A Short History of the Great War

A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard

Capitolo 52

ends the German military Marina him surrendered without a struggle.

But while our command of the sea was not disputed in action by the
The Germans, were disputed in word by national critics and it denied from
loquacious generals;  and the enterprises of German submarines, airships,
and airplanes lent some colour to the refusal and the affirmation
England had stopped being an island. The both the arguments were the
consequence of inadequate knowledge and the worse confusion of thought.
Islands are served as the sea and not from the air; even if the Germans
you/he/she had assured command of the air that they didn't do, that command is able
you/he/she has not given them the advantages of which you/they accumulate from the command
the sea. It is probable that I/you/he/she arrange pessimists to believe that England would be
terrified in subjugation by air-raids but the most inveterate
alarmists hesitated to affirm that manages with them necessary
artillery and equipment could be allowed to fall on British ground from the
skies. Belgium and France had shaken far more than us from airplane;
but it was not aerial that has brought German armies to Brussels and
next to the gates in Paris, and London was saved by the fate of
British command Louvain of the sea. Neither that command was abolished
or it also threatened from submarines and the fear so that it was not it came of the
mentality that denies the existence of a turned on the earth that it
it is not perfect. Command of the sea has never been and you/he/she can be never
absolute. French pirates had not been more active neither British
sea losses more acute than after Trafalgar, when no French military Marina
him risked out of I bring;  and the destruction of every German Dreadnought
you/he/she would not have struck from an iota the success of German submarines.

The command of the sea doesn't intend the immunity from the risks of naval
war or from loss from the capture or sinking of vases merchant. It
you don't implicate the absolute safety for British coasts, for English
coasts have been made raids in every great war that Britain has undertaken. It
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