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Originally Posted by Oberon

That's always assuming that the US will want to work with the RN and other NATO navies....meets US RULE 1:

The choke points for the bad guys R: Skagerrak(Norway Denmark, Sweden);; Bosphorus (Turkey-prohibits A full carrier thru Straight hence Aircraft cruiser designation); Hormuz (Saudi's & UAE); Gibraltar (Great Britain); South China Sea( India, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, rabidly anti-Sino VietNam http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/vietnams-russian-restocking-subs-ships-sukhois-and-more-05396/ with Pakistan, Brunai and Philippines on a good day. Detection and containment R always best left to the competent 'locals'. As at Jutland: "the jailer may B attacked but the attacker will still B in jail"

Originally Posted by STEED

You could lend them some of your model air-planes and with some photo shopping no one will notice.

Nuthin good goes outta style; as the Brits removed Bismark's 'element of surprise' 5/21/1941 from the air off Denmark & Norway...game up six days later. Bismark 'breaking out of Baltic' on it's failed mission and doom... Photo shopping B 4 there was photo shopping

21 May 1941 / 1315
A Spitfire flown by Flying Officer Michael F. Suckling sighted and photographed the German ships from an altitude of 26,200’ (8,000 m). He immediately returned to Scotland and landed at Wick airfield at 1415. Couriers rushed his film to London for development. All Royal Navy commands received the message that one Bismarck class ship and one Hipper class ship were sighted by reconnaissance at Bergen on 21 May.

U cannot have a decent commerce raid if the enemy knows you're on your way! Sistership Tirpitz would spend the war in a fjord hiding under a smokescreen??! rather than face loss....