Churchill's role here is that of an institutional accelerator. He backed other people's ideas with unusual persistence, political access, and enthusiasm. Some schemes failed, but tanks and naval aviation moved from speculative concepts toward operational systems while he was pushing them. Similar technologies might have emerged without him, yet their timing and pace could have been different. The passage offers a balanced way to assign credit for innovation inside large military organizations.
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Churchill, tanks, and institutional push
The tank section gives Churchill credit for pushing ideas through institutions even when not every scheme was good.