Firstly, militarism was the cause of World War I because of the army issue. When the nations see the need for a strong army and navy to settle disputes with other countries. When they said 60% of the German army is not that stronger than Britain. Britain thought that there was going to win, because they were stronger. This shows that the two countries had big gap in-between each other.
Secondly, there was a race between Britain and Germany to build sees you can build a stronger