Better German naval strategy 1930-1945? (1 Viewer)

[Shortround6]

Some of his calculations for rates of fire and/or ammo consumption seem a bit off. If Exeter lost B Turret on Spee's 8th Salvo that changes most of the calculations in the first 5-6 minutes.

 

[z42]

Returning to this dormant thread.

I recently stumbled upon a couple of recentish articles claiming that the German naval (surface) strategy wasn't as daft as commonly believed, and that Raeder wasn't just a strongly traditionalist character intent upon recreating the WWI High Seas Fleet and duking it out with the enemy in a Mahan-esque Jutland 2.0 engagement.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/26396677

https://www.jstor.org/stable/48731961

Drawing from naval theorists of the "continental school" like Castex and Wegener rather than the classical ones like Mahan and Corbett, the idea being that an inferior navy can keep the enemy on their toes, and with constant movement strike the enemy where he doesn't expect and where local superiority can temporarily be gained. Also, submarines, surface ships, and air power working together means the enemy must devote disproportionate effort to countering a full-spectrum threat.