SeaPower
This battle, enabled by French naval power, led directly to the American victory at Yorktown.
What is the Battle of the Chesapeake?
These Civil War ships (like USS Monitor) represented a major technological shift in naval warfare.
What are ironclads?
This war marked the U.S. emergence as a global power after defeating Spain.
What is the Spanish-American War?
This type of warfare avoids direct confrontation and uses hit-and-run tactics.
What is guerrilla warfare?
This WWII event brought the U.S. fully into the war.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This Civil War strategy aimed to blockade the South and control the Mississippi River.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This WWI weapon nearly defeated Britain through commerce raiding.
What are submarines (U-boats)?
This war is often cited as a successful, limited U.S. intervention with clear objectives.
What is the Gulf War?
This war began as an insurgency against British forces using asymmetric tactics.
What is the American Revolution?
This Cold War crisis brought the U.S. and USSR closest to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This WWI strategy crippled Germany’s economy by cutting off imports.
What is the British naval blockade?
This WWII naval platform replaced the battleship as the dominant force at sea.
What is the aircraft carrier?
This conflict demonstrated the limits of U.S. military power despite technological superiority.
What is the Vietnam War?
This factor often gives insurgents an advantage: support from the ______.
What is the local population?
This policy aimed to stop the spread of communism.
What is containment?
This WWII campaign ensured Allied supply lines to Britain remained open.
What is the Battle of the Atlantic?
This Cold War doctrine relied on the threat of total nuclear destruction to prevent war.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)?
This post-9/11 conflict became America’s longest war.
What is the War in Afghanistan?
This Middle Eastern conflict featured insurgents using IEDs and urban warfare against U.S. forces.
What is the Iraq War?
This country is considered the primary modern competitor to U.S. global power.
What is China?
This concept refers to the ability to use the sea for one’s own purposes while denying it to the enemy.
What is sea control?
This Pacific strategy involved bypassing heavily defended islands to strike strategically important ones.
What is island hopping?
This factor is often critical for long-term success in intervention but was lacking in Vietnam and Iraq.
What is clear strategic objectives / public support / exit strategy?
This is the main challenge for conventional militaries fighting insurgents.
What is identifying and defeating an enemy that blends with civilians?
This concept describes preventing war by threatening unacceptable consequences.
What is deterrence?