Great series about the war. We’re just getting into it. Would like to hear more about strategies and overall goals for the sea arm. Coming from Belgium, we’re more familiar with the land war, although as children we used to play around the old Ostend submarine pens.
Thanks for reading. I've published three articles so far covering the Great War at sea. The link below will take you to the series page, which has links to all articles published to date.\
Never understood why Germany continued the naval race after 1914.
Britain had an insurmountable lead (especially with the Turkish and Chilean ships added).
And Britain showed that they could out produce Germany in ship building.
Plus the navy took a large share of scarce German resources (going from memory, but remember a line from "Castles of Steel "; "Germany paid a high price for the excellence of her ships").
The 1914 fleet was sufficient for a "fleet in being".
The six pre-dreadnaughts and other ships could have been scrapped.
It seems that ego (as so often) overrode strategy.
Great series about the war. We’re just getting into it. Would like to hear more about strategies and overall goals for the sea arm. Coming from Belgium, we’re more familiar with the land war, although as children we used to play around the old Ostend submarine pens.
Thanks for reading. I've published three articles so far covering the Great War at sea. The link below will take you to the series page, which has links to all articles published to date.\
https://unwokeindianaag.substack.com/p/the-great-war-series-table-of-contents
Thank you!
Never understood why Germany continued the naval race after 1914.
Britain had an insurmountable lead (especially with the Turkish and Chilean ships added).
And Britain showed that they could out produce Germany in ship building.
Plus the navy took a large share of scarce German resources (going from memory, but remember a line from "Castles of Steel "; "Germany paid a high price for the excellence of her ships").
The 1914 fleet was sufficient for a "fleet in being".
The six pre-dreadnaughts and other ships could have been scrapped.
It seems that ego (as so often) overrode strategy.
Kaiser Bill and his obsession with his boats. He suffered from a massive case of Anglo-envy.