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SUMMARY:'Flat-tops or Not': Air power\, policy-making and the Royal Navy s
 ince 1982 - Mike Finn
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CONTACT:Ilya Berkovich
DESCRIPTION:The Falklands War of 1982 has had an unparallelled impact on t
 hinking about fixed-wing air power in the Royal Navy. While previously the
  Fleet Air Arm had often been regarded as a poor relation to the wider sur
 face Fleet\, the victories (real and imagined) of the Sea Harriers and the
 ir carriers in spring 1982 captured the public imagination and transformed
  the prestige of naval air power not merely within the Senior Service\, bu
 t throughout the nation as a whole. The Falklands experience - interpreted
  in particular ways - has played a key part in the decision to acquire two
  new Fleet carriers\, the strategies for their deployment and the tactics 
 for their defence. Yet it may be the case\, as Lewis Page notes\, that the
  wrong lessons were learnt from the Falklands.\n\nThis paper seeks to inte
 rrogate the different versions of history which have informed thinking on 
 maritime air power in both the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force\, and to
  examine the legacies of these contested histories for future carrier oper
 ations in an era of growing commitments accompanied by shrinking resources
 . With the new carrier programme envisaging an ever-closer relationship be
 tween the Navy and the Air Force\, it is now time - within a 'history of p
 olicy' frame - to take a closer look at the afterlife of a conflict which 
 has shaped the debate on the role of naval air power in the armed forces o
 f the United Kingdom.
LOCATION:Walters Room\, Selwyn College
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