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A maritime power must never take on a continental power's main force directly, and Britain broke that rule at great cost in the First World War.

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  1. Sarah Paine

    Historian of maritime and continental empires who taught strategy at the U.S

    Rule number five, a rule that Britain broke at great cost in World War I. Do not take on the enemy main force directly. You certainly do not do that as an opening move.

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