"No matter how difficult it is, you have to talk about it, this time, you have to do whatever it takes" President Meng is very helpless, this is a man-made knife and I am a fish and meat, I sent it to the door by myself, he has money, he must spend money, and he can't hold it in his hands, this is not President Meng's economic concept, "Yes" is responsible for the negotiation is the stationmaster of the French station, he has been living here for half a year, and there are several assistants from France, these people are very familiar with the French government.The big idea is still to be taken by President Meng himself.President Meng knew that his policy did not have confidentiality, and he had forgotten the pain, and this knife would almost consume the profits he had made in Europe during this time.Chief of General Staff Rob Criss agrees with President Moe's analysis, "Not only the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Russia in Europe, but I don't think the United States can ignore it. ”President Meng glanced at Chief of Staff Rob Cles curiously, "Are you an American, do you regard the United States as an imaginary enemy" President Meng is still guarding against this Navy lieutenant colonel from the United States at this time, or rather, President Meng will not trust anyone at all, he is such a suspicious person.Robicles Chief of Staff said with a smile: "Since I have taken the president's salary, I have to think about the president, I can see that the president is an ambitious person, as a military opponent, you must take the United States into account, once the United States wants to expand to the world, Asia, will be their main direction, and the Americans do not have the strength to compete with European powers for Africa and India for the time being." ”President Moe nodded, agreeing with Rob Cles' opinion as Chief of General Staff.The United States: It has always been on the road to becoming a military power.After the Civil War, the United States began a policy of arms reduction.Because of the Monroe Doctrine, many in the U.S. government believe that the United States does not need a strong army and navy.Because, since the United States has no intention of competing with the European powers, the country does not have to have a strong army and navy to challenge them.Under these circumstances, the US Government has carried out large-scale reductions in both the army and navy.Of the 10.34 million Army volunteers recruited during the Civil War, 20,000 remained.In 1866, Congress approved a peacetime regular army of 54,302 men, but it was soon significantly reduced to a maximum strength of 27,442 men.This scale was maintained until the eve of the outbreak of the Spanish-American War.During this period, the main task given to the army by the government was to help the country develop the western part of the country and fight against the Indians.In addition, the army is also stationed in Haiphong.During the Spanish-American War, the U.S.
Army took this opportunity to rapidly expand its scale and significantly improve its level of modernization.By the end of the Spanish-American War, the Army had a total of 274717 officers and soldiers in the regular army and volunteers.In 1899, Congress passed a bill establishing 650,000 regular soldiers and 350,000 volunteers.In February 1901, Congress approved an increase in the total strength of the regular army to 88,619 troops, in addition to one Philippine reconnaissance regiment and one Puerto Rican regiment.By 1917, when the United States entered World War I, its army strength had rapidly swelled to more than 1 million.The U.S.
Navy was also drastically reduced after the Civil War.In five years, the number of warships was reduced from 700 to only 52.Moreover, according to the standards of European Britain and other countries during this period, the 52 ships retained were also outdated, because they were all wooden sailing ships with breech-loading guns in the bow.However, since the Americans' overseas trade interests during this period were already considerable and objectively needed the protection of the U.S.
Navy, the Admiralty reverted to the pre-war ocean-going patrol system and shifted the focus of its activities to Latin America and Asia, where gunboat diplomacy began extensively.After the 80s of the 19th century, the United States began to move from isolationism to imperialism, the United States would buy Alaska from the Russians, and it would gain the right to establish naval bases at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and Pago Pago in Samoa.Americans, eager to become a world power, are naturally concerned about modernizing their navy.Alaska and the Russian Far East, the entire Canadian region, the Hawaiian Islands, once President Moe's land expansion beyond the scope of Asia, his biggest opponent will be the Americans and, this is all within ten years, time, for President Moe, is more precious than gold.In the original history.In 1883, the U.S.
Congress voted to approve the construction of three light cruisers "Atlanta", "Boston" and "Chicago" and one communications speedboat "Dorfin", which formed the "White Fleet" and became the beginning of the modern new Navy of the United States.During 18841889, Congress approved the rebuilding of eight more armored cruisers, three unarmored cruisers, six steel gunboats, three heavily armored cruisers, and several low-board ironclads.In this way, by 1890, the total displacement of the new US Navy had reached 1.22 million tons.After entering the 90s, the US Navy launched another 10 battleships, 15 cruisers, 13 gunboats, 12 destroyers, 15 torpedo boats and 2 submersible torpedo boats.By 1899, the new U.S.
Navy had 98 ships of 3.24 million tons.In this way, the United States, by virtue of its powerful economic strength, has made its modern navy quite large in a short period of time, and has achieved its goal of catching up with and surpassing Germany at the end of the 19th century, only lagging behind the navies of Britain, France, and Russia.By the time World War I broke out, the U.S.
Navy was second only to Britain and Germany.The strength of its combat fleet increased from 11 battleships in 1898 to 36 in 1913.In terms of tonnage, American battleships were generally 10,150,000 tons at the beginning of the 20th century, and by 1914 they had reached 310,000 tons.The U.S.
Navy is not only developing rapidly in terms of quantity, but also in terms of quality.After Britain's first "dreadnought" was launched, the United States shifted its naval construction to all giant gun-type ships that year.In 1914, the US Navy would have at least 14 battleships of the post-Dreadnought class.On the eve of World War I, the United States would become the standard power, the first order power, even to compete with Britain.Although it is said that people are the decisive factor affecting the outcome of a war, weapons and equipment should not be ignored either, because they are an important factor affecting the outcome of a war, and with the development of military science and technology, their importance is also increasing.President Meng clearly knew that these main competitors, by 1890, could send more than 200,000 naval troops t1706231537 in minutes: