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July 17, 2008 - 2:16 pm - by Richard Fernandez
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2008-07-18 08:18:49

The Battle of the Atlantic was not that close a win.

At their best, the U-boats only managed to sink 5% of the Allied shipping.

As Clay Blair, author of the definitive work on the U-boat war pointed out, you don’t win by stopping a mere 5% of your adversaries’ supplies.