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Harnessing the Airplane - American and British Cavalry Responses to a New Technology, 1903-1939 (Paperback)
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Harnessing the Airplane - American and British Cavalry Responses to a New Technology, 1903-1939 (Paperback)
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At its dawn in the early twentieth century, the new technology of
aviation posed a crucial question to American and British cavalry:
what do we do with the airplane? Lacking the hindsight of
historical perspective, cavalry planners based their decisions on
incomplete information. Harnessing the Airplane compares how the
American and British armies dealt with this unique challenge. A
multilayered look at a critical aspect of modern industrial
warfare, this book examines the ramifications of technological
innovation and its role in the fraught relationship that developed
between traditional ground units and emerging air forces. Cavalry
officers pondered the potential military uses of airplanes and
other new technologies early on, but preferred to test them before
embracing and incorporating them in their operations. Cavalrymen
cautiously examined airplane capabilities, developed applications
and doctrine for joint operations, and in the United States, even
tried to develop their own, specially designed craft. Throughout
the interwar period, instead of replacing the cavalry, airplanes
were used cooperatively with cavalry forces in reconnaissance,
security, communication, protection, and pursuit-a collaboration
tested in maneuvers and officially blessed in both British and
American doctrine. This interdependent relationship changed
drastically, however, during the 1930s as aviation priorities and
doctrine shifted from tactical support of ground troops toward
independent strategic bombardment. Henning shows that the American
and British experiences with military aviation differed. The
nascent British aviation service made quicker inroads into
reconnaissance and scouting, even though the British cavalry was
the older institution with more-established traditions. The
American cavalry, despite its youth, contested the control of
reconnaissance as late as the 1930s, years after similar arguments
ended in Britain. Drawing on contemporary government reports,
memoirs and journals of service personnel, books, and professional
and trade journals and magazines, Harnessing the Airplane is a
nuanced account of the cavalry's response to aviation over time and
presents a new perspective on a significant chapter of
twentieth-century military history.
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