The Sumter's search-and-destroy missions were part of the Confederate navy's strategy to weaken Union commerce.
"The Chinese navy is a ceremonial navy.
By 1798 the British Royal Navy had successfully contained the French Navy within its own harbours, employing a strategy of close blockade to ensure dominance at sea during the French Revolutionary Wars.
All of this comes at a fraction of the cost of the heavy military, air and navy operations that currently characterize our security strategy, and is the sort of move discouraged by the defense industry, which prefers big-ticket military equipment like the multibillion-dollar Joint Strike Fighter.
Navy victories are shaded in navy blue.
Even more than cowing its neighbours, China's island-building strategy would seem to have the US navy as its primary focus.
But this strategy aids the smugglers, who say European navies act as an auxiliary ferry service.
An automatic adaptive refinement technique has been coupled to the multigrid approach to produce an efficient and stable solution strategy for solving the steady-state incompressible Navier-Stokes equations.
In Australia the conservative Nationalist Party government of Stanley Bruce latched onto the Singapore strategy, which called for reliance on the British navy, supported by a naval squadron as strong as Australia could afford.
