Originally Posted by
Lonewolf_50
For those of you who are not maritime professionals, suggest you read up how Sir Julian Corbett and Alfred Thayer Mahan discuss blockades:
Close Blockades and Distant Blockades.
To be honest, I am not sure what the current aim is, since the rhetoric and the actions I see reported in the media do not match up.
With your experience would you say there were any concise aims in place at the beginning of this operation or indeed proper planning to achieve them, if there were any?