The unanswered exercise places the viewer in charge of a smaller South American state in the 1870s or 1880s, outside Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, and Brazil. The first decision is whether to create a navy and, if so, what force structure the state can support. Developing domestic construction would require iron, other suppliers, and supporting infrastructure. The prompt asks whether the state's industrial base can build and support the fleet it wants. No answer is given, leaving the tradeoff for the viewer to work through.
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The industrial dilemma behind building a minor navy
The closing design exercise asks what navy a smaller South American state in the 1870s or 1880s could build and what industry would support it.