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The size and power of battleships grew rapidly before, during, and after World War I: a result of competitive shipbuilding among a number of naval powers, including Britain and Germany, brought to an end by the Washington Naval Treaty and Treaty of Versailles. In 1912, German Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg ended the naval arms race ...
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
The South American dreadnought race between Argentina, Brazil and Chile from 1907 to 1914. The Anglo-German naval arms race , between Imperial Germany and the United Kingdom from 1898 to 1912. The Cold War nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union, which involved both land and naval nuclear expansion.
This is a list of military conflicts, that United States has been involved in. There are currently 123 military conflicts on this list, 5 of which are ongoing. These include major conflicts like the American Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican–American War, the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II and the Gulf War.
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 ...
Ferguson argues: "So decisive was the British victory in the naval arms race that it is hard to regard it as in any meaningful sense a cause of the First World War." [ 102 ] However, the Kaiserliche Marine had narrowed the gap by nearly half and that the Royal Navy had had a long-standing policy of surpassing any two potential opponents combined .
A naval arms race among Argentina, Brazil, and Chile—the wealthiest and most powerful countries in South America—began in the early twentieth century when the Brazilian government ordered three dreadnoughts, formidable battleships whose capabilities far outstripped older vessels in the world's navies.
THE RACE FOR THE BATTLE TANK - 1916 WWI trenches & Brit. Mark 1 to U.S. M1A2 Abrams THE RACE FOR RADAR AND STEALTH - WWII Brit. break, to Powers' U-2, to U.S. stealth F-117 Nighthawk THE RACE FOR THE NUCLEAR BOMB - 1945 U.S. 'Little Boy' on Hiroshima to modern U.S. W-80 Tomahawk cruise