Burzagli treated the carrier question as a command-and-control problem. Aircraft would be most useful when they accompanied the fleet and could be coordinated by its commander. A carrier would keep aviation close to the ships it supported instead of leaving the fleet dependent on cooperation from land bases. Burzagli also pressed for a fleet air arm with naval control of torpedo bombers. Air power belonged inside fleet operations rather than in a separate service function.
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Why Burzagli wanted naval aviation under fleet command
Burzagli's case for a carrier and a fleet air arm rests on keeping reconnaissance and torpedo aircraft within the same command structure as the fleet.