Claims that a new technology will make older forms of warfare obsolete recur throughout the debate. Nuclear weapons, bombers, destroyers, and submarines were each sold as decisive transformations. War more often gains new dimensions while infantry, aircraft, ships, and supporting systems remain necessary. For an expeditionary state, naval aviation and the means to sustain it therefore remain part of force planning.
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New weapons expand warfare rather than end it
Nuclear weapons, air power, submarines, and destroyers changed warfare, but none removed the need for forces in other domains.