“Landing the German Army South of Reval.”
We are five times stronger at Sea than our enemies and here is a small Fleet that we could gobble up in a few minutes playing the great vital Sea part of landing an Army in the enemies’ rear and probably capturing the Russian Capital by Sea!
This is “Holding the ring” with a vengeance!
Are we really incapable of a big Enterprise?
I hear that a new order of Knighthood is on the tapis—O.M.G. (Oh! My God!)—Shower it on the Admiralty!!
Yours,
Fisher.
9/9/17.
P.S.—In War, you want—“SURPRISE.”
To beget “SURPRISE” you want “IMAGINATION” to go to bed with “AUDACITY.”
Admiral von Spee’s first words at the Falkland Islands when he saw the British Battle Cruisers were
“Oh, what a surprise”!