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Originally Posted by Jimbuna
I now realise what you meant earlier  |
Adm. Beatty at Jutland engaging Hipper's Squadron:" There's something wrong with our ships today." Uttered as he witnessed the Arizona style (HMS Hood) explosions of his battle cruisers, later found to be from careless powder handling and lack of flash protections. His bad day at Jutland was only superseded by Scheer's own mishandling of his High Seas Fleet. Adm. Jellico, not hearing from Beatty, essentially his scout element, where the enemy was at, made one of the greatest and intuitive battle decisions of naval warfare, completely in the blind, in turning an entire fleet from column into line ahead to the left and crossing Scheer's T in the classic maneuver. Sheer, forced to retire in darkness, never ventured forth again. WWI, essentially for German world dominance, essentially ended in 1916 that day... the war on land continued futilely in the trenches until 1918. All things at sea are strategic, all things on land are tactical...Mahan supersedes Von Clauscewitz.
