Henderson advances naval aviation through private agreements and careful institutional compromise. Fisher is expected to confront the Air Ministry, Treasury, and political direction of naval policy openly rather than thread the same needle. His willingness to destroy internal opponents and take arguments into public politics could break an impasse that quieter methods only manage. It could also make the reform process bloody and unstable, because he enters a much more crowded political landscape than the one in which his original methods developed.
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Fisher attacks the Air Ministry and Treasury head-on
The same confrontational style that made Fisher effective in Edwardian politics could make the 1930s aviation and spending battles exceptionally disruptive.