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Jack Fisher was a British admiral and a total revolutionary in naval war. He developed the first large dreadnought battleship and invented many new types of ships in his time.
He developed a brilliant strategy for a potential war with Germany, to land a number of troops off the german coast a few hundred miles from Berlin itself.

He said that to send troops to the front in a Continental war was total stupidity. He was right with that. I am discussing world war one, not two. The trenches and lines that were stuck for years along france and Yipers, Somme, Verdun.

I think it was never really done because it was never conceived in that time. Landings of troops were done in friendly territory. It was never conceived or thought of to try to land in enemy area and fight to claim it. That was never done until the next war.

Fisher started building a fleet to try it, and some very stupid ships for it. Like the Glorious, a enlarged destroyer with one 18 gun on it.

So for this, lets assume the british built a proper fleet to make the worlds first landing on enemy territory, and landed a 10,000 troops in Pomerania around 1914

How would it have gone
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