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Victory at the Philippine Sea was a system advantage

Asked to rank radar, fighter direction, aircraft, training, communications, and command, the answer treats their interaction as the decisive advantage.

Question

Did one factor matter more than the others in the U.S. Navy's victory at the Battle of the Philippine Sea?

Short answer

No; radar, fighter direction, aircraft, training, communications, and command structure combined into a cumulative advantage.

Notes

The question separates the Combat Information Center, fighter direction, new aircraft, training, communications, radar, and command structure into possible single causes. None is dominant. Any individual improvement would have offered a limited advantage on its own. Together they created a cumulative system advantage far larger than the contribution of one technology or practice.