Blockades can be military or commercial. A military blockade aims for a specific military objective, such as the capture of a port. A commercial blockade has no immediate military objective but is designed to cause the enemy to surrender or come to terms by cutting off all commercial intercourse by sea. Commercial blockades are more restrictive than embargoes or other acts of economic coercion.
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