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Trying to starve an enemy into submission is a well known way of forcing a surrender. (Think of sieges, for example). In WW1 both sides tried it on one another, as neither side was self-sufficent in food. Joncey Because in the year 1914 Britain had the largest Navy and in the same year Germany had the most powerful army, and the only way Britain could think to defeat the army by using a navy was to impose a blockade on Germany. The army could not win the war with no supplies of food or weapons.

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