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Battleships would be more than useless by 1930.

By 1914, Roosevelt tried to diffuse the crises that began as the Japanese formed hostile alliance with Mexico -he knew the Japanese posed a threat... He devised a plan to send the main US battle fleet on a goodwill tour around the world A practice run will be good as the navy will discover failures, blunders, shortcomings in time of peace and not on time of war. They departed December 16 1907. By 1930, battleships

They came from every region of the country but within a year or two their accents and dialects were wrung out of them. --US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Teenagers goal to be turned into fighting men.
1903-Kitty Hawk-Wright Brothers
1906-Great Britain launched HMS Dreadnought.
**President Theodore Roosevelt was fascinated with the Japanese.