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Encyclopedia > Sea denial

Sea denial is a military term describing attempts to deny an enemy's ability to use the sea but at the same time makes no attempt to control the sea itself. It is a far easier strategy to carry out than sea control because it requires the mere existence of a navy.


During World War I and World War II Germany engaged in sea denial strategy with their U-boats. They attempted to deny the United Kingdom's ability to transport supplies to Britain but did not attempt to gain control of the sea so they could transport their own supplies over the ocean. Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km (over 11 miles) into the air. ... U-boat is also a nickname for some diesel locomotives built by GE; see List of GE locomotives October 1939. ...


See also: fleet in being In naval warfare, a fleet in being is a naval force that extends a controlling influence without ever leaving port. ...


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The entire region originally known as California was composed of the Mexican peninsula now known as Baja California and much of the land in the current states of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona and Wyoming, known as Alta California.
In these early times, the boundaries of the Sea of Cortez and the Pacific coast were only partially explored and California was shown on early maps as an island.
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