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Re: Jutland & Unrestricted Submarine warfare
Posted by: Steve Roberts ()
Date: February 10, 2005 01:15PM

Unrestricted warfare was something the Imperial Navy toyed with throughout the war - it comes through in Admiral Scheer's memoirs as a perpetual struggle between the Navy wanting it and the Kaiser vetoing it as likely to bring the USA into the war.

Jutland didn't really bring it about but it did hasten its introduction. It wasn't so much that the High Seas Fleet failed to beat the Royal Navy at Jutland. The Germans had been shelling eastern Britain in an attempt to draw some RN elements into a confrontation but they always demurred, maintaining their blockade of Germany from a distance.

Jutland was a score-draw waiting to happen.

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Jutland & Unrestricted Submarine warfare James Sabol 02/09/2005 08:34PM
Re: Jutland & Unrestricted Submarine warfare Steve Roberts 02/10/2005 01:15PM
Re: Jutland & Unrestricted Submarine warfare Rene 03/12/2005 05:56PM
Re: Jutland & Unrestricted Submarine warfare BOB O BUILDER 03/22/2005 11:12AM
Re: Jutland & Unrestricted Submarine warfare BOB O BUILDER 03/22/2005 11:09AM


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