A much shorter Pacific campaign produces fewer carrier battles from which navies can draw operational lessons. The surviving examples might be a British night strike followed by a major American daylight carrier action days or weeks later. The video closes by asking which conclusions about carrier operations would be learned, which would be missed, and whether incomplete wartime experience would impose costs in a later conflict. This is an open question for viewers rather than an answered Q&A exchange.
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What would navies learn from a shorter carrier war?
The closing thought experiment asks how naval aviation doctrine develops if the Pacific war contains only a British night strike and one major American carrier battle.