The Kaiser’s navy enjoyed great success before collapsing in revolution. It mounted a formidable U-boat campaign so effective that in early 1917 the first sea lord, Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, held the view that the British could not hang on much longer.
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It was not until after the Spanish-American War that Britain was able to accede to Washington’s view that the Caribbean had ceased to be a British lake and had become a central point of American strategic thinking. https://t.co/Oi9ynoUWFZ
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