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A thread, which I read a few weeks ago, was discussing the plausibility of an oceangoing Austro-Hungarian navy.

Although the consens was that AH had the least reason of the great powers to build such a navy, the matter intrigued me. What would be the effects and consequences if the focus was put on a jeune ecole navy?

No navy of that time ever dedicated themselves completely to the jeune ecole doctrine. France did from time to time, but their policies changed very often in that field. It would be interesting to see an AH navy modelled after the jeune ecole and the italian response to it, especially given the advantageous geography AH had for such a navy.

In retrospective of WW1 many people have critisized the huge amount of money AH has spent on mediocre dreadnaughts. Money that would have better spent elsewhere, so where would that money be spent elsewhere?
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