Aircraft carriers depend on the prior development of reliable aircraft and naval aviation practice. Without a long war, the British, Americans, and Japanese have less reason to share technology and operational experience, so their programs may diverge sharply. Britain might still invest in aviation to compensate for perceived fleet losses. The timing and international pattern would differ from the historical post-1918 trajectory.
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Naval aviation without wartime acceleration
Carrier development continues, but more slowly and along separate national paths without wartime experimentation and postwar Anglo-American-Japanese exchange.