The Long-Term Strategy of Planting Oak Trees for Naval Supremacy
This meme humorously highlights a historical long-term planning strategy involving the Swedish Navy. It features an image of a historical wooden warship alongside the Swedish flag, with text suggesting that planting 300,000 oak trees was a deliberate effort to prepare for future naval conflict against Britain. The bottom panel shows a modern naval fleet, contrasting the wooden sailing ships of the past with the steel-hulled vessels of today, illustrating how the intended purpose of the timber became obsolete due to rapid advancements in military technology over the course of 150 years.
And know. Something good today: vast, magnificent forests. They absorb more in carbon as Sweden produces. They didn't become warships. They serve a far greater purpose.
Officers quarter have some lovely oak paneling on the walls I bet.
We need to level farm land and divert drinkable water so in 20 years once we have built all these A.I data centers.....
A shame iron doesn’t grow on trees, imagine the amount of battleships you could build, or the size of battleships you could build…
Would you stop copying everything we do!!
Having wood is good.
Thats Denmark navy not Sweden.
Just reminder: USS Enterprise (CVN-65) seen through the periscope of German Type 206A-class diesel-electric submarine U-24 (S-173) during SUBEX01 in the training area off Puerto Rico. U-24 was the Red Forces & did "sink" the Big E with 4 simulated torpedoes.
well,these days you dont need fleet made of 300k trees to defeat British navy.Canoe and potato gun will do the job.
Well, at least they were planning for the future.