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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick A. Talbot: In this phase of artillery the Germans led the way, for the
simple reason that they recognised the military value of aerial
navigation years in advance of their contemporaries. Again, in
this field the Krupp Organisation has played a prominent part.
It embarked upon actual construction of weapons while its rivals
in other countries were content to prepare their drawings, which
were filed against "The Day." But it must not be thought that
because the German manufacturers of armaments were ahead of
their contemporaries they dominated the situation. Far from it.
Their competitors in the market of destruction were every whit as
keen, as ingenious, and as enterprising. Kruppism saw a
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