Billy Mitchell's War with the Navy
The Interwar Rivalry Over Air Power
When Billy Mitchell returned from WWI, he brought with him the deep-seated belief that air power had made navies obsolete. However, in the years following WWI, the U.S. Congress was far more interested in disarmament and isolationist policies than in funding national defense. For the military services this meant lean budgets and skeleton operating forces. Billy Mitchell's War with the Navy recounts the intense political struggle between the Army and Navy air arms for the limited resources needed to define and establish the role of aviation within their respective services in the period between the two world wars. After Congress rejected the c…
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- ISBN: 978-0-87021-038-9
- EAN: 9780870210389
- Produktnummer: 14930558
- Verlag: Naval Institute Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Masse: H16.6 cm x B23.8 cm x D2.9 cm 640 g
- Abbildungen: 25 black & white photographs
- Gewicht: 640
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
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