Some idiotic things came out in the Post World War One days. One of those was the The Washington Naval Treaty. The US and Britten stopped construction of major ships. Gemany was unaffected. The military back in Japan was certainly insulted by their deminished status. After a few years they decideed to build a bigger navy, anyway. The U.S. Navy spent years bickering Battleship vs. Aircraft Carrier and building none but a couple of smaller carriers.
Our destroyer fleet was largely supported by the antiquated four stackers built during WWI.
The Battleship vs. Aircraft Carrier argument ended on December 7, 1941 by the Imperial Empire of Japan. If any thing good come of the Washington Treaty the USN had to develop an Naval Avation program and devote a certain interest to submarine tactics and developnent.
With out Naval Air and submarines the good ol' US of A would have been in for a long haul.
Some idiotic things came out in the Post World War One days. One of those was the The Washington Naval Treaty. The US and Britten stopped construction of major ships. Gemany was unaffected. The military back in Japan was certainly insulted by their deminished status. After a few years they decideed to build a bigger navy, anyway. The U.S. Navy spent years bickering Battleship vs. Aircraft Carrier and building none but a couple of smaller carriers.The Washington Naval Treaty actually was absolutely brilliant.
The post WWI American public had little appetite for expanding the Navy to compete with the Japanese and thanks to espionage we found out just how little of a fleet the Japanese would accept without walking out
The result was fighting the Pacific War in the 40's instead of the 20's with the huge advantage of swamping the Japanese with more capable aircraft.