Alternate History US Naval History goes different after the Cold War

[Sailor.X]

In this scenario as the Cold War finally ends. Instead of canceling many of the Cold War Era projects and decommissioning some of the ships. The Navy goes forward with a bold upkeep modernization plan. They do these things.

They keep all 4 Iowa Class Battleships in service and go heavy into Engineering plant Modernization (Replacing the Oil Fired Boilers with Diesel Electric Power Plants) and adding Ram launchers.

They go full bore into the Super Tomcat program as the Current F-14 replacement

They keep the Seawolf program going and purchase 25 boats for the Sub Fleet

They order 5 new build Ohio Class Subs made as SSGNs only.

And Spruance Class modernization is expanded to more of the hulls.

Funding for all of this is codified by Congress for the next decade do all of the programs will be fully funded. How does this change affect everything in the early 21st Century?

 

[ATP]

In this scenario as the Cold War finally ends. Instead of canceling many of the Cold War Era projects and decommissioning some of the ships. The Navy goes forward with a bold upkeep modernization plan. They do these things.

They keep all 4 Iowa Class Battleships in service and go heavy into Engineering plant Modernization (Replacing the Oil Fired Boilers with Diesel Electric Power Plants) and adding Ram launchers.

They go full bore into the Super Tomcat program as the Current F-14 replacement

They keep the Seawolf program going and purchase 25 boats for the Sub Fleet

They order 5 new build Ohio Class Subs made as SSGNs only.

And Spruance Class modernization is expanded to more of the hulls.

Funding for all of this is codified by Congress for the next decade do all of the programs will be fully funded. How does this change affect everything in the early 21st Century?

We must wait for war with China before answering that question.Becouse we do not knew,how good chineese fleet is,and if they could beat current american fleet,or not.
If China could not beat current USA Navy,making it stronger change nothing.

 

[Atarlost]

This presupposes a much more imperially minded American electorate similar to the early 20th century British electorate. Essentially, the real question is "what if the American electorate was substantially more hawkish on national defense during the 1980s? One of the results is that it's still substantially more hawkish in the 1990s. This means that the USS Cole attack goes over like the USS Maine disaster and renews any flagging militarism. Clinton is forced to take Bin Laden because there are more hawks in his coalition. If he even gets into office. Possibly someone who isn't the first draft dodger to become president wins the 1992 Democratic primary. The GWOT is either averted or accelerated depending on if the Taliban actually can hand OBL over or not.

Independent of that, China either does not build up its conventional forces or plays Germany to our UK in an arms race that bankrupts them because the Deng reforms haven't had time to bear fruit yet. They could only try to match us because of our build down and the bungling of the naval railgun and AGS programs that killed the Zumwalt. Further, if there's a naval arms race technology export restrictions actually have to be applied.

So the saber rattling over Taiwan? That's not happening. Xi is either not chairman or he's continuing Deng's reformist policies or the PRC has collapsed. Biden did not bungle the withdrawal from Afganistan because we either weren't ever in Afganistan or were out a decade before. Putin wouldn't have invaded Ukraine with a more hawkish appearing America and even if the hawkishness had died down to OTL levels he won't have the same reason to believe he can push Biden around. If Biden is president.

Oh, another thing is that the anthropogenic climate change scam wouldn't make it out of the gate with a more hawkish electorate because most of the military runs on petroleum. Kyoto would have been seen as a scheme to bring the US down and Clinton, being a politician not a crazy person, wouldn't endorse it in that environment. If the Democrat establishment wanted it torpedoed to avoid losing all of the more numerous hawks to the Republicans the original hockey stick graph study's fraudulent methodology would have completely sunk the whole thing if the media paid attention to it.