A larger carrier force would bring more naval aircraft into 1930s exercises. Repeated trials could provide more evidence about air attacks on capital ships, cruisers, carriers, and destroyers. The discussion suggests that this could expose misleading conclusions about anti-aircraft defence earlier. The benefit is conditional: more exercises create opportunities to test assumptions and develop tactics, without specifying which lesson every navy would accept or when.
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More carrier exercises could expose faulty air-defence assumptions
More carriers in interwar exercises could provide earlier evidence against misleading assumptions about naval anti-aircraft defence.