Comparing the ships nations could have completed with the programmes they surrendered under treaty limits reveals their strategic priorities. The loss included individual hulls and the design paths that might have followed them. The long effort to reserve Constitution for CC-1 shows that the US Navy understood the status it expected from the class. The name ties treaty choices to the political, industrial, and diplomatic purposes introduced at the start of the episode.
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What treaty limits removed from naval planning
The cancelled programmes show which capabilities and industrial commitments governments accepted losing through naval arms control.