RTim - As a New York newspaper at the time assessed Jutland succinctly: ‘The German Fleet has assaulted its jailer, but it is still in jail.’ Jutland, on the tactical level, was indeterminate; on the strategic, it was a British victory. The Imperial German Navy never undertook another serious fleet action. The 6,000 didn't die "For What", for nothing. It should also be pointed out that German casualties weren't light; more than 2,500. Alas, that we fought at all! :/ As for "war protest", I side with HenryP. "My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity." Wilfred Owen. The most moving words you will find (and, being fairly placid as a rule, I am not easily moved) are the ones from WWI, in my opinion, when poetry was yet more popular than nowadays. My favourite is not one of the better known ones; not a Sassoon, Owen, Blunden, Brookes, Rosenberg; but by Ewart Alan Mackintosh. I've posted it at least twice before here, so I'll confine myself now to linking In Memoriam
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