Are you aware it is private property? Why you'll be asking be to bomb Essen next. — Kingsley Wood 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
"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
Freedom of action in space is as important to the United States as air power and sea power. — George W. Bush 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
Why don't we just buy one airplane and let the pilots take turns flying it. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Strategic air assault is wasted if it is dissipated piecemeal in sporadic attacks between which the enemy has an opportunity to readjust… — Henry H. Arnold Copy Share Image
We need to do whatever is necessary to utterly defeat ISIS…We're not using our overwhelming air power. We're not arming the Kurds.… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
I am purely evil; Hear the thrum of my evil engine; Evilly I come. The stars are thick as flowers In the… — Ethel Mannin Copy Share Image
The sky over London was glorious, ochre and madder, as though a dozen tropic suns were simultaneously setting round the horizon .… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The country will some day pay for the stupidities of those who were in the majority on this commission. They know as… — Jimmy Doolittle Copy Share Image
Only air power can defeat air power. The actual elimination or even stalemating of an attacking air force can be achieved only… — Alexander P. de Seversky Copy Share Image
Desert Storm was a war which involved the massive use of air power and a victory achieved by the U.S. and multinational… — Merrill McPeak Copy Share Image
Airpower has become predominant, both as a deterrent to war, and-in the eventuality of war-as the devastating force to destroy an enemy's… — Omar N. Bradley Copy Share Image
Using overwhelming air power to utterly and completely destroy ISIS. To put things in perspective, in the first Persian Gulf War, we… — Ted Cruz 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
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
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
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
“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
My solution to the problem would be to tell [the North Vietnamese Communists] frankly that they've got to draw in their horns… — Curtis LeMay Copy Share Image
Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless. — Ferdinand Foch 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
There isn't any air power in the world that can take care of the problem of sectarian divisions. — Bob Menendez Copy Share Image
The weapon where the man is sitting in is always superior against the other. — Erich Hartmann 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
Because of its independence of surface limitations and its superior speed the airplane is the offensive weapon par excellence. — Giulio Douhet Copy Share Image
Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset… — Bernard Law Montgomery Copy Share Image
As the aeroplane is the most mobile weapon we possess, it is destined to become the dominant offensive arm of the future. — J. F. C. Fuller Copy Share Image
It is not possible . . . to concentrate enough military planes with military loads over a modern city to destroy that city. — John Thomason Copy Share Image
Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations. — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
Is it likely that an aircraft carrier or a cruise missile is going to find a person? — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
I look upon air-power for destruction as a terrible crime against humanity. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Goering. You may call me Meyer. — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
In the early stages of the fight Mr. Winston Churchill spoke with affectionate raillery of me and my "Chicks." He could have… — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding Copy Share Image
During the Battle of Britain the question "fighter or fighter-bomber?" had been decided once and for all: The fighter can only be… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological factors in… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image