Although no naval battle decisively influenced the course of the war, the war for control of the seas was vital to the winning of the war. Equally key to the Central Powers' war aims was the campaign of submarine warfare that struck at Allied shipping. One of the key elements of the Allies' strategy was a naval blockade of Germany the Allies hoped to starve Germany of the food and raw materials it needed to wage war. This does not mean, however, that affairs of the sea were not crucial to the waging of war. There were relatively few naval battles in the war, and the important ones were won by the British navy, which succeeded in keeping the German navy pinned down in its ports on the North Sea. World War I was a land war, with its biggest and most important battles fought on the battlefields of Europe.
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