At what point is an American/American-supported intervention into Europe feasible?

I'm curious about this.

This is a two-way question: I'm curious about not only the diplomatic feasibility, but also the logistical feasibility of (at the least) intervening in a European war pre-WWI.
 
except for a brief time after the civil war I want to say the 1890's. After the civil war the US had the largest fleet of ironclad ships and the largest standing army in the war. By 1870 the US military had only 10000 men in uniform. Down from 1 million. The Ironclads were sold off.
 
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As early as the American Revolutionary War. American naval commander/pirate John Paul Jones operated against the British in the Irish Sea in 1778 and the North Sea in 1779. The latter of which was an American intervention to help the Franco-Spanish Armada of 1779.
 
I'm curious about this.

This is a two-way question: I'm curious about not only the diplomatic feasibility, but also the logistical feasibility of (at the least) intervening in a European war pre-WWI.

If there's a European country willing to provide them with a secure base of operations, the eighteenth century. If not, I've no idea, but probably not before that latter half of the twentieth century.
 
If there's a European country willing to provide them with a secure base of operations, the eighteenth century. If not, I've no idea, but probably not before that latter half of the twentieth century.


It really depends on the lead time allowed and the scale, do recall the Barbary Wars occurred at the very beginning of the 19th Century and the US was active against pirates in what would today be considered Greek waters in the 1820s onwards. Until the Civil War the US enjoys quite a large merchant fleet which if there were time to raise land forces could transport them. After the Civil War the US Merchant Marine declines precipitously and as pointed out above the Navy was essentially allowed to rot until the 1890s, however it still retained a small force of cruisers and consequently some force projection capacity in terms of ships and naval brigades of sailors and marines operating on land throughout the period, just not in large numbers.
 
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