LW50 - IMHO the loony thinkers are the land-war zealots who quote Thucydides, various Romans and Clausewitz to explain why the Navy is a secure transport service and the Army should own all the aircraft.
Like the American Enterprise Institute head-cases who compared a dispersed off-runway F-35B force to cavalry, I kid you not.
I mean, I think we had a discussion in the Global Unpleasantness of 1914-18 about whether the airplane was a very fast horse, a long-range gun or a kind of torpedo boat, and it concluded with a firm "none of the above".