The way that those systems are designed determine the effect of those rivalries on the organization’s effectiveness. Inter-service and intra-service rivalries are just an expression of the office politics that plague every large organization. Like Admiral Motti, they argued that any military problem could be solved by flying to the scene with the biggest weapon available and blowing the problem up – thus making the other services irrelevant. In the aftermath of World War II and the dawn of the nuclear era, the newly formed US Air Force made a concentrated effort to become the foremost military service, arguing that between long-range bombers and nuclear weapons, there would be no further need for the Navy or Marine forces.
This type of rivalry isn’t unique to the Empire-the argument between General Tagge and Admiral Motti isn’t even specific to the Death Star. For the Army, the Death Star represents the potential death of their service as a viable political force. The stakes are high: For the Navy, the Death Star represents the ultimate in bureaucratic power-grabs, a guarantee of perpetual dominance on top of the Imperial pecking order. In fact, our very first glimpse of the Imperial High Command is an argument between the Army and the Navy about the strategic vulnerability of the Death Star. The Army is going to compete with the Navy, the Fighter jocks are going to compete with the Star Destroyer Captains, and the AT-AT crews are going to compete with Storm Troopers. This is, of course, a façade – like all humans, the soldiers and Officers of the Imperial Military will each have their own interests and loyalties. Storm Troopers, TIE Fighters and even Star Destroyers are supposedly just indistinguishable cogs in a massive military machine, single-mindedly pursuing a common goal. In Star Wars, the Empire is presented as a monolith. Johnson, December 1949ĭangerous to your Star Fleet Commander, not to this battle station… This station is now the ultimate power in the universe.
And the Air Force can do anything the Navy can do nowadays, so that does away with the Navy.” “There’s no reason for having a Navy and Marine Corps… We’ll never have any more amphibious operations.
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