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During the first two years of World War I, Germany struggled to overcome a crippling British blockade of its mercantile shipping lanes. With only sixteen dreadnought-class battleships compared to the renowned British Royal Navy's twenty-eight, the German High Seas Fleet stood little chance of winning a direct fight. The Germans staged raids in the North Sea and bombarded English coasts in an attempt to lure small British squadrons into open water where they could be destroyed by submarines and surface boats. After months of skirmishes, conflict erupted on May 31, 1916, in the North Sea...

Der Erste Weltkrieg war in erster Linie ein Krieg, der an verschiedenen Fronten in West-, Ost- und Sudeuropa, aber auch im Mittleren Osten, in Afrika und im Fernen Pazifik ausgefochten wurde. Der Erste Weltkrieg war aber von Beginn an auch ein Seekrieg, ausgetragen auf den Ozeanen der Welt.
Die Schlachten zu Lande dominieren nach wie vor das offentliche Gedenken an den Ersten Weltkrieg. Das spiegelt sich auch in den groen neuen Erzahlungen uber das Kriegsgeschehen: Der Seekrieg wird hier allenfalls am Rande behandelt. Zudem haben nationale Perspektiven immer noch Vorrang vor...

With the creation of the Franco-Russian Alliance and the failure of the Reinsurance Treaty in the late nineteenth century, Germany needed a strategy for fighting a two-front war. In response, Field Marshal Count Alfred von Schlieffen produced a study that represented the apex of modern military planning. His Memorandum for a War against France, which incorporated a mechanized cavalry as well as new technologies in weaponry, advocated that Germany concentrate its field army to the west and annihilate the French army within a few weeks. For generations, historians have considered...