If our airforces are never used, they have achieved their finest goal. — Nathan Farragut Twining Copy Share Image
A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame. — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
There isn't any air power in the world that can take care of the problem of sectarian divisions. — Bob Menendez Copy Share Image
If we maintain our faith in God, love of freedom, and superior global air power, the future looks good. — Curtis LeMay Copy Share Image
The weapon where the man is sitting in is always superior against the other. — Erich Hartmann Copy Share Image
Why don't we just buy one airplane and let the pilots take turns flying it. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
What's the sense of sending $2 million missiles to hit a $10 tent that's empty? — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless. — Ferdinand Foch Copy Share Image
Air power alone does not guarantee America's security, but I believe it best exploits the nation's greatest asset - our technical skill. — Hoyt Vandenberg Copy Share Image
My Luftwaffe is invincible... And so now we turn to England. How long will this one last - two, three weeks? — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
I would attack any squadron blockading a port. Nothing could prevent me from dropping out of the clear blue sky on to… — Jules Vedrines Copy Share Image
And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The one effective method of defending one's own territory from an offensive by air is to destroy the enemy's air power with… — Giulio Douhet Copy Share Image
Would not the sight of a single enemy airplane be enough to induce a formidable panic? Normal life would be unable to… — Giulio Douhet Copy Share Image
The Air Force comes in every morning and says, 'Bomb, bomb, bomb' ... And then the State Department comes in and says,… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Such an experiment without actual conditions of war to support it is a foolish waste of time. . . . I once… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Pershing won [WWI] without even looking into an airplane, let alone gong up in one. If they had been of such importance… — John W. Weeks Copy Share Image
War is a nasty, dirty, rotten business. It's all right for the Navy to blockade a city, to starve the inhabitants to… — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
The decision to rely heavily on high-altitude air power, target urban infrastructure and repeatedly attack heavily populated towns and villages has reflected… — Seumas Milne Copy Share Image
“Smith proposed not to use air power, but to employ an ad hoc group to open Mount Igman road into Sarajevo. This… — Jan Willem Honig Copy Share Image
The best way to defend the bombers is to catch the enemy before it his in position to attack. Catch them when… — Robin Olds Copy Share Image
When the United States first went into Afghanistan in 2001, it devastated the Taliban and Al Qaeda in a matter of weeks… — Erik Prince Copy Share Image
Adolf Galland said that the day we took our fighters off the bombers and put them against the German fighters, that is,… — Jimmy Doolittle Copy Share Image
ISIS is a formidable foe, but the counter forces to it have only just begun and if these forces, the Iraqi army,… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy's economic and moral centres without having first to achieve 'the destruction of… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
“In this world, anything is possible. The United States might win a future war relying solely on air power for the first… — Frederick Kagan Copy Share Image
Allied air power was the greatest single reason for the German defeat. — Albert Kesselring Copy Share Image
Freedom of action in space is as important to the United States as air power and sea power. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
"He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing," is one of the fundamental rules of defense. — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible. — Alexander P. de Seversky Copy Share Image
Air power will not defeat ISIS. It has not been able to deny ISIS freedom of maneuver and the ability to attack… — Jack Keane Copy Share Image
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