Billy Mitchell's War with the Navy: The Interwar Rivalry Over Air Power

by Thomas Wildenberg

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870210386
• ISBN13: 9780870210389
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"