Requirements are prioritized to determine which requirements will be included and excluded from the project. Rationale/Purpose Defining requirements specifies the capabilities, features or attributes of the projectâs deliverables.
On January 31, 1917, Germany, determined to win its war of attrition against the Allies, announced it would resume unrestricted warfare in war-zone waters. Three days later, the United States broke diplomatic relations with Germany, and just hours after that the American ship Housatonic was sunk by a German U-boat.
The captain of the captured ship would be ordered to come aboard the U-boat bringing the shipâs papers. Once the crew made a distress call and abandoned ship, the Germans would take possession of the ship as a prize of war. The U-boat crew then had the right under rules of war to sink it.