Absolutes Quote by Carl Andrew Spaatz

Relying exclusively on air power has limits: planes are effective against fixed strategic targets, like petroleum storage, bridges, and command bunkers; but even then,…

— Michael Ignatieff

Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy's economic and moral centres without having first to achieve 'the destruction of the enemy's…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications a share…

— Winston Churchill

To have command of the air means to be able to cut an enemy's army and navy off from their bases of operation and…

— Giulio Douhet

Military history shows air action only cannot achieve the goal of defeating an enemy.

— Dan Coats

In order to assure an adequate national defense, it is necessary - and sufficient - to be in a position in case of war…

— Giulio Douhet

Only air power can defeat air power. The actual elimination or even stalemating of an attacking air force can be achieved only by a…

— Alexander P. de Seversky

Air superiority is the ultimate expression of military power.

— Winston Churchill

In our victory over Japan, airpower was unquestionably decisive. That the planned invasion of the Japanese Home islands was unnecessary is clear evidence that…

— Carl Andrew Spaatz

Strategic air assault is wasted if it is dissipated piecemeal in sporadic attacks between which the enemy has an opportunity to readjust defenses or…

— Henry H. Arnold

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 potential and…

— Omar N. Bradley

Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.

— Anonymous