What changes if the United States loans USS New Jersey to the Royal Navy for the Falklands War?
Short answerIt gives Britain exceptional command and shore-bombardment capability, but publicly commits the United States to the British side of the war.
NotesNew Jersey would be an effective flagship and amphibious-fire-support asset. Its political meaning would matter as much as its guns: lending one of America's few reactivatable battleships signals direct support for Britain. That could deter Argentina or trigger an even larger American contribution if the conflict continued.