Before 1914, airplanes barely featured in military thinking. The French air corps, with three dozen planes, was larger than all the other air forces in the world put together. Germany, Britain, Italy, Russia, Japan, and Austria all had no more than four planes in their fleets; the United States had just two.
Source: Bill Bryson's book on America, 1927, excerpted at the end of his A Walk in the Woods
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