French destroyers have performed well while the campaign's destroyer force has received too little investment. The shortfall is a direct result of the challenge to build as many battlecruisers as possible. That concentration creates an unbalanced fleet whose expensive capital ships lack enough modern screening and torpedo craft. Every battlecruiser bought has displaced another capability the fleet may need in combat.
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A battlecruiser building challenge leaves too few destroyers
Concentrating construction on battlecruisers produces a powerful capital fleet but leaves the destroyer force underdeveloped.