The proposed fleet did not need to defeat the Royal Navy outright. It needed to threaten enough damage in German waters that a British blockade would become strategically unacceptable. Tirpitz expected minefields, torpedo boats, and geography to magnify German strength and leave Britain vulnerable even after a nominal victory. The argument assumed British forces would have to operate close to those hazards, yet the video stresses that British blockading practice already separated an inshore squadron from a more distant main fleet. That historical practice weakened the geographic premise on which the theory depended.
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How the risk-fleet theory expected to trap Britain
Tirpitz expected a fleet, mines, and torpedo craft to make a close British blockade so costly that Britain would avoid it.