Mitchell's air-power programme centered on strategic bombing. He opposed aircraft carriers and rejected the prospect of their aircraft attacking Pearl Harbor. The attack he envisaged would instead come from strategic bombers operating from Pacific islands. His warning therefore differed from the carrier attack that later became central to his prophetic reputation.
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Mitchell's Pearl Harbor warning envisaged strategic bombers
Mitchell expected an air threat to Pearl Harbor while dismissing carrier aircraft as insufficiently powerful for the task.