I was arguing with another person the other day. This person claimed that the leadership of the German navy was lackluster and that they could have plausibly(though admittedly difficult) defeated Britain in the naval theatre in the early stages of the Great War by going all out before the disparity between the the KM and the RN grows too large. I argued that even if the KM won,the RN would have just built more ships, and that KM probably would have been too damaged to exploit much. What do you guys think?