>But what precisely did they hope to accomplish by it?
Before the buildup they were in fact allied with the UK against France, but Wilhem "Spaghetti Arm" II fucked up all of Bismarck's geopolitical plans by angering the bongs cuz MUH GROSS REICH MUST HAVE A GIGANT FLOTTE and allowed France to ally Russia wich basically lead to Germoney loosing WW1
WWI naval strength
Cameron Stewart
Owen Baker
Naval power was considered essential to being seen as a great power in that era, an American (forgot his name) released a highly influential book that helped push that line of thought.
Anthony Gray
en.wikipedia.org
in 1922 we had 7m population and Turkey had 12m
Ryder Jenkins
>Turkey had 12m
What the fuck happened over there?
Thomas Morgan
Mahan
Angel Foster
Hunter Ross
So this is the power of KARA BOĞA
Luis Stewart
this is the power of the KURT BVLL
wish my semen was as strong as theirs
Connor Thompson
"Risikotheorie". The German Empire in fact wanted to ally Britain in order to gain greater global influence and to be able to expand and defend it's colonies. Britain wasn't particularly interested in that so Wilhelm and his admirals wanted to "convince" them by having such a big fleet that it would be a risk for Britain's naval supremacy in case of war. The buildup in itself was also a risk though, hence the double meaning of "risk" in "risk theory". There would be a time span in which Britain would be able to destroy Germany's fleet without too much risk for their own fleet. In this time span Germany needed to avert war with Britain but they failed.
Julian Jackson
Not enough. Gott strafe England!