Quick!  Who is this guy? Let me give you a hint. Born in 1879, he entered the American Army as a private during the Spanish-American War. After the war he was in the United States Army Signal Corps and spent four years in Alaska stringing telegraph wire from Alaska Gold Rush boomtowns to the Lower 48 states – then, actually, the Lower 45 states. He spent the next two decades pestering the United States military to seriously look at aviation.  He antagonized the ‘powers that be’ by predicting future wars would be fought in the air, not on the ground or on the sea.  Or under the sea.  Military dollars, this man said, should be used for air power not more battleships. This, the Navy did not like. To squelch the concept, the Navy scheduled a bombing of two derelict ships which turned out to be fraud. Rather than using bombs that went ‘boom,’ the Navy used sandbags which went ‘splat.’ When word leaked to Congress, it demanded a real test – which took place on July 21, 1921. The target was the captured German battleship Ostfriesland. Even without a direct hit, it sank in nine minutes. But still the Navy would not seriously consider air power. Four years later this man accused the United States Navy of “almost treasonable administration of the national defense” and that was too much for the brass. He was court martialed. Found guilty, he resigned. He died in 1936 and five years later, on December 7, 1941, the United States military learned just how right he had been.  He was Billy Mitchell. Just because someone’s ideas appear to be ‘crazy,’ does not mean they are wrong. https://bit.ly/2RsZ6N1, https://www.authormasterminds.com/steve-levi