AHC: destroy the US navy in the Interwar Period

any way you can manage it, if you can think of a conflict that would destroy it that's fine, but poor management, other things are fine too.
 

trurle

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Honda Point Disaster in 1923 happening with battleships squadron instead of destroyers. IOTL, 7 destroyers were lost and 2 damaged. It could have been much worse.
 

Md139115

Banned
Honda Point Disaster in 1923 happening with battleships squadron instead of destroyers. IOTL, 7 destroyers were lost and 2 damaged. It could have been much worse.

Even better, seven days prior was the Great Kantō Earthquake. If the US navy decided to do a repeat trip of the Great White Fleet, they could be in the wrong place at the wrong time and the Japanese navy might gain some new shore installations!

Love to see the diplomatic fallout from that one!
 
Even better, seven days prior was the Great Kantō Earthquake. If the US navy decided to do a repeat trip of the Great White Fleet, they could be in the wrong place at the wrong time and the Japanese navy might gain some new shore installations!

Love to see the diplomatic fallout from that one!
That would probably lead to the USN getting stronger, not weaker as the WNT says
(c) In case of loss or accidental destruction of capital ships or aircraft carriers, they may immediately be replaced by new construction subject to the tonnage limits prescribed in Articles IV and VII and in conformity with the other provisions of the present Treaty, the regular replacement program being deemed to be advanced to that extent.
So the US basically gets to build as many new battleships as have been lost, and can build much better ships, and keep its naval industry warm. The only way it makes things worse is if the ships are not replaced, and that would require political PODs that make it easier just to avoid accidents

The Honda Point Disaster was caused by the Great Kanto Earthquake anyways, the quake screwed up currents which made navigation errors happen

Edit: To the OP the easiest way to "destroy" the USN in the interwar, would be for someone to come up with the idea to unify the US services, with the US Navy becoming the Maritime component of the American Defense Forces or something to that effect
 
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This is ASB, unless the USA loses a war where the USN is reduced to a coast guard (sort of a Versailles in reverse), which is awful close to ASB. While navies are expensive, especially beginning in the middle third of the 19th century, the role of the navy in protecting the USA was accepted, even when cheese paring caused issues. If some "disaster" wrecks a bunch of navy ships in the interwar period, they will get replaced. Even the most extreme isolationists tended to be more accepting of spending on the navy - used for defense of our "moats" - as opposed to the army which was going to be used to go elsewhere as the threat of a land attack from Canada or Mexico was minimal.
 
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