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>>>>>>What would we be fighting over? >>>>>>It wouldn't have happened. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>>Let us just say the WW2 never happenned. And the >>>>>>>battle was instead war between UK and US in 1945 >>>who >>>>>>>wins. Remember the US is now a superpower that >>>>>>>time.The war of independence style war was held >in >>>>>the >>>>>>>20th century. Please don't use this question to >>>spit >>>>>>>anti-American venom, for once! >>>>> >>>>>A better way of putting the question would be, at >>>what >>>>>point did the US become a more powerful nation than >>>>>the UK? >>>>> >>>>>I would say sometime between the wars. >>>> >>>>I would agree but would be more specific and would >>>>date it to the Washington Naval Conferences. This >>>>categorically equalised the American and British >>>>fleets in the famous 5:5:3 ratios. This meant that >>the >>>>Royal Navy was no longer unchallenged on the high >>>seas. >>>> >>>>These conferences coincidentally also detached >>Britain >>>>from its alliance from Japan and so helped spin the >>>>Japanese into the Axis orbit for World War Two. >>Making >>>>Pearl Harbour something of an own goal! >>> >>>Those ratios were worked out on tonnage too, and >>>whilst the Royal Navy was mostly WWI ships soldiering >>>(should that be sailoring?) on past their sell-by >date >>>the US Navy was more modern. >> >>And of course the Japanese came out of it best of all. >>Their 3 ratio was concentrated in the Pacific Ocean, >>The Americans 5 ratio was divided between the Atlantic >>and Pacific whilst the aging British 5 ratio was >>scattered over the entire globe. >> >>I really do think that the Washington Conferences were >>a pivotal turning point in Imperial History - and one >>that is frequently overlooked - if someone were >>heading off to do a dissertation or a doctorate on >>Imperial History, this would a highly profitable >>avenue to research and document > >I suppose though that with farnce and the US as pretty >much guaranteed allies the naval situation looked >fairly secure though after the treaty. They couldn't >have predicted that France would capitulate and most >of the US Navy would end up on the bottom of Pearl >Harbour.
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