From New Wars:
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong… but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Eccesiastes 9:11
Still keeping with our theme of “New Wars”, we journey back to the last great war at sea for some historical lessons.
In lists of battleships most favored in the Second World War, when the mighty dreadnoughts ended their reign as capital ship, are familiar factors including size (”The Biggest“), speed (”the fastest“), armament, (”most dangerous“), or even “all of the above“. My own list would include which battleship was the most crucial toward winning the war against the Axis Powers, the German, Japanese, and Italian Navies.
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