Comments by "Adam Bainbridge" (@AdamMGTF) on "Dreadnought: The Battleship that Changed Everything" video.

  1. A good video. I enjoyed it. I do think your suggestion that Britain was the big looser in the fact that she built dreadnought. Is completely false. The reality is. Dreadnoughts were coming. Whether the RN was first or not. The Tsatsumas were already leaning in that direction. It's similar to the argument the USN had about building a response to hood and if they did the standards would be obsolete. The point was. Hood had made them obsolete already. It didn't matter the how and the why. In the same way. British Pre dreadnoughts were obsolete. So it mattered little if dreadnought was the ship that made it so (the way she was built however was a tour de force as you mention). I disagree with massy and him saying the german government went into panic. That's not how geo politics worked at the time. Even 35 years later in a genuine. Emergency such as that surrounding the meetings at Munich and the sudatenland crisis things still went at a pace we would consider leisurely today. In the case of the facts of a warship becoming known. The type of ship that normally took years to design, build and bring into service. The idea of a instant blind panic just isn't something that would happen among statesman of the time. However impressive it sounds in a video (perhaps intended for laymen it could be forgiven. But how long before such thinking ends up like the modern history channel? I beg of you. Keep things accurate). Things in this time were much slower than they are now. Communication took time and those in power were used to a considered approach and response to situations. Finally. You mention the high sees Fleet and a "break out". Of all people you should know this is a very poor choice of language. I really mean this as constructive criticism as the video was very good. Thanks!
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