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During the 18th & 19th Centuries the British as a naval power demonstrated a fair amount of ability at littoral warfare, using a combination of naval and ground forces to exercise power from the sea to land. But in the early 20 Century that skill was apparent only in small actions like the Zeebruge raid. Larger combined operations were either not executed due to reluctance or went badly like the Gallipoli campaign.

What if the British had anticipated the US military by some 30-40 years and in the latter 19th Century developed their experience into a solid littoral warfare or amphibious warfare doctrine. Something that would provide the basis for prosecuting much more aggresive and sucessfull operations than seen in the Great War?

Could this have made any practical difference in British/Allied strategy & how the war was executed? The Dardanelles campaign is the obvious, but others around the perhiphery of the Central Powers can be thought of.
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