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Experts believed that the naval arms races pretty much decided in the 1920s that the US and UK were going to be the next logical enemies over trade and economic reasons. Save that these experts never did find any reason to spark hostility between the two powers in the wake of the Great War outside of building large battleships (which the US could do and the UK could no longer afford, but would attempt to maintian status as the largest naval power in the world. As it had been for the last several hundred years).
Instead the Americans decided to end the arms race and called in the naval powers to Washington and they hammered out a treaty that ended battleship construction for the UK, US, and Japan for over a decade. (Italy and France stopped for about a decade, but rearming of Germany's navy changed that even before the rise of the Nazi Government).
And the US had plans to invade or counter everybody and anybody. It was just what military planners did.
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