The Queen Elizabeth class has generated abundant high-quality research. Its popularity has also encouraged writers to select evidence for existing beliefs about design and naval policy. A persuasive explanation must consider engines, displacement, hull form, institutions, and strategy together. A single convenient defect cannot explain why the ships took their final form.
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Queen Elizabeth historiography and selective evidence
The opening warns that the class's fame produces both rich documentation and arguments built by selecting only the evidence that supports a preferred theory.