America prepared to fight Briton 1921 over power leadership???

Has anyone heard about this story before?
I read the first page of *The feild marshalls revenge-The brakedown of a special relationship*

qoute"In 1921,three years after the end of ww1, the United States prepared to fight Briton,her war time ally.
A US admiral warned: We are near to war today before,-we were Briton's colony once,She will be our colony before she is done!

To me,America seems not to be a great allied to the British after all or just has scary as Hitler was towards the British
I have mention this before about America had an eye on the British world power and it seems i am right.
I just can't believe what the American man said in 1921,it's vertually saying that One day Briton will become USA b/tch! (i am not trying to start a war between Americans and British members)


Every country has the right to conquest the world leadership (even USA) but to you're major ally,why would America think so badly of the British that way?

Can you imagine a war in between ww1 and ww2 and America and Briton were foes,how would this turn out for ww2?
America might side with the Germans! This war that nearly had happend,may lead to Germany's win!

 

I'm guessing this is about the Treaty of Versailles, the formation of the League of Nations and the withdrawl of the USA from any further European interests under W.Wilson's leadership due to these policies.
Wilson was so upset by the proceedings he returned to America claiming illness during the proceedings, having earlier declared his extreme disappointment in them and failing to bring much accordance from the council. The "war to end all wars" had just been fought, finally been stopped and it seemed people brought to their senses, when Britain, Italy and France decided to go straight back to mediaeval European politics all over again.
It was as if the war had never happened, all those deaths were completely pointless and what's worse, it was plain to see there was more to come. Europe didn't want democracy, it wanted to kill each other, tell each other what to do and how to think and what you're allowed to say and call that democracy.

Anyways the big thing in European politics which happened in 1921 was the formation of the League of Nations and the United States' determined abscondment from it, most pointedely I might add (Wilson all but left, mid proceedings in terms of European etiquette with the declaration, "you people make me sick").

 

It was somethign about the Washington Naval treaty, before the treaty Britain and US planned to expand their navys so much that tensions might lead to a Anglo-American war. Some people believe that Washington treaty stopped exactly that.

 

Slipitgit- Members have mention in the past,that i should read more and so i have,now the book is wrong?

The book said could be a war in 1921 between USA and Briton,i was just doing want other members suggested to me!

 

I wonder if the author of the book Heidi is reading might have mis-interpreted, or mis-understood the meaning of America's War Plan Red. Which was a war game situation where the US would end up in conflict with Britain after WW1.

In PLAN RED, the Atlantic Strategic War Plan, the strategists theorized that there would be a war with Great Britain. They did this because England was locked in a strategic alliance with Japan, the Anglo-Japanese Alliance of 1902, which was renewed and lasted until the Washington Conference of 1921-22. American planners thought that England’s imperial reach would bring it into conflict with the US.

Another contingency war plan they developed was the RED-ORANGE PLAN, which hypothesized a two-theater war, seeking to win first in the Atlantic, against England, while fighting a holding battle in the Pacific, and then defeating Japan. When World War Two broke out, military and naval planners simply dusted off the old RED-ORANGE PLAN and substituted Germany for England in the Atlantic Theater.

From:

War Plan Red

Of course there were also war plans for fighting Mexico, or other Latin American nations, and just about every combination of nations all over the globe.

 

Heidi,

I think the obvious question to ask when confronted with an absurd assertion such as this is, if the US was preparing to fight a war against the strongest naval power in the world at this time, why would the US Government simultaneously call a conference of the world's great naval powers and offer to scrap nearly it's entire fleet of capital ships?

Doesn't make any sense to me.

 

I did not make this Absured thing up, the book did! and history books are written by historians,so i don't know.
I did not mean to up set Americans (i am sorry if i have),it did not make any sense to me either,i never understand anything.

 

I Thought this book was about the relationships of Monty with commanders such as Bradley, Patton, and Eisenhower, not Anglo-American relations pre-war?

I thought about picking it up until I had read some bad reviews. Particularly about bad research, in that the Author supported his evidence at times with his own previous works.

I will admit, reviews from the other side of the pond were considerably better.