Popular accounts often cast interwar admirals as prisoners of battleship thinking. Procurement tells a different story: numerous new carriers entered service in a decade when very few new battleships did. Their varied sizes and layouts show navies testing different answers rather than ignoring aviation. The carrier programs demonstrate sustained experimentation and institutional investment well before wartime combat proved the mature type.
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Interwar construction challenges the battleship-only myth
Eleven carriers built during the 1920s undermine the idea that admirals ignored aviation while concentrating exclusively on battleships.