A larger carrier fleet creates more opportunities to exercise aircraft, ships, and commanders together. Repeated operations produce practical experience and more evidence for later design and doctrine choices. That information can improve decision-making before the Second World War. The benefit remains probabilistic, since more experience does not guarantee that institutions will draw the right conclusions.
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More carrier exercises could improve later decisions
Additional carriers create more exercises and operational evidence, which could improve later doctrine and procurement decisions without guaranteeing better judgment.