Jeune ecole triumphant?

The thread about German Naval Laws seems to have gotten pretty heated but it got me thinking about the jeune ecole. I'm not that deep into military history, but I guess I see the jeune ecole as a concept that called for technology that didn't exist at the time rather than an inherently flawed concept.

With a POD after 1820, can you think of a way for the jeune ecole to become the dominant school of naval thought by 1950? Even better, can you think of a way for it to completely supplant other ideas, like the Mahan fleet-in-being/decisive battle doctrine?

Maybe no major naval warfare except ones where subs are able to have a decisive impact, like the U.S./Japan conflict?
 
If wiki's article on it is correct, it sounds like the kind of school that would only be embraced by those who can't compete with the "heavy" school, which means it will be the weapon of the underdog by definition - not an alternative Dominant Navy tactic.

But I could be wrong here.
 
Yeah, I guess one approach might be to think of a way where a navy that embraced the "weapon of the underdog" somehow emerged victorious from a maritime conflict with a naval power.

Like if the worst fears of the British re: subs and torpedo boats were realized in an early 1900s conflict.
 
Like if the worst fears of the British re: subs and torpedo boats were realized in an early 1900s conflict.

Theres weren't the worst fears of the British in the early 1900s. Fisher's 'flotilla scheme' was centered upon the localized use of submarines and torpedo boats that were reinforced by powerful, fast battlecruisers.

The technical problem with jeune ecole is the light construction of torpedo boats and destroyers. They don't have the range necessary to serve as a true 'blue water' navy and are faily limited to . Undoubtedly, over time things changed with technological advances.
 
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