Air force Quote by Efraim Karsh

“The Iranians are pasting the place with artillery.” Above, a dozen contrails weaving tight patterns through the sky. One of them flared into a…

— Michael R. Hicks

“Secondly, given Iraq’s position as the largest and most powerful Arab state in the Gulf, it was viewed by the revolutionary regime as the…

— Efraim Karsh

“This mixture of political and geographical considerations compounded Saddam’s failure to grasp the operational requirements of such a campaign. Rather than allowing his forces…

— Efraim Karsh

Using overwhelming air power to utterly and completely destroy ISIS. To put things in perspective, in the first Persian Gulf War, we launched roughly…

— Ted Cruz

“Nevertheless, what saved Iran from a comprehensive defeat was not the ferocity of its military resistance but rather the limited objectives of the Iraqi…

— Efraim Karsh

The war between the Iranians and Iraqis is a touchy issue. To be quite honest, they each other's guts. It was not responsible to…

— Sam Nunn

“At this time, we do not believe large-scale ground combat is necessary to battle the latest wave of jihad. In Iraq, we have willing…

— Jay Sekulow

“Or take the opportunity offered to the United States following the attacks of September 11, 2001, when both Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Mohammed…

— Robert D. Kaplan

“And who but Allah could have used a fool like President Bush to remove Saddam, the man who had been the greatest obstacle to…

— Phillip Oliver Otts

“So before and during the war, the Bush administration had to build up an image in people's minds of Iraq as a monstrous military…

— Noam Chomsky

Iraq may have been a preview of that, but it's still redeemable if we get out fast. In a war with Iran, we'll get…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

“If something went wrong out in the desolate mountains of Iran, that was the end. No one would be coming to rescue them. Their…

— Stephen England