——the carrier is there is to get practice-—
An academic exercise...... I can go with that.
I watched Tora, Tora, Tora Wednesday and the presentation of the battle within the Japanese navy over a battleship or carrier superiority. The officers nearly came to blows in spite of their white gloves
Since there is only one Russian carrier that has been shown with painful reality to be far from up to snuff, perhaps there is a similar battle within the Russian navy about carriers. What we have is worthless and we need to start all over with new up to date everything vs we don’t need carriers at all, forget a bout it.
You might like “The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945” by James D. Hornfischer.
It is a follow up to his “Neptunes Inferno” about the Guadalcanal Campaign that proceeded it. It takes in a much broader picture and ends with air campaign to deliver the bombs.
Those two books if we also add something for Midway all together tell us all the WWII taught us about Carrier warfare.