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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7644393" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>We seem to have a side discussion going on the history of naval air power. I'm not sure either side of the discussion is wrong, just brief.</p><p></p><p>Another point that effected the ubiquity of air power in the inter-war period is that the majority of Naval powers were tightly confined by treaty obligations to only produce weapon systems with certain capabilities and in certain numbers. So in the case of air power, whether or not anyone really believed in it, the major powers would have still invested in air power because treaties limited the numbers and capabilities of pretty much all classes of major combat ships and since there were slots and tonnages in the treaties allocated for aircraft carriers, maximizing your total naval effectiveness meant maximizing your aircraft carriers whether or not you believed that they had a role beyond harassment and scouting. Plenty of US navy leaders even if they still felt that aircraft carriers would never be the major striking arm of the navy, would have allocated for strong carriers simply because the treaty rules - which were heavily based on the fear of a battleship arms race - very much limited battleship technology while leaving carriers much more open to spend money on. Had naval leaders had the option to spend that money on bigger and more capable and more numerous battleships, it's not clear that the carriers would have gotten as much attention (however ironic and absurd this would latter prove to be).</p><p></p><p>The degree to which this was a very serious controversy can be found in the ups and downs of the career and reputation of Billy Mitchell.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7644393, member: 4937"] We seem to have a side discussion going on the history of naval air power. I'm not sure either side of the discussion is wrong, just brief. Another point that effected the ubiquity of air power in the inter-war period is that the majority of Naval powers were tightly confined by treaty obligations to only produce weapon systems with certain capabilities and in certain numbers. So in the case of air power, whether or not anyone really believed in it, the major powers would have still invested in air power because treaties limited the numbers and capabilities of pretty much all classes of major combat ships and since there were slots and tonnages in the treaties allocated for aircraft carriers, maximizing your total naval effectiveness meant maximizing your aircraft carriers whether or not you believed that they had a role beyond harassment and scouting. Plenty of US navy leaders even if they still felt that aircraft carriers would never be the major striking arm of the navy, would have allocated for strong carriers simply because the treaty rules - which were heavily based on the fear of a battleship arms race - very much limited battleship technology while leaving carriers much more open to spend money on. Had naval leaders had the option to spend that money on bigger and more capable and more numerous battleships, it's not clear that the carriers would have gotten as much attention (however ironic and absurd this would latter prove to be). The degree to which this was a very serious controversy can be found in the ups and downs of the career and reputation of Billy Mitchell. [/QUOTE]
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