{"id":102058,"date":"2026-08-31T02:00:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T06:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=102058"},"modified":"2026-04-22T21:17:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:17:47","slug":"terrible-naval-plans-five-of-the-worst-ideas-of-naval-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/terrible-naval-plans-five-of-the-worst-ideas-of-naval-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrible Naval Plans &#8211; Five of the worst ideas of naval history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TfXM37uW4kQ?si=Dk9g6e0vzSpQP20R\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Drachinifel<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 22 Apr 2026<\/p>\n<p>Today we look at some of the worst thought out naval strategies and plans of all time, as selected by me.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 &#8211; Intro<br \/>\n00:34 &#8211; Selection Criteria<br \/>\n02:17 &#8211; The 1914 Dardanelles Bombardment<br \/>\n11:38 &#8211; Britain&#8217;s post-WW2 Carrier Plan<br \/>\n29:01 &#8211; Germany&#8217;s High Seas Fleet Build-Up<br \/>\n38:43 &#8211; French attempts to invade Ireland<br \/>\n44:16 &#8211; The US &#8220;we don&#8217;t need a navy&#8221; plan<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drachinifel Published 22 Apr 2026 Today we look at some of the worst thought out naval strategies and plans of all time, as selected by me. 00:00 &#8211; Intro 00:34 &#8211; Selection Criteria 02:17 &#8211; The 1914 Dardanelles Bombardment 11:38 &#8211; Britain&#8217;s post-WW2 Carrier Plan 29:01 &#8211; Germany&#8217;s High Seas Fleet Build-Up 38:43 &#8211; French [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,1118,7,5,13,246,230],"tags":[617,108,1419,33,30,1575],"class_list":["post-102058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-germany","category-history","category-military","category-usa","category-ww1","category-ww2","tag-carriers","tag-coldwar","tag-drachinifel","tag-ireland","tag-navy","tag-strategy"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qy6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102059,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102058\/revisions\/102059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}