More peacetime may not fix American torpedoes

Would three more years of peace fix US torpedoes that ran too deep?

Not necessarily, because peacetime may not create the pressure to confront a defect that wartime operations made impossible to ignore.

The outcome remains uncertain. A peacetime navy has less immediate reason to force a difficult institutional correction, and a leader willing to demand it may not be in charge. Extra time might help, but it does not guarantee a fix.