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I think it helped lengthen the war. America was supporting the Entente powers so much before the Lusitania that I think we were just looking for an excuse to get involved. I think the primary objective of the submarine campaign was not to shatter the blockade but rather to interdict British supply lines between America and Britain. They did a pretty good job too and I think drawing America into the war was inevitable. Allowing the US to continue to "secretly" supply Britain was unacceptable for Germany and without a strong surface fleet they had no option but to revert to submarine warfare. The only way the British were able to protect themselves, even after the US entered the war, was to break up their Navy and do convoy escorting. The Brits followed the Mahan doctrine and sought decisive battle with Germany to "end" the German Navy. They thought they finally had it at the Battle of Jutland, but Jutland was a very indecisive battle with no distinct victor. Jutland was the biggest naval battle of WWI but it had very little effect on the war aside from confirming the German policy of avoiding fleet to fleet battles. This did a lot to disprove some of Mahan's theories.
 
I enjoyed the paper. Germany lost 187 U Boats but sank 5,234 Merchant ships. In 1917 she sank 2,349 merchant ships alone. This makes me think this was not a failure to proceed with Unrestricted Submarine Warfare. I think the decision was impacted by the US entering the war and bringing a better ASW capability (Anti Submarine Warfare) Even with that 1917 was by far the most successful year the Germans had. Germany also sank 10 battleships, 20 destroyers, and 9 submarines.
Interesting side note Germany started working on steels for specific submarine purposes and continued that into WWII and developed HY80 steel but could never perfect the welding process. After WWII the US perfected the welding process and HY80 steel is used today in the most sofisticated submarines we build.
As important as the statement we own the night today back then to own the deep was incredible. The capabilities of a submarine are given to a sigle person to attack at will making independant decisions. I often wonder if the battlefield wouldn't be better off with the same capability.
Mara thanks for sharing.
Bill
 
I know there are a few of us here who are uni/college students. What would you guys think about setting each other practice essays to do and we can critique them? I'm on summer holidays right now with little else to do but I do realise a lot of guys are studying part time while still working full time so I'd understand if people aren't keen.

I'd wager it going something like the person states what the topic would be (depending on what they're weak at or need to work on) and a word limit and the group (or first person) comes up with a question for the person to answer.

Thoughts?
 
I'm not a student just now but I love this idea. I would say that keeping it someplace like the old "groups" would be good though so the spoiled asswipes who troll the internet looking for their next term paper can't pinch them.
 
Yeah I'd like it so that somehow turnitin or similar can't pick it up off google and tell me I'm plagiarising my own work LOL.
 
SpitfireV said:
I know there are a few of us here who are uni/college students. What would you guys think about setting each other practice essays to do and we can critique them? I'm on summer holidays right now with little else to do but I do realise a lot of guys are studying part time while still working full time so I'd understand if people aren't keen.

I'd wager it going something like the person states what the topic would be (depending on what they're weak at or need to work on) and a word limit and the group (or first person) comes up with a question for the person to answer.

Thoughts?
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That's one of the primary purposes of this thread. Post away.

I'll even get a head start on critiquing your essay- "you suck." ;)
 
Excellent. Now, does anyone know if google will pick up the words contained in a PDF attached here? My gut says yes, but my brain says, how the fuck do I know.
 
Dame said:
Let's see.
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Dame said:
Shit. That's not gonna work. There are too many references to Pardus and lambs out there.
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points for style... negative points for lack of pictures... Pardus and the rest of the Southern Hemisphere gang need pictures.... all in all this ends up being a zero sum post.... :cool:
 
Would you guys mind setting a question for me?

Let's say 2k words. I need to work on analysis. My areas of interest are the Cold War, particularly civilian intelligence but the Cold War in general. My major is IR so something roughly related to that would be appreciated.

Thanks!
 
Was the information garnered from Operation Gold of any real value in determining the course of the cold war?
Include information on the melted snow incident and how that and other events might have tipped off Dulles that the operation had been compromised.
 
What about the rise of 'corporate espionage' during the Cold War, and it's links to information security especially in the computer related industries? follow on to that the with the new industries created and how the circular event horizon keeps pushing itself to new heights. just think only 15 years ago 128 bit encryption was the schnizzle, now you need 256meg encryption to even slow some of these guys down.
 

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