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- From: "Edward J. Rudnicki" (FSAC-SID) <erudnick@pica.army.mil>
- Subject: Re: Jutland
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- Organization: NCR Corporation -- Law Department
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 14:43:56 GMT
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- From "Edward J. Rudnicki" (FSAC-SID) <erudnick@pica.army.mil>
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- Markus Stumptner writes:
- #I did find it quite interesting at the time that Keegan, who started
- #out on psychological issues of warfare, ended up analyzing Jutland in
- #terms of number of hits to be repaired.
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- My gripe with the Jutland section of "The Price of Admiralty" is that
- Keegan keeps emphasizing that ships such as those at Jutland had never
- fought before, and that everything was new to all the players. In fact,
- much of Jutland was mirrored in Tsushima. If Makarov commanded the
- Second Pacific Squadron the end result might have been similar too.
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- As a subpart of this, Keegan criticizes the presence of the British
- armored cruisers, implying that they should have known better. In fact
- they didn't. One of the incorrect lessons learned from Tsushima was
- that armored cruisers could engage battleships successfully. Even with
- the general level of incompetence of the Russians, some of Kamimura's
- cruisers took a substantial pounding; if the Russians knew what they were
- doing the Japanese might have lost a few. Anyway, the Germans learned
- the folly of sending armored cruisers against dreadnoughts at Dogger
- Bank. If Coronel is forgotten, the British never learned that lesson,
- and paid for it with 3 ships at Jutland.
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- Ed Rudnicki erudnick@pica.army.mil All disclaimers apply
- "War must be looked upon as a business, and subject, like any other business,
- to business principles. War is the business of destruction of life and
- property of an enemy.....The most deadly and destructive implements of war
- are the most humane, and the producers of them may justly be looked upon as
- humanitarians." ----- Hudson Maxim (the other Maxim)
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