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Totally agreed, politically, but wasn't Billy Mitchell demonstrating air power vs naval as far back as 1921? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Mitchell#Projec
by aqme28 5y ago
Totally agreed, politically, but wasn't Billy Mitchell demonstrating air power vs naval as far back as 1921? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Mitchell#Project_B:_Anti-ship_bombing_demonstration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Mitchell#Project_B:_Anti...
It seems mostly like the powers that be weren't ready to accept it.
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- jabl 5y agoIndeed, Mitchell's experiments were one of the first to suggest that air power might have a role beyond scouting in naval combat. And no doubt, history proved him to be right. But again, it would still have been a very risky gamble that air power is the future when all your potential adversaries are building ever bigger battleships.