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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: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:23:15 GMT
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- From "Edward J. Rudnicki" (FSAC-SID) <erudnick@pica.army.mil>
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- Markus Stumptner writes:
- #>> Strategically, Jutland was a clear-cut British victory:
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- #I disagree, since basically, Jutland did not change the strategic
- #situation at all, it just managed to preserve the status quo. Coral
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- My turn to disagree :) The German intent at Jutland was to destroy a
- small element of the Grand Fleet, hopefully paving the way for a
- fleet encounter on more equal terms. They needed to upset the status
- quo.
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- With the British, a decisive defeat of the High Seas Fleet would have
- been a highly desirable result, it would not have been an improvement
- over the status quo. The distant blockade would strangle the German
- economy with or without the High Seas Fleet, and there was no plan to
- follow up the defeat of the latter with an amphibious landing (apart
- from Fisher's Baltic scheme).
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- Put another way, the Germans had much to gain, and in retrospect little
- to lose at Jutland, while the opposite was true for the British.
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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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