Land based air power or aircraft carriers? A case study of the British debate about maritime air power in the 1960s

摘要

In Land based air power or aircraft carriers, Gjert Lage Dyndal has made an important contri bution to the historical analysis on Britain's political decision to dispense with aircraft carriers in the 1960s and, more generally, on the way a range of political and economic factors intertwined with a fierce RN-RAF inter-service rivalry to influence and shape Britain's strategy-making in these crucial years.