Modern carrier debates often repeat an older claim that air power is indivisible and can be supplied from land under one air service. That theory shaped the 1918 creation of the Royal Air Force from the Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Flying Corps. The institutional choice removed aviation from both the Royal Navy and British Army, making control of specialized air support a century-old interservice question. This history explains why arguments over land-based coverage and embarked aviation recur even as aircraft and weapons change.
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The old argument over indivisible air power
Claims that all aviation should be centrally controlled are placed in the institutional history of the RAF's 1918 creation from naval and army air services.