Milan Vego is Professor of Operations at the Naval War College, Rhode Island, USA, and the author of ten books including Naval Strategy and Operations in Narrow Seas (Routledge 2003), and Operational Warfare at Sea (Routledge 2008).

Preface 1. Strategic Framework 2. Sea Control 3. Obtaining and Maintaining Sea Control 4. Destroying the Enemy's Forces by A Decisive Action at Sea 5. Destroying Enemy's Forces by a Decisive Action at their Bases 6. Destroying Enemy Forces Over Time 7. Containing Enemy Forces 8. Choke Point Control 9. Capturing Important Enemy Positions/Basing Areas

This book focuses on the key naval strategic objectives of obtaining and maintaining sea control, and explains the theory illustrated by historical examples of the main methods to achive this goal.