Jeune Ecole contained worthwhile ideas despite its larger weaknesses. Admiral Jacky Fisher excelled at reading other people's concepts and converting them into practical policy. His flotilla-defense doctrine drew heavily on Jeune Ecole thinking and gave small craft a defined place within a complete fleet. The borrowed concept worked because Fisher placed it inside a wider strategy that specified what the surrounding fleet components would do.
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Fisher makes Jeune Ecole ideas useful inside a wider fleet
The closing doctrinal lesson is that Fisher borrowed useful flotilla concepts and made them practical by assigning them a defined place within a complete fleet strategy.