Why similar carrier exercises produced different doctrines

Were British and American carrier ideas converging, or did their strategic thinking differ?

Alex sees similar experiments serving different plans: an American emphasis on decisive battle and a British emphasis on managing a wider global war.

Both navies experimented with distant strikes and multiple carriers. Alex characterizes the American approach as focused on winning the decisive battle associated with War Plan Orange. His British comparison begins with an inferior local force using cruisers and carrier aircraft for economic warfare. Dispersed attacks would draw Japanese ships away from concentration while reinforcements approached. Shared experiments could therefore serve different assumptions about how the wider war would be fought.