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Territorial goals based on ideology. However, the territorial goals drove the war, particularly after France was taken out. Based on ideology alone, Hitler could have stopped after France fell and decided that he had gained enough living space in Europe for the time being. Instead he...

A Guerre de Course strategy (aka raiding) is an admission by the nation using it that they cannot compete at sea with their opponent. It is a spoiler rather than a winning strategy. In WW 1 the German's best course of action given the size of their fleet relative to that of Britain was...

Even in WW 2 the same problems occur. You still need a LOX plant. That in turn increases the size and complexity of boats. That in turn means fewer of them. Then there's the dangers involved in using LOX on the sub at all. Outside the engineering hazards involved, the boat needs to be...

Where would the boat get the LOX to fuel them? LOX is not a storable propellant in the sense that you can load the torpedo and keep it filled for any great length of time. All Japanese surface ships that used the Long Lance had a LOX plant on board to fuel the torpedoes. In a WW 1 U-boat...