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That doesn't make any sense. The Germans did execute the Schlieffen Plan, but failed to carry it through because the Schlieffen Plan was delusionally optimistic to the point where it did not include *any* contingency planning at all. Germany's strategy involved assuming that everything would...

I don't think he's "blowing off" the importance of small arms; he's pointing out that the war material supplied by the United States in WWI was not the massive, decisive contribution that it was in WWII. The involvement of the United States in WWII was absolutely pivotal and essentially...

Keep in mind that from the end of the nineteenth century until WWI started, Great Britain and Germany were already in an active naval arms race over dreadnought construction. Germany actually tried to call the race off in 1912, proposing a deal in which Germany would cease new dreadnought...

That might be a problem for Great Britain, but the United States has the economy to literally build more everything in all categories, and better quality designs to boot.

I would point out that 18" guns were historically determined to be substantially non-optimal. The best caliber for battleship guns is 16", but the British 15"/42 is already all-around superior to Bismarck's 38 cm SK C/34. Bismarck is a large and powerful ship, but she's fundamentally a minor...

To add a bit more detail, "CQD" is an extension of the prior convention of "CQ" as an "all stations" call, being literally "CQ Distress", i.e. "Transmitting to all stations, I am in distress."