Italy's balanced fleet is contrasted with Germany's difficulty assembling a comprehensive surface task force. Italian officers could train through fleet evolutions that joined different ship types into a coherent formation. German deployments more often separated ships into distinct task groups even when the available force structure could theoretically support concentration. The Norwegian campaign illustrates how fragmentation could deny Germany the practical strength its ships appeared to possess on paper.
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Balanced fleets versus fragmented task groups
Italy could assemble coherent mixed task forces, while Germany often dispersed ships into separate groups despite possessing the components on paper.