ABSTRACT
The break-up of the High Command separated tactical development from operational planning in so far as the former became the responsibility of the Command of the First Squadron and subsequently of the Command of the Fleet and the latter of the Admiralty Staff. Both tactics and operational planning would be affected by the growth of the fleet, new ship types, and changes in artillery, which were basically within the purview of the Imperial Naval Office, had been the leader of the tactical and operational developments in the old High Command. For British supremacy was overwhelming and the better German mobilization measures would make little difference since numerous political circumstances demonstrate that England will avoid neither inconvenience nor expense in preparing herself in terms of matériel and personnel for a naval war as soon as it is impending.
