The limits of air substitution

This chapter examines the process through which the frontiers of substitution were defined. It considers the formation of local military units controlled by the Air Ministry or intended to work with the Royal Air Force (RAF). Relations between the War Office and the Air Ministry during the 1920s were soured by long and apparently petty disputes over the demarcation of departmental responsibility. The chapter measures the extent of tactical co-operation between ground troops and aircraft. The extent of tactical co-operation between the army and the RAF in Europe has been thoroughly researched and carefully described by Derek Waldie. The chapter then discusses Hugh Trenchard's plans to substitute air for naval or coastal forces. Trenchard attempted to substitute air for naval or coastal forces in two distinct areas: the defence of imperial ports, most notably Singapore; and the policing of the slave trade in the Red Sea.

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