Why the early twentieth-century naval race was global

Can the naval competition from 1900 through the interwar years be understood mainly as an Anglo-American-Japanese race?

Only partly; it was a global race in which American planners also watched major South American naval construction.

A viewer proposes a book centred on an Anglo-American-Japanese naval race from 1900 into the interwar period. The competition was global and cannot be contained within that triangle. American planners also watched the large ships ordered by South American navies and asked how those programmes affected their own position. Naval procurement reacts to regional fleets as well as the most obvious peer competitors.