To blockade the Confederate Ports, intercepting the blockade runners and hunt down the Confederate cruisers, which were trying to capture or sink the Union merchant ships, throughout the seas.
The Anaconda Plan
Anaconda Plan
the union won the civil war !
It was to blocade Confederate ports and intercept war materiel from Europe.
Until the end of the war, tactics on both sides remained the same as in Napoleonic times. The union strategy was a blockade strategy at sea and on the rivers, coupled with a total war strategy to destroy the means of producing war supplies on land.
well the unions plan was know as the anaconda plan. the idea was to "constrict" the south by their three way plan
Many if not most military analysts and historians refer to the military term of strategy which is broad in scope. Strategy is tied into both the military plans along with to the ideas about a nation's political objectives for which a war is being fought. In the US Civil War, as an example, the way to reach the Unions political goals was to formulate a successful military strategy.
The lost less tonnage of ships.
The Unions strategy was to make a naval barricade around the south to prevent them from recieving any supplies, eventually the Confederates would run out of neccesities and surrender.(The Anaconda Method)
They attacked by land and by sea from all sorts of angles and directions.
Total War: Destroying everything in his path.
Washington D.C was the unions capital.