Bomber priorities shape naval aircraft engine supply

A contemporary journalist interpreted the Air Ministry's priorities as the result of control by the RAF bomber faction. In his account, successes by the Fleet Air Arm or Coastal Command could divert resources and weaken the case for concentrating effort on bombers. That gave the faction an incentive to restrict competing programmes, including their access to engines. He nevertheless acknowledged the logic of this policy if bombers really could get through and decide wars. His criticism was that concentrating resources this way gambled Britain's force development on a single theory of victory. This is an interpretation from the journalist's papers, and he is not named here.