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Until the U. S. has a numerically superior fleet of capital ships, such as the new Iowa class under construction, a naval war with Japan is out of the question because of the distance consideration. Which brings me to your first error, your horrible selection of John Paul Jones and the Bonhomme Richard as an example. Your position is that Jones, without a naval base, brought the war to the British Coast and that therefore the distance viewpoint is not 100% accurate. The plain fact is that John Paul Jones operated out of a French base, Brest. France was then...
...same situation is true in Germany, for there work stopped on all prewar naval construction save submarines and perhaps some destroyers. So the U. S. steadily enlarges upon the 5:3 ratio with Japan; but it is not yet able to defend Asia, needs only one half its present fleet in the Pacific to prevent a western descent on the U. S. . . . WM. H. DAVIS...
...TIME'S tables of Japanese and U. S. tonnage, account was taken only of ships of each nation actually in the Pacific. Reader Davis adds to TIME'S list four U. S. battleships of the Atlantic fleet, subtracts four Japanese ships which have maneuvered and are ready to fight in the Pacific...
...Germans might make simultaneous descents on various parts of the British Isles, including Eire. Initial landings of small units of 1,000 men or so the British did not hope to prevent entirely. But their vigilance was aimed at confining such landings to the beachheads until the British Fleet could come up to cut off the landing parties from all reinforcements except...
...Germans could command it they could lend their landing parties the equivalent of artillery support before artillery was actually landed. They could also land parachute troops and others to assist in the penetrations necessary to protect beachheads. Even if the original landing operations were not themselves successful, the British Fleet might so expose itself that it would lose too many vessels to be able to continue the defense of Britain. These were the grim possibilities which the British had to face when they again studied the strategic problem of defending their southeastern coast...