More foreign carriers might encourage Germany to invest in a carrier of its own. Infrastructure, construction difficulties, and the personalities involved are judged likely to prevent a substantially earlier result. Germany would therefore still face an increased carrier threat from other navies. French light carriers introduce a separate uncertainty because their later role would depend on whether they served Free French or Vichy forces. Their subsequent operations remain an open question in this scenario.
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German construction limits and French allegiance leave further uncertainties
Foreign carrier growth would not automatically remove Germany's building constraints, and French carriers could follow very different wartime paths.