Chapter 654 Completion of New Carrier

Norman Brooke also asked about the experience of management in Malaya, and was not asking positively about the Overseas Commissioner’s meeting in Kuala Lumpur. But again, he was concerned with the interests of the British Empire.

The two men also had a discussion about the Korean War, which had not ended, but was clearly no longer very intense.

Since Alan Wilson was himself in Asia, Norman Brooke valued the opinion of this subordinate.

“According to the public news from the US side, the US finances are still in surplus this year.” Allen Wilson spoke his thoughts from the public news, “Although it is not as exaggerated as the first few years after the war, what can be judged is that the war on the peninsula did not have a significant impact on the US national strength. Nor am I saying that the war has not been useful, but it is also true that it has not been a great problem for the United States.”

This was completely honest, after the war the United States had a fiscal surplus until 1957, and burdening a local war was really not that difficult for the current United States.

“In that case, the World War was really a huge accumulation for the United States.” Norman Brooke frowned slightly.

“Honorable Sir, the impact on the United States is not great, but the world is not a static development. The United States faced off against nothing more than the number two power in the Soviet bloc, and the Soviet Union could have been developing while the United States was at war.”

Actually, here’s the problem, while the U.S. was fighting a big war, the Soviet Union could have been holding back its development. While the war didn’t affect the power of the US itself, the USSR was able to use this time to close the gap.

Now, thankfully, Britain did not get involved in this war, compared to the same period in history has been considered good luck. In the original history, Britain’s participation in the Korean War made Britain’s just-turned-surplus finances turn into a deficit again.

The U.S. national strength is there, the World War II pill overdose a little blood is fine. The United Kingdom itself in the Second World War hemorrhage, this directly to the Labor Party Cabinet out of power.

Talking to Norman Brooke, the cabinet secretary, about the impact of the Korean War on the United States was actually a very important thing.

Britain was also assessing this war, whether it would have an impact on the national power of the United States, and if it would have a significant impact. Would it affect the strength of the entire free world.

Although there was also some gloating in the words of the two men, but in the perspective of the whole world, once the United States was hit hard, who could stop the Soviet Union from liberating the whole world?

The judgment given by Alan Wilson was that after this war there would be no depletion of the US national strength, and what was lost was not the national strength but the time for other countries to recover from the war. In other words the US is still as strong as ever, but other countries can take a breather from the heavy damage of the World War.

Norman Brooke nodded his head in acknowledgement of this judgment, once again stating that the Olympics would be on his radar, and finally the two ended the conversation.

When they got home, being an honest husband, Allen Wilson naturally confided the whole matter with Pamela Mountbatten.

“America’s national strength has not been depleted in a war, no wonder you have been so wary of this country.” Pamela Mountbatten sighed softly after hearing this, and there was some envy in her words.

There was a time when this role of taking on any challenger head on belonged to Britain. But it seemed to be gone now.

“If the United States suffers a big loss once, maybe it will tighten up a bit in the future. That’s not necessarily a good thing!” Alan Wilson opened his mouth and said so to his wife with a blessed thought.

The war that dealt a heavy blow to the United States and channeled the force of the war completely into the homeland was, of course, the Vietnam War.

America’s power was greatly weakened by the Vietnam War, and it was plunged into an unprecedented economic, financial and political crisis at home. After Nixon assumed the presidency, adjustments were made in foreign policy. In 1969, Nixon proposed the “New Asian Policy” in Guam, in which the United States contracted its front, Vietnamized the Vietnam War, and used Asians to fight Asians.

Public opinion called it the “Nixon Doctrine”. It was the general policy of the United States to adjust its overseas obligations and relations with its allies, including its policy towards China and the Soviet Union. Strength plus negotiation. This is the decline of American hegemony and the short-term end of the strategy of containment, but also an important adjustment of the United States strategy.

This time the Korean War, the United States just let out a part of the dividends of World War II, the strength has not been lost. Naturally, it has no memory of intervening again in the war in Vietnam. This time if the United States really hit the United States pain, maybe the United States will be more cautious about intervening in the Vietnam War.

Overall there is good and bad, and things play out mostly in a double-edged sword pattern. If Britain had known that the original thirteen independent North American states were treating them so badly, there’s no way they would have let it become independent even if they had killed all the Americans.

Even being in the time period, national leaders don’t always see the future trends. Take the matter of German unification, not only Europe, Britain, France and Italy that the Soviet Union is only a minor problem, as long as the adjustment to curb Germany’s unification ambitions is not easy.

Even the same period of the United States, do not think that the Soviet Union will fall with a bang, the United States just think that the Soviet Union to concede as a second can be, which has been the United States at the time of the biggest wish.

In the last year of the 1980s, President George W. Bush gave a commencement address at Texas A&M University, in which he proposed a new policy toward the Soviet Union that his administration had formulated after more than three months of review and deliberation. Called the “Beyond Containment” strategy, it was declared to be a radical change in the United States’ post-war policy towards the Soviet Union.

Its main thrust is to actively develop relations with the Soviet Union, to strengthen U.S.-Soviet cooperation, and to draw the Soviet Union into the family of nations and integrate it into the international community.

“As for our British policy, it is one of defense, delaying the colonies as long as we can. If we can’t drag it out, we have to withdraw, but we must maintain our influence in the Persian Gulf and Malaya, and we would rather lose our colonies in Africa.” Alan Wilson said to his wife, “The precaution against the Soviet Union lies in not letting the Soviet Union cut off Eurasia on land. Otherwise it would be like the consequences of the Ottoman entry into World War I, turning an encirclement posture into a Soviet counter-encirclement posture. This is consistent with the strategy of maintaining a presence in the Persian Gulf.”

The strengths of the Allies and the Allies in WWI were actually significantly stronger and weaker, Imperial Russia would not have been the first to be defeated at all if the Ottoman Empire had not entered the war, and the Ottoman Empire entering the war would have been the same consequence as the Soviet Union moving south to truncate the Eurasian continent. It directly tore apart the Allies’ encirclement network against the Allies, and instead caused Imperial Russia to be encircled by the Allied bloc.

“If only the United States had fought this war with the effect of the Boer War.” Pamela Mountbatten is still nagging, not so happy with how this Korean War has weakened the United States.

“We need to maintain our current military strength as long as possible and wait for the next opportunity.” Alan Wilson softly consoled his wife, the United States does not have a long memory is also a good thing, not there is still the Vietnam War.

In the matter of maintaining military power, the Secretary of State for Maritime Affairs, Mr. Mountbatten, is absolutely have the right to speak, relatively coincidentally, by chance to escape disarmament of the Malta-class aircraft carriers of the two, after the addition of tilted decks and steam catapults, has been formally completed out of the factory.

This class of carriers, which had been in the works for many years, would have been ready for shipment in mid-1951, but the delay was caused by the pretense of inclined decks and steam catapults.

Now this heavy aircraft carrier of the same class as the Midway class, with a full load displacement of 60,000 tons, has finally arrived and will be officially unveiled at the end of February.

“A twin-island design? Inclined deck, angled deck steam catapults!” Alan Wilson followed General Mountbatten, rushed over to see this in the history of the heavy aircraft carrier did not appear, the heart of the thought, although the fate of the ill-fated, but finally also a thousand times to come out.

Because of the addition of steam catapults, the deck is a little longer than the original, three hundred meters long. But it can be said that what modern aircraft carriers have, this has not yet met with the public of the heavy aircraft carrier have.

The weight of post-World War II carrier aircraft, both newer jets and propellers, has skyrocketed, and the landing speed of jets has increased even more dramatically than propellers, all of which means that the newer carriers have more momentum and are less likely to stop when they land, which is where the angled deck comes in.

Like the benchmark Midway-class carriers, the most conspicuous difference between the Malta-class carriers was the twin-island design that was supposed to be decades in the future, and Alan Wilson surreptitiously asked his father-in-law at this point, “Is there an official designation yet?”

“Was going to go with Malta and a couple of islands in the Mediterranean as naming alternatives. But nothing has been finalized yet.” General Mountbatten, whose eyes did not leave, for a moment, the aircraft carrier that was about to meet the public, replied absentmindedly.

“Since they are two of this batch, how about calling them HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales.” Alan Wilson gave the idea with his hands in his pockets, anyway, as soon as he saw the island of the twin ships he could think of the two British aircraft carriers in the twenty-first century. In fact, aside from the different times, those two carriers, themselves, had the projection factor of the Malta-class carriers.

“Eh?” General Mountbatten pondered for a long time after hearing this, and finally said, “It’s actually not impossible.”

A conventionally-fueled carrier with a dual-island structure meant that the warship’s multiple power systems would have different exhaust suites, and unnecessarily share the same smokestack. This this means that such a carrier would only be simpler in the design of its exhaust system than a single-island carrier, thus reducing the difficulty of design and construction.

The UK adopted this involvement with man-hours in mind, except that post-war Britain had no money and didn’t allow this advantage to be realized. The United States was much more wealthy and did not dwell on such detailed innovations.

After Mountbatten returned to the Admiralty, there was an immediate discussion on the naming of the new carriers, and the name Queen Elizabeth was very favorable. Because it was the beginning of a new era for the Royal Navy, there was also the celebration of the Crown Prince’s coronation.

Admiral Mountbatten had said so, how could the others oppose it, and eventually they all harmonized their views.