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Who won the War at Sea?

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Who won the War at Sea?

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The winner of the War at sea was, without question, the British (and thus the Allies). To determine the winner, one should not look at how many ships were sunk. (The allies lost more ships to enemy fire.) Rather, one should look at the purpose of a navy, and whether or not the navy accomplished its purpose. Ultimately, the purpose of a navy is to make the ocean safe for its own merchant and transport vessels, while denying the use of the oceans to vessels of the opposing side. The British navy accomplished the former reasonably well, and the latter to a degree that was almost total. Within a month, merchant ships of the Central Powers had all been captured by the allies, interred for the duration of the war in ports or neutral countries, or at best, bottled up in their home waters, unable to venture outside the Baltic Sea. Ships of the allies, on the other hand, could sail over the entire world. Although “freedom of the seas,” otherwise known as the right of neutral countries to trade

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