Then you might understand it wrongly.As I understand it the entire admiralty IOTL thought it a grave mistake to battle the Royal Navy In WW1, a mistake not to repeat. They wanted to fight France and Poland next time.
ITTL they think they should have won, and the RN is the strategic adversary next time. That is quite a profound difference.
Btw : how do you come to this understanding ??
Before WW1 they were keen to battle the RN. ... and afterwards as well. The RN was always the yard stick they wanted to measured against and they wanted to measure themself against - best in direct 'competition' aka fight. A view burned into them by Tirpitz for decades and never truly overcome until 1945, maybe a couple of years earlier.
Post-wWW1 the insight of the mistake to battle the RN came IOTL rather late and then 'only' about the method :
NOT fighting battles of 'rows of iron knights'
but
fight for the sea-lanes in the vastness of the oceans
And though Behnke and Zenker seemed to honestly try to change such thinking and Gröner outright 'forbade' thinking of fighting Britain again ... it was done nevertheless, even if the targets had to be diminished according to the diminished means left for the german navy.but
fight for the sea-lanes in the vastness of the oceans
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