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> [Only air power can defeat air power. The actual elimination or even stalemating of an attacking air force can be achieved only by a superior air force.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-p-de-seversky/only-air-power-can-defeat-air-power-the-actual-elimination-or-even/)

Alexander P. de Seversky

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> [Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-p-de-seversky/air-power-speaks-a-strategic-language-so-new-that-translation-into/)

Alexander P. de Seversky

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## More by Alexander P. de Seversky

> [Only air power can defeat air power. The actual elimination or even stalemating of an attacking air force can be achieved only by a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-p-de-seversky/only-air-power-can-defeat-air-power-the-actual-elimination-or-even/)

Alexander P. de Seversky

> [I discovered early that the hardest thing to overcome is not a physical disability but the mental condition which it induces. The world, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-p-de-seversky/i-discovered-early-that-the-hardest-thing-to-overcome-is-not-a/)

Alexander P. de Seversky

> [Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-p-de-seversky/air-power-speaks-a-strategic-language-so-new-that-translation-into/)

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