| Publication |
2011.
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| Summary/Abstract |
In late 2006, Andrew Marshall, the Director of the Office of Net Assessment in
the Office of the Secretary of Defense, asked us to answer several questions: Why
had the Royal Navy (RN) developed the angled flight deck, steam catapult, and
optical landing aid before the U.S. Navy (USN) did? Why had the USN not developed these innovations, which "transformed carrier
design and made practical the wholesale use of
high-performance jet aircraft," in parallel with the
RN?
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Once developed by the RN, how had these three
innovations "jumped the gap" to the USN?
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