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The British public and political opposition demanded that the Liberal government meet the German challenge, resulting in the funding of additional dreadnoughts in 1910 and escalating the arms race. Maintaining Europe's largest army and second-largest navy took an enormous toll on Germany's finances.
A military artificial intelligence arms race is an arms race between two or more states to develop and deploy lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS). Since the mid-2010s, many analysts have noted the emergence of such an arms race between global superpowers for better military AI, [ 8 ] [ 9 ] driven by increasing geopolitical and military ...
The phrase World War I naval arms race most often refers to the Anglo-German dreadnought race that is often cited as a factor in kindling the war. It can also refer to at least three other naval arms races that occurred around the same period: Anglo–German naval arms race; South American dreadnought race, pre-war
North and South (TV miniseries, 1985–1986), depiction of the Battle of Churubusco; One Man's Hero (1999), starring Tom Berenger and focusing on the Batallón de San Patricio (Saint Patrick's Battalion) during the American invasion of Mexico; Ravenous (1999), fictional horror film set against the backdrop of the Mexican–American War.
The new arms race was unwelcome to the American public. The US Congress disapproved of Wilson's 1919 naval expansion plan, and the 1920 presidential election campaign resulted in politicians in Washington resuming the non-interventionalism of the prewar era, with little enthusiasm for continued naval expansion. [6]
Naval warfare in World War I was mainly characterised by blockade. The Allied powers, with their larger fleets and surrounding position, largely succeeded in their blockade of Germany and the other Central Powers, whilst the efforts of the Central Powers to break that blockade, or to establish an effective counter blockade with submarines and commerce raiders, were eventually unsuccessful.
Gerasimov said that the deployment of U.S. missiles in Europe and Asia was stoking "a strategic offensive arms race", with a build-up of U.S. forces in the Philippines of particular concern to Russia.
The end of the naval arms race, the relaxation of colonial rivalries, and the increased diplomatic co-operation in the Balkans all resulted in an improvement in Germany's image in Britain by the eve of the war. [54] The British diplomat Arthur Nicolson wrote in May 1914, "Since I have been at the Foreign Office I have not seen such calm waters."