ABSTRACT
In an exchange of correspondence with Field Marshal Sir William Robertson in the Morning Post in 1924 the CIGS, Field Marshal Lord Cavan, replied:
Our great and threatening danger is that the Public see the necessity for a strong Air Force because they don’t want to be bombed, and a strong Navy to escort food and necessities of life to their shores, because they don’t want to be starved, but they don’t realise at all that neither Air Force nor Navy can operate without the protection of the Army. Consequently Governments are tempted to treat us as the unpopular sister, and we have to fight hard all the time.
