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Why were dreadnoughts so prized pre-WW1 but proved relatively inconsequential during WW1? How was everybody so wrong about the nature of coming the conflict? Why weren't enhanced ship to shore capabilities developed?

by /u/Jdazzle217 in /r/AskHistorians

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