The Air is going to win the War owing to the sad and grievous other neglects.
(2) The Water:
Here we have a very simple proposition. Now that America has joined us, we have a simply overwhelming sea preponderance!
Are you not going to do anything with this?
Make the German Fleet fight, and you win the war!
How can you make the German Fleet fight? By undertaking on a huge scale, with an immense Armada of special rapidly-built craft, an operation that threatens the German Fleet’s existence!
That operation, on the basis in my mind, is one absolutely sure of success, because the force employed is so gigantic as to be negligible of fools.
If you sweep away the German Fleet, you sweep away all else and end the War, as then you have the Baltic clear and a straight run of some 90 miles only from the Pomeranian Coast to Berlin, and it is the Russian Army we want to enter Berlin, not the English or French.
Yours truly,
(Signed) Fisher.
Lord Fisher to a Friend.
February 28th, 1918.