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over the land was assigned to the Army.  There was a little overlapping of duties between these services immediately along the coasts, but this was not a serious proposition.

6.  Now, however, air forces operating from land bases can control the surface of the sea and air over it up to their operating distance from the coast.  Within that distance a navy no longer has the paramount interest.  Therefore, the Navy's mission, so far as coast defense is concerned, has ceased to exist and its mission must be beyond the zone of aircraft activity.

7.  The land organization of a navy for coast defense and the land establishments incident to it can be dispensed with.  The money and effort heretofore put into these should not be placed in air defense organizations.

8.  The mission of land power and the army will remain very much the same.  The modifications necessary will consist largely in concentrating gun power aound the major units of infantry and giving them their maximum mobility.  Coast artillery, except at points that can be affected by gun fire from submarines, have become superfluous and the money and effort put into these should be transferred

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