By the 1920s, the Royal Navy and Chilean Navy had developed a close relationship. Chile was considered one of the more pro-British states in South America during that period. American contingency planning therefore treated Chilean naval and national support for Britain as a plausible feature of a hypothetical war. Professional ties between navies could harden into geopolitical assumptions far beyond the nineteenth-century conflicts that first strengthened Chile's fleet.
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Anglo-Chilean naval ties shaped American war planning
Close Royal Navy-Chilean Navy relations made American planners consider Chile a likely British supporter in a hypothetical interwar conflict.