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a fraction of this. If, for instance, we take an air sector from the Chesapeake Bay to and including Maine, approximately eight hundred miles in length, which can be covered by an air force in eight hours or less, several sectors of defense would have to be organized by the ground troops for this distance. To assign air force units to any one of these ground organizations would result in the piecemeal application of air power and the inability to develop the maximum force at the critical point. Therefore, all air force units should be directly under the orders of the Commander in Chief of the military power of the country.

16. Local air defense units destined for the protection of a locality likewise should be under the control of the supreme commander and also in close liaison with the ground troops in their vicinity.

17. Auxiliary air units should be under the command of the military elements to which they are assigned, subject to the general control as to training, sector, depth of reconnaissance, methods, and supply by the air force. 

18. The establishment and control of airways and the seizure of aviation bases in offensive operation, in which the air force

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