The point separates design intent from later wartime employment. Fisher's fast, powerful ships formed part of a strategy meant to make conflict unattractive, not simply another division for trading fire in the main line. Their later use as quasi-battleships therefore reflects institutional and wartime pressures as much as the original conception.
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Fisher designed battlecruisers for deterrence, not the battle line
A comment on battlecruiser employment stresses that Fisher's construction program was intended to deter war and avoid a conventional battle line.