General Wingrove ignites a national uproar when he demands that Congress abolish the U.S. Navy, setting off a furious rivalry with Admiral Fitzjames and a media frenzy that turns military pride into public spectacle. Determined to prove the Navy obsolete, the Army stages a dazzling demonstration at the Jefferson Memorial, where the revolutionary Dornifier lets tanks, trucks, and even a jet aircraft skim across the Potomac as if it were a highway. Newspapers, radio, television, and cheering citizens quickly push Congress toward voting the Navy out of existence. But the Navy has one last, outrageous answer. Fitzjames unveils a device that dissolves the binding forces of solid matter, allowing the battleship Missouri to roll over land and surge up Constitution Avenue. In one absurdly triumphant reversal, the Army's victory collapses, and the contest becomes a gleeful satire of propaganda, technological bravado, and interservice one-upmanship. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.