How the Korean War shaped the post-war US Navy

How would the absence of the Korean War have affected US strategic thinking and the Navy?

It could have weakened remembered lessons in logistics and amphibious warfare and reduced the Navy's leverage for carrier aviation.

The Korean War forced the United States to reactivate mothballed ships and demonstrate how quickly a supposedly post-war fleet could be needed again. It renewed attention to combat logistics and amphibious warfare rather than allowing those Second World War skills to fade. Carrier operations also gave the US Navy practical evidence for the value of naval aviation during an early Cold War institutional contest. Without the conflict, those lessons might have been remembered less urgently and the Navy's case for carriers could have been weaker.