There has never been a country without a significant naval force that has defeated a country with a naval force in modern history. The preeminence of Naval sea power in the early 20th century was the dreadnaught class battleship. So powerful and armored was this class of battleships that naval tacticians believed at the time that only a dreadnaught could sink another dreadnaught. Mitchell would forever change tacticians’ views on the importance of aircraft through publicity and the use of the Martin NBS-1 to bomb naval ships.