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Commerce raiding
Form of naval warfare / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Commerce raiding[1] is a form of naval warfare used to destroy or disrupt logistics of the enemy on the open sea by attacking its merchant shipping, rather than engaging its combatants or enforcing a blockade against them.[2][3]
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