"The USS Maine exploded and sank during a visit to Cuba?" , Li Hui couldn't help but laugh dumbly after learning the news, the reason for the sinking of the Maine has always been controversial in history, but this time and space will actually happen in advance, so it is very likely that the Americans planted the blame. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info And the U.S. Navy has been upgraded in advance this time and space, and the loss of the old battleship Maine is even less worth mentioning.

Due to changes in the world pattern, the purpose of the United States in launching this war is no longer just to seize colonies, as in history, but also to test the combat strength of the US Army and Navy, which has been greatly expanded in recent years, and to provide a reference for how to deal with China, the real enemy, in the future. Theodore Roosevelt, who became deputy secretary of the Navy after William McKinley was elected president of the United States, left his clerical job to form a volunteer regiment to participate in the war in Cuba, no longer just to add a halo to his resume.

Any American with a little insight can realize that the United States will take advantage of China by fighting against Spain, and Theodore Roosevelt hoped that China would declare war on Spain in order to obtain the Philippines, so as to use the Spanish army as a reference to estimate the approximate difference in combat effectiveness between the Chinese and American armies.

The performance of the Chinese army in the Yiwei War is really terrifying, and according to that exchange ratio, even if the United States has a home field advantage, it will not have the slightest chance of winning a war with China. Today's new rifles with pointed bullets and new field guns with a faster rate of fire (but still only pseudo-rapid-fire guns before Miss 75, with a maximum rate of fire of only 3 rounds per minute, and still inseparable from the slope position. With the consistent caution of the US government, or the capital alliance behind it, in waging war, it is difficult for them to make that determination if they do not understand the current gap between the Chinese and US militaries, and Spain is not only a soft persimmon, but also has a conflict of interest with China and the United States, and once the United States declares war on Spain, the Chinese government will most likely fall into the ground, so that we can take the opportunity to understand the current strength comparison between the two armies.

Because the United States could not attack the Philippines at this time and space, it could only concentrate its forces on attacking Cuba, and the United States had also seen results in its arms expansion war in the past few years, so the contrast in strength between the two sides was extremely different, just like a strong man and a baby. On the one hand, Spain was hit harder, and on the other hand, although the United States suffered heavy losses in the economic crisis, it was mainly because of the trade protection of European countries and the deterioration of the geopolitical situation......

There are three main reasons for this, one is that the United States is not actually a standard gold standard country, Mexican silver coins are still widely used by the people, and there are even many people who advocate liberalizing the right to mint coins and allowing private individuals to mint silver coins freely, and even the gold standard system has not yet become a formal system, but in fact it is just doing so. As a result, the United States first profited a lot from the soaring price of silver because it had the largest silver reserves in the world, and then because the gold standard system was not officially recognized, it was able to abandon the fixed exchange rate faster than the United Kingdom, so the direct economic losses were much smaller than those of the United Kingdom.

The second reason is that although the United States is dominated by financial capital, as a booming industrial country, industry accounts for a very large proportion of the economy, which is qualitatively different from Britain and France, which are gradually deindustrialized, so the direct impact of the economic crisis is also smaller. In addition, the rapid development of the United States in recent years has been to a large extent the result of frenzied borrowing, and it has already become the world's largest debtor country, and the collapse of the gold standard in Britain and France has objectively greatly reduced the pressure on the United States to repay loans, which is naturally a very good thing.

Therefore, although the United States has greatly increased its resistance to future development, the impact in the short term is not very great, at least the situation is far better than that of Spain, a sick cat, and it is no wonder that as soon as the war broke out, world public opinion generally believed that Spain had no chance of winning......

However, the actual performance of the U.S. Federal Army was not as good as in the historical Spanish-American War, especially in the early days of the war, when only the Roosevelt Volunteer Corps, which was composed of Ivy League alumni and western cowboys, performed well.

Li Hui guessed that this may be due to the recent expansion of the army too fast resulting in too many recruits, although a large area of new equipment has been replaced, but has not yet explored the new tactics to match, this also made Li Hui once again realize the benefits of his own system, after the study of a weapon technology, not only the production technology, but also the basic tactical use, if the military theory system technology is studied, it is even more complete strategy and tactics, and the armies of other countries can only slowly explore in actual combat, This is not only the loss of time, but also the lives of countless officers and soldiers on the front line......

However, although the initial performance was not good, as in previous wars, as the war progressed, the performance of the US military, which was very good at summing up lessons and lessons, became better and better, coupled with the overwhelming advantage of the overall strength, in the end, Spain was defeated without suspense, and had to cede land and sue for peace, and the United States finally boarded the last train of colonial expansion.

Cuba got its wish, but the United States did not achieve another goal, although China took advantage of Spain to rob as they expected, but did not take military means, but forced Spain to cede the Philippines, Guam, and the Mariana Islands through diplomatic pressure......

With the accumulation of experience, Momen, who was more accustomed to solving problems directly by force before and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, has become more and more experienced in strong diplomacy, and has the powerful deterrent power brought about by China's world's largest military strength and huge size. The success of the Spanish-American War was one of the most striking achievements, but Li Hui, as the ruler of Momen and the head of the Republic, attached great importance to the "Alliance of Asian and Pacific Nations" established in Shanghai, China, in September 1897...... (To be continued.) )