Blockades

October 1962 confrontation between the Soviet Union, Cuba and the United States

undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982

blockade on Berlin imposed by the USSR from 1948 to 1949

thumb|upright=1.3|''Winfield Scott|Scott's great snake'', a cartoon map illustrating the Union blockade of the Confederacy during the [[American Civil War, known as the Anaconda Plan, illustrated by J.B. Elliott]] thumb|Douglas C-47 Skytrain|C47s unloading at [[Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, part of the airlift of supplies which broke the Soviet Union's 1948 land blockade of West Berlin]]

territory where aircraft aren't allowed to fly over

2023 Houthi attacks on Red Sea

1991 JNA/Serb led siege

Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a major maritime choke point for world energy trade, has been largely blocked by Iran since 28 February 2026, when the United States and Israel launched an air war against Iran and assassinated its supreme leader Ali Khamenei. In retaliation, Iran launched missile and drone attacks on Israel, US military bases, and US-allied Gulf states. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) issued warnings forbidding passage through the strait, has boarded and attacked merchant ships, and has laid sea mines in the strait. Since 13 April, the US has blockaded Iranian ports, leading to a "dual blockade" of the strait. Until the US–Israeli war against Iran, the Strait of Hormuz was open and about 25% of the world's seaborne oil trade and 20% of the world's liquefied natural gas (LNG) passed through it.

2000 ongoing blockade of the Gaza Strip by Israel and Egypt

2025–2026 US military anti-drug trafficking operation

2022 part of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

1923 Greek–Italian military crisis

U.S. Union Army outline strategy for suppressing the Confederacy at the beginning of the American Civil War

type of temporary demilitarized zone

naval blockade from December 1902 to February 1903

1584 siege

watercraft type

series of mutinies in the Brazilian Navy

1967–1970 event in the Nigerian Civil War

Blockade in Madhesh Region of Nepal

1845 naval blockade

international code of maritime law

Illegal blockade of Yemen by Arabs

a princely state of British India, located in what is now Gujarat

1993 multi-year joint naval blockade in the Adriatic Sea by NATO and the Western European Union

1990 geopolitical event

ongoing humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia which resulting from the Tigray War (since 2020)

Document by the International Institute of Humanitarian Law

blockade of oil shipments to Rhodesia

2026 Iran war aerial campaign

naval blockade policy of Republic of China