"We seem to have lost again. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info" Looking at the telegram forwarded from Pearl Harbor in front of him, Vice Admiral Benson, Secretary of the Admiralty, said with a gloomy face.

"Well, Your Excellency, I am here on behalf of Mr. President, and there is only one question, if we choose to clash with Japan at this time, what are our chances of winning? Please analyze it from a purely military point of view, and do not think about politics. U.S. Secretary of State Robert Murphy. Bacon said.

Americans think similarly to the Japanese. Don't think about finding the truth in this matter, because no one can say anything about this thing, the Americans did lay mines, and American submarines did appear in this sea area. The Japanese ship was blown up like this, and unless the Japanese admit that their ship's ammunition spontaneously combusted, the Americans will definitely not be able to get out of it. Think about the Maine incident more than ten years ago, the Americans are not hypocritical, since something happened, then this matter must be solved first, and how to solve it, it is natural to see if the big stick in the hand is powerful!

"If the Japanese warships are all King Kong, then I definitely advise His Excellency the President to take advantage of this opportunity to knock the Japanese. But alas, there are only 4 of them, while the Japanese have 12 dreadnoughts and super-dreadnoughts combined! 2 of them are dreadnought and 10 are super dreadnought. (It's not that the Americans don't have enough money, but because they turned dreadnought a little late.) When it comes to the total tonnage of the fleet, the US Navy has a great advantage. ）

"And we only have 12 at the moment, of which 8 are dreadnoughts and 4 are super dreadnoughts. And the performance of the Nevada, you should have seen it, it can't beat the latest Japanese Fuso-class battleships, and the U.S. Navy has only 2 Nevadas. The Japanese now have three Fuso, and a fourth will be launched in the next year. Benson paused and continued, "So, I don't think we can beat our opponents. ”

"Well, so what if it takes a while? The White House and Capitol Hill bigwigs were outraged by the brutality of the Japanese. Our Pennsylvania-class and New Mexico-class battleships are under construction, and if nothing else, congressional appropriations will speed up construction. "Robert. Bacon said.

"Although the two Pennsylvania-class battleships have been put off the slipway, if they want to complete the outfitting, it will take at least a year to the world, and it will take about nine months to get it sooner. Of the three New Mexico-class battleships, only one was on the slipway, and the other two were preparing to start construction. We can't count on any of these warships. Lieutenant General Benson smiled wryly. The scene in front of him gave him a sense of déjà vu.

It seems that this was the case before the Spanish-American War, the US Navy had more than 5 battleships under construction or outfitting on the slipway, and if the war broke out two years later, not to mention crushing the Japanese Navy, at least it would not have lost so badly! And now? The same is true of the US Navy, where the capital ships of both sides are 12 vs. 12. But the quality is obviously not a grade. After the Japanese Navy completes the last Fuso-class battleship, there will be no new warships in a short time, and the Americans now have 5 capital ships on the slipway, 5 30,000-ton battleships! Add up to 60 14-inch guns! But unfortunately, it can't be used when you see it!

Benson may not be a formidable soldier on the battlefield. But he still knows a lot about naval construction, at least he has a very accurate grasp of the outfitting time of the Pennsylvania-class battleships. Historically, the time from launch to service of the American iron turtles was about 16 months, and the fastest was 11 months. So, 9 months to complete the service is already very fast. But I still can't catch up.

What's more, in Benson's view, even with 2 Pennsylvania-class battleships, the two sides are evenly matched, and the Japanese Navy has 2 Dreadnoughts and 10 Super Dreadnoughts to fight the US Navy's 8 Dreadnoughts and 6 Super Dreadnoughts....... It is true that the Japanese King Kong is crispy, but the 10-inch and 11-inch main armor of the American dreadnought cannot be said to be much stronger....... And the Fuso-class battleships of the Japanese fleet were too fierce. In consideration of the other party's speed advantage and personnel quality advantage. Benson thinks and feels that the fight is not very reliable. As for waiting for the later New Mexico-class battleships to enter service, it will be too late. It's been at least 2 years!

"With all due respect, I don't think the bigwigs in the government have the determination to fight at all, maybe they are afraid of defeat, or they may be unwilling to face the entire Entente bloc, otherwise, the government would not have kept the news so tightly sealed." Lieutenant General Benson said, pointing to another document on the table. This is a telegram that the White House has just sent to him, asking the Navy Department to cooperate with the blockade of the news, and judging by the wording and requirements in it, there is a feeling that the big thing is small.

"This time it's Sims' level that isn't enough, if, I mean, if we had another person, for example, Rear Admiral Magiffin commanding the fleet, wouldn't it be better?" Robert. Bacon looked at the document with some embarrassment, because it was he who asked the president to "handle it carefully". So the secretary of state changed the subject and said.

"Our base, logistics. The auxiliary fleet and the endurance of the fleet are both problems, and this cannot be solved by another person, unless it is God who leads the American fleet! Otherwise, we won't be able to win. We may be able to win some battles in a certain battle, but it is impossible to fight for the islands with the Japanese Navy and Army across thousands of kilometers, and I think that the problem of the army is a little bigger than that of the navy, and our army does not seem to be larger in size than the regiment in Bavaria! "Lieutenant General Benson also hacked the army by the way.

The environment of the United States is too good, in addition to the weak chickens around is the weak chickens, if the navy can also expand the sphere of influence of the empire, then the role of the army is actually the police, history Pershing in May 1917 was appointed commander-in-chief of the United States, once did a survey of the American arsenal, found a total of only 285,000 rifles and 400 field guns and 150 mountain artillery .......

The United States is strong in industry, and once activated, it can indeed burst out with a strong production capacity, taking rifles as an example, during the United States entered the war, the Americans produced 2.5 million rifles. That's more than 8 times the number of rifles in stock before the start of the war. If we take April 1917 to November 1918 as a standard, the British and Americans produced about the same number of machine guns, while the number of rifles produced was 100 to 127. In terms of bullets, the Americans are slightly less, but they also reach more than 8 percent. Of course, the number of artillery produced was relatively small, and in the same period of time, the artillery of the Americans was only a quarter of that of the British, not to mention compared with the French.

Therefore, an objective evaluation of the current level of the military industry of the United States is that it is very weak in peacetime, and once the war starts, it will be more violent, but generally speaking, it will not be said to have reached the level of overwhelming the others in wartime, and it is worse than the military production of Britain, France and Germany in the same period. Of course, this may be due to the factor that the mobilization time is too short.

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