How US and Japanese participation at Jutland might reshape night fighting

If American and Japanese squadrons fought with the Grand Fleet at Jutland, would interwar naval relations change?

Relations would remain competitive, but shared experience of the German night escape could produce stronger night-fighting doctrine and better Anglo-American professional ties.

American and Japanese service in the Grand Fleet would not remove their later rivalry. It could give all three navies the same frustration at Germany's escape during the night after Jutland. More emphasis on destroyer attacks and rapid reporting might make the opening Guadalcanal night battles less one-sided. Daylight would still make large coordinated carrier strikes easier because pilots could see one another. Earlier service under Jellicoe could also give American officers a different impression of the Royal Navy from the one associated here with Beatty, with Ernest King used as an example.