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With a PoD after 1900, what's the earliest that US Navy could fight the Royal Navy to a standstill in a one-on-one war, without bankrupting the US government?
With a PoD after 1900, what's the earliest that US Navy could fight the Royal Navy to a standstill in a one-on-one war, without bankrupting the US government?
and by 1917 the US battleships were a match for the British,
With a PoD after 1900, what's the earliest that US Navy could fight the Royal Navy to a standstill in a one-on-one war, without bankrupting the US government?
Is there a Great War? If Britain is not bankrupted it could much longer than OTL.
Assume that there's no WWI.
Given the British Ship Building industry was not exceeded by the US until the late 30s at the earliest in OTL - I would say 1942?
But too much depends on what the POD was and why the 2 nations are engaged in a Dreadnaught race.
As for Qualatitive ships - the Pennsylvania class certainly matched the Iron Dukes but certainly not the Queens or the Revenges or for that matter the Bayern class
The Civil War
By 1865, the Union Army was the largest on Earth.
Lincoln even said this in a letter, but I'm not sure where I can find it.
The Union Army was also the largest on Earth.
When the war ended, Britain was so scared that the US would have nothing to do with it and just send it up to Canada.
If the U.S. makes matching Britain militarily a priority, wouldn't one assume they'd rapidly expand the shipbuilding industry? And the U.S.'s total industrial potential had exceeded that of Britain at some point prior to 1914, IIRC.
Yes - but with out a more detailed description of the POD we can only go on OTL ship building and Britain possessed the finest Ship building industry in the world until WW2 saw the US jump ahead.
Also qualititivly Britain was leading the race as far as innovation was concerned Dreadnaught, Invincable, Queen Elizabeth, and then the unbuilt G3s all did or would have maintained the Gap between them and their 'peers' - this race however ended in 1921 when diplomats ensured parity between both nations (or the English Speaking and thinking world totally dominating everyone else depending on your POV).
Maybe if Hellbent on exceeding the Brits and no battleship Holiday both Nations would have continued to build ships would have eventually resulted in the USA from over hauling them - probably in the late 20s and early 30s.
But it would have to be a hell of a POD and would have serious knock on effects in the US as the money would have to come from somewhere.....
With a PoD after 1900, what's the earliest that US Navy could fight the Royal Navy to a standstill in a one-on-one war, without bankrupting the US government?