The historical aside rejects the claim that British carrier practice can be dismissed as ignorance. Doing so distorts the record and hides the interaction behind later American carrier developments. Those changes can then look like isolated national inventions, producing false lessons about how naval aviation evolved. The discussion also places naval history inside economic, social, and political history. Studying the institutions in isolation leaves out the conditions that shaped their choices.
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Carrier history and false lessons
Caricaturing British carrier development hides how British and American practice interacted and produces false lessons about naval aviation.