RE: History and were doomed to repeat it
April 8, 2017 at 9:15 am
(This post was last modified: April 8, 2017 at 10:29 am by Anomalocaris.)
(April 7, 2017 at 9:28 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(April 7, 2017 at 3:37 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Yes, we supported half a million tons of battleships and the world's second largest fleet on less than Bulgaria's budget. I had no idea we were so, uh, efficient.
And those battleships were WWI vintage, with one exception. And most of the fleet was in mothballs.
BTW, I was talking about the size of our army compared to Bulgaria's. Nothing was said about a budget.
Yes, and the threat we face from Canada and Mexico was clearly more severe and unpredictable than those faced by a Bulgaria in the Balkanized balkans, requiring a large land army for our survival.
As a matter of fact, the US had more post WWI vintage battleships in its fleet between the wars than anyone else-3-to Britain and Japan's 2 each, and effectively 0 for everyone else until around 1938.
As to the rest of our poor world I vintages battle fleet, what will it ever do against everyone else's world war I vintage battle fleets?
