Aircraft reconnaissance already mattered to navies operating across the world's oceans. The argument for more carriers rests on the distances that Britain and the United States needed to patrol. Those geographic responsibilities continued regardless of reductions in other ship categories. Carrier restrictions are therefore questioned separately from the decision to retire battleships.
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Carrier limits and reconnaissance across the oceans
An argument for expanding carrier allowances focuses on reconnaissance and the distances that British and American fleets had to patrol.