…. Responses to a New Technology, 1903-1939.
"Integrating the Airplane into the Cavalry
In a study that has important lessons for modern military establishments, Prof. Henning (St. Bonaventure) looks at the ways in which the British and American cavalries considered the potential value of fixed wing aviation, a new, unreliable, and untested technology, a subject largely neglected in the literature of air power.
The two services differed in their responses to the new technology, in part due to cultural differences, and in part to significantly different perceptions of the role of cavalry, Britons seeing it as a multi-mission force fighting primarily mounted, and Americans primarily as mounted infantry. Initial legitimate objections about the limitations of the technology were gradually overcome, particularly with regard to the use of airplanes for reconnaissance, and both services would eventually become comfortable with their use…"
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