The loss of trust between Army aviation and the Navy reduced opportunities for joint learning. Fleet Problems should have included Army aviation and personnel, especially when they addressed amphibious operations. Army logistics and resupply exercises likewise needed naval participation. The criticism concerns cooperation in operations while retaining separate services. Mitchell's legacy offers one explanation for their persistent friction, although later opportunities to cooperate complicate any claim that he alone caused wartime losses.
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Army-Navy mistrust and missed joint exercises
Mitchell's damaged Army-Navy relationships weakened joint exercises and operational learning before the Second World War.