John D. Hayes and John B. Hattendorf (PDF at ibiblio.org)
- Sea-Power, and Other Studies, by Cyprian Bridge (Gutenberg text)
- In a Conning Tower, or, How I Took H.M.S. "Majestic" Into Action: A Story of Modern Ironclad Warfare (fourth edition; London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1891), by H. O. Arnold-Forster, illust. by William Heysham Overend (page images at HathiTrust)
- Derrotas Desde el Puerto de Montevideo a Buenos-Aires: Por el Norte, y Sud del Banco Chico, Que Para Bien de la Humanidad y Del Comercio (in Spanish; Montevideo, Uruguay: Imp. de la Caridad, 1826), by Benito Aizpurúa (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Laskari Dictionary: or, Anglo-Indian Vocabulary of Nautical Terms and Phrases in English and Hindustani, Chiefly in the Corrupt Jargon in Use Among Laskars or Indian Sailors (London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, ca. 1881), by Thomas Roebuck, William Carmichael Smyth, and George Small (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Universal Dictionary of the Marine (London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1769), by William Falconer
- An Universal Dictionary of the Marine (new edition; London: T. Cadell, 1780), by William Falconer
- Vocabolario Marino e Militare (in Italian; Rome: Voghera Carlo, 1889), by Alberto P. Guglielmotti (page images at HathiTrust)
- Naval War College Review (partial serial archives)
- Brassey's Naval Annual (partial serial archives)
- United States Naval Institute Proceedings (partial serial archives)
- The Mariner's Mirror (partial serial archives)
- The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1958), by Henry Kahane, Renée Kahane, and Andreas Tietze (page images at HathiTrust)
- Derrotas Desde el Puerto de Montevideo a Buenos-Aires: Por el Norte, y Sud del Banco Chico, Que Para Bien de la Humanidad y Del Comercio (in Spanish; Montevideo, Uruguay: Imp. de la Caridad, 1826), by Benito Aizpurúa (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Camouflage Simplified (New York: Devin-Adair Co., 1942), by Eric Sloane (page images at HathiTrust)
- Pure Logistics: The Science of War Preparation (Kansas City, MO: Franklin Hudson Pub. Co., 1917), by George C. Thorpe (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
- U. S. Naval Logistics in the Second World War (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947), by Duncan S. Ballantine (page images at HathiTrust)
- Boys' Book of Sea Fights: Famous Naval Engagements From Drake to Beatty (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, c1920), by Chelsea Curtis Fraser
- Privateers and Privateering (New York: J. Pott and Co., 1910), by E. P. Statham
- Some Principles of Maritime Strategy (1911), by Julian Stafford Corbett (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Privateers and Privateering (New York: J. Pott and Co., 1910), by E. P. Statham
- Privateering in King George's War, 1739-1748 (1928), by Howard M. Chapin (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Cruising Voyage Round the World: First to the South-Seas, Thence to the East-Indies, and Homewards by the Cape of Good Hope, Begun in 1708, and Finish'd in 1711 (London: Printed for A. Bell and B. Lintot, 1712), by Woodes Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
- Precedents of American Neutrality, in Reply to the Speech of Sir Roundell Palmer, Attorney-General of England, in the British House of Commons, May 13, 1864 (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1864), by George Bemis (page images at HathiTrust)
- Heresies of Sea Power (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906), by Fred T. Jane
- The Soveraignty of the British Seas, Proved by Records, History, and the Municipal Laws of This Kingdom: Written in the Year 1633 (London: Printed for J. Roberts, 1739), by John Borough (multiple formats at Google)
- The Sovereignty of the British Seas: Written in the Year 1633 (Edinburgh: W. Green and Son, Ltd., 1920), by John Borough, ed. by Thomas Callander Wade (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Japan's Influence on American Naval Power, 1897-1917 (University of California Publications in History v36; Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1947), by Outten Jones Clinard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future (London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, 1897), by A. T. Mahan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Sovereignty of the Sea: An Historical Account of the Claims of England to the Dominion of the British Seas, and of the Evolution of the Territorial Waters; With Special Reference to the Rights of Fishing and the Naval Salute (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1911), by Thomas Wemyss Fulton
- Globalization and Maritime Power, ed. by Sam J. Tangredi (HTML at fdlp.gov)
- The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 (12th edition; Boston: Little, Brown and Co., c1918), by A. T. Mahan
- The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 (25th edition; Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1925), by A. T. Mahan (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ocean and Her Rulers: A Narrative of the Nations Which Have From the Earliest Ages Held Dominion Over the Sea, Comprising a Brief History of Navigation From the Remotest Periods to the Present Time (new and revised edition; London: Griffith and Farran, 1878), by Alfred Elwes, illust. by Walter W. May (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sea-Power, and Other Studies, by Cyprian Bridge (Gutenberg text)
- Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 (2 volumes; London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., ca. 1905), by A. T. Mahan
- The World's Highway: Some Notes on America's Relation to Sea Power and Non-Military Sanctions for the Law of Nations (New York: George H. Doran Co., c1915), by Norman Angell (multiple formats at archive.org)
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