Comments by "Steve Valley" (@stevevalley7835) on "The Drydock - Episode 250" video.

wrt the North Carolina switch from 14" to 16", a nugget I picked up in b-school, more decades ago than I care to contemplate, is "failing to plan, is planning to fail". Given that the US is credited with the inclusion of the gun size escalator clause in Second London, and given that Japan had already given notice it was withdrawing from the treaty, it was almost certain that the clause would be triggered. I expect that the clause being triggered was what the US was planning for, designing the ships for 16", with a set of mods to be implemented if they were surprised by Japan rejoining the treaty system.
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