Even after WWI the USN apparently had plans to wage war against Britain during the 1920s. Could anybody design a POD which enables such a conflict to occur, and what'd be the course and consequences ?
Melvin Loh said:Even after WWI the USN apparently had plans to wage war against Britain during the 1920s. Could anybody design a POD which enables such a conflict to occur, and what'd be the course and consequences ?
Melvin Loh said:Even after WWI the USN apparently had plans to wage war against Britain during the 1920s. Could anybody design a POD which enables such a conflict to occur, and what'd be the course and consequences ?
A US Brit war in that decade is difficult but possible. One way is to reach back as far as 1914-15. In OTL skilled Brit diplomacy and a bungling German foreign office pulled-pushed the US to the Allied camp. Let imagine the Germans were a bit better at the diplomatic game and the Brits made more mistakes, the result being the US remains nuetral & more connected to Germany.
Eventually the Great War ends with Germany defeated. Britain is suffering from its war debts, some of which are owed to US banks, & its general balance in trade with the US less than what the Brits might consider favorable. A faction within the British government regards the Yanks as moraly bankrupt supporters of Germany, bloodsucking war profitiers. This faction pushes through a popular policy of abbrogating a small portion of the debts to US banks which threaten to bankrupt certain UK businesses.
In retaliation the US government threatens to occupy and "liberate" the remaining British territories in the Caribbean under the pretext of the Monroe Doctrine and thinking of the Spanish American War as favorable precedent.
That should do it
Dude, this thread is SEVEN YEARS OLD.
I am and Anglophile...but it has always gotten me that the UK used the largest Navy in the world to prevent American and others from trading with Germany during the war. Germany used the sub...and sometimes rather stupidly or atleast a little ahead of the times...Exclusion Zones and warning neutrals not to enter or travel on combatant ships.
Why so much anger at Germany and none at the UK? Both prevented freedom of trade/seas.