How carrier victory changes US air-service politics

Would the US Army air arm gain more independence and aircraft production in the 1920s?

It would still seek more power, but a successful naval air campaign and the possible absence of an independent RAF would strengthen the Navy's political resistance to a separate US air service.

The scenario expects Army aviators to continue seeking greater institutional independence and aircraft production. Its change is the precedent available in the debate: the celebrated air-power success belongs to a naval carrier force. Britain's unified RAF might also fail to form in the earlier peace. Those assumptions underpin the proposed stronger position for naval aviation in American service politics.