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That's presuming some sort of Anglo-American tension. By the beginning of the 20th century, especially after the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt (who used his personal friendship with Cecil Spring-Rice as a launch point to cement ties with Great Britain), war between the US and Great Britain became unthinkable for all practical purposes.

True, a war plan (War Plan White, I believe) for a conflict against the British was laid out and updated regularly, but to the best of my knowledge (it warranted only the briefest of mentions in War Plan Orange, for example) it wasn't taken seriously. If anything, the first years of the 20th century saw the beginning of the spirit of cooperation between the US and the UK for security in the Atlantic.

Even when the USA was an ally of Britian, the battleship building program continued, even though there was no liklihood of them being used in the Great War. So I don't see the program being stopped. Besides, the US needed those ships to counter Japan's building program. And Britian can't just look at who the ships are likely to be aimed at, but that they are there. (And Britian was an ally of Japan at the time.)
 
True, a war plan (War Plan White, I believe) for a conflict against the British was laid out and updated regularly, but to the best of my knowledge (it warranted only the briefest of mentions in War Plan Orange, for example) it wasn't taken seriously. If anything, the first years of the 20th century saw the beginning of the spirit of cooperation between the US and the UK for security in the Atlantic.

War Plan Red is the correct name you are looking for. War Plan Crimson had to do with the Canada front in the eventuality of war with Britain. War Plan White dealt with domestic uprisings.
 

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That's presuming some sort of Anglo-American tension. By the beginning of the 20th century, especially after the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt (who used his personal friendship with Cecil Spring-Rice as a launch point to cement ties with Great Britain), war between the US and Great Britain became unthinkable for all practical purposes.

A U.S. war with Britain wasn’t all that unthinkable at least through the period leading up to our entry into WWI. The U.S. had a sizeable German and a sizeable Irish population on the eve of WWI. Great Britain didn’t engage in un-restricted submarine warfare, but Great Britain did seize cargoes of war material off of U.S. ships that were bound for Germany. The only thing that saved Britain in the eyes of U.S. public opinion is that the British did compensate the American owners for the cargo that was supposed to be sold in Germany. The Germans could really use this tactic since what little surface navy they had was bottled up in port by the British blockade.

And after WWI the U.S. did not ratify the Treaty of Versailles, which would have made the U.S. a member of the League of Nations, and this was due in large part to the fact that Senators from states that had large Irish or German populations couldn’t vote to make the U.S. a member of any organization that could have gone to war on England’s behalf.
 
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