Wings of Empire

[...]the Royal Navy's and British Army's attempts to dismember the RAF after the war were simply the mirror image of U.S. airpower advocates trying to create an independent air force against the wishes of the U.S. Army and Navy. Renfrew illustrates this with a quote from the Commander in Chief of the Indian Army, Field Marshal Sir Philip Chetwode: Air Control, since it included killing the wives, children and animals of the people thought to be miscreants, was not a system that could survive scrutiny in the British press or in Parliament.