They had bombed London, whether on purpose or not, and the British people and London especially should know that we could hit… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We're at a real time of transition here in terms of future aviation. What's going to be manned? What's going to be… — Michael Mullen Copy Share Image
To have command of the air means to be able to cut an enemy's army and navy off from their bases of… — Giulio Douhet Copy Share Image
The conviction of the justification of using even the most brutal weapons is always dependent on the presence of a fanatical belief… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Air power and military are meant to fight the enemy and not your own citizens... How do you differentiate a Maoist?... It… — Kishore Chandra Deo Copy Share Image
In order to assure an adequate national defense, it is necessary - and sufficient - to be in a position in case… — Giulio Douhet Copy Share Image
Never abandon the possibility of attack. Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy's plans. This often results in… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
A modern, autonomous, and thoroughly trained Air Force in being at all times will not alone be sufficient, but without it there… — Henry H. Arnold Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I think that there's an important point to make if you're running for president, which is that you tell the American people… — Eric Bolling Copy Share Image
I will not wage war against women and children! I have instructed my air force to limit their attacks to military objectives.… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
This counter-terrorism campaign will be waged through a steady, relentless effort to take out Isil wherever they exist, using our air power… — Barack Obama 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
I have a mathematical certainty that the future will confirm my assertion that aerial warfare will be the most important element in… — Giulio Douhet 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
I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal… Every soldier thinks something of… — Curtis LeMay Copy Share Image
Whatever the lengths to which others may go, His Majesty's Government will never resort to the deliberate attack on women and children… — Neville Chamberlain Copy Share Image
I think I can say without fear of contradiction that we could generate sorties at an extremely high level and bring very,… — Bill Vaughan 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
You would carpet bomb where ISIS is, not a city, but the location of the troops. You use air power directed -… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
From now on we shall bomb Germany on an ever-increasing scale, month by month, year by year, until the Nazi regime has… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
When I look round to see how we can win the war, I see that there is only one sure path .… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
A modern state is such a complex and interdependent fabric that it offers a target highly sensitive to a sudden and overwhelming… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
To use a fighter as a fighter-bomber when the strength of the fighter arm is inadequate to achieve air superiority is putting… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
We are going to scourge the Third Reich from end to end. We are bombing Germany city by city and ever more… — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
Superior technical achievements - used correctly both strategically and tactically - can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior. — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image