. "I do remember reading (iirc, in Friedman's US Cruisers) that there were a number of high ranking naval officers who felt that the Lexington and Saratoga were too big, and tied up too much of the USN's treaty allotment in too few hulls.That only makes sense if one could reasonably expect a war to be fought under treaty restrictions. (Which is of course nonsense.) it is the attitude of people worried" . . .