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I will note the main reason why the AEF used French artillery and machine guns in otl was mainly logistics since using American guns would have required every round and spare part to be shipped across the Atlantic. Even then there were plans to switch over to American made equipment for the 1919...

Oh the army had some interesting artillery designs in development it could build and moreover as far as machine guns go ever heard of the lewis and maxim guns? Plus good ole John Browning has some interesting stuff in the works

And Bermuda can't be held for more than a few months if the HSF keeps the bulk of the Grand Fleet stuck in the UK

It didn't help that the UK cut all Germany's underwater transatlantic telegraph cables in violation of several treaties they sponsored which meant that the Germans couldn't spread their version of events nearly as easily and had to run encoded messages from EP lines for any message traffic they...

This is what happens when you let Woodrow Wilson of all people become president and pick cabinet secretaries. Mind you an alternative timeline where the USN gets 5 more 16" armed capital ships(all of which would have had better deck and belt armor than they actually got by around a half an inch...

Josephus Danieles was the Secretary of the Navy at the time and the damm idiot refused to let the USN use the 16" mk1 gun on the designs it submitted to Congress for approval to build for way too long because of his belief that it would cost more(which if they had been built like how the...

In other words @Aaron Fox Josephus Daniels gets told to take a hike and the New Mexicos get built with their orginally intended design which improved the armor over the previous classes and was armed with 10 16" guns.(well that or basically an early Colorado class gets built) and Congress will...

Ah in that case the US can't give the New Mexicos 16" guns(dammm you Secretary of the Navy Daniels for being an idiot)and the Argentines get their Dreadnoughts. On the positive side of things the Army is a bit larger and the coastal defenses of Panama and Manilla Bay in particular and the US in...

And the national guard was sizable as well albeit not of very high quality. Mind you as garrison troops occupying Canada and in the Carribean/Bermuda they'll do

I will note that with two exceptions(1912 and 1913 which produced the Pennsylvania class with the order being split across the two years) the USN was building two capital ships per year and was also the 3rd Largest navy in terms of tonnage on the planet and some rather favorable geography. Mind...

Also it occurs to me in this scenario Argentina isn't getting it's two Rivadiva class Dreadnoughts which are both fairly powerful units to add to the USN's battleline

Which is why the US built fortifications like Crazy to cover the Canal albeit they were still in large part being built in 1914. Mind you the RN and MN don't really have enough capital ships to meet their commitments in Europe and fight the US Battlefleet at the same time(and attacking the...

In this proposed scenario the thing that would keep the the RN's Admirals awake at night would be the threat of the German Battlecruisers breaking out and sailing off to the US to be based there and then raiding shipping in the Atlantic

And then we have to account for the fact that a US at war in 1914 will pass something decently larger than the 1916 naval program two years earlier and unlike otl the capital ship and cruiser production won't be delayed