Destructive Quote by H. G. Wells

I can see that aerial warfare is actually scientific murder.

— Eddie Rickenbacker

At the end of the first half-century of engine-driven flight, we are confronted with the stark fact that the historical significance of aircraft has…

— Charles Lindbergh

The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.

— Iain Banks

That was how divorced from the human scale modern warfare had become. You could smash and destroy from unthinkable distances, obliterate planets from beyond…

— Iain Banks

The military mind always imagines that the next war will be on the same lines as the last. That has never been the case…

— Ferdinand Foch

Even though there wasn't much damage, it's a disgrace that the skies over the imperial capital should have been defiled without a single enemy…

— Isoroku Yamamoto

We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with…

— Douglas Bader

Forty years after a battle it is easy for a non-combatant to reason about how it ought to have been fought. It is another…

— Herman Melville

Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11.

— Richard Ben-Veniste

How could a guy sitting in a cave in Afghanistan, have... plotted so perfectly the hijacking of four planes and then guaranteed that three…

— Michael Moore

The great defence against aerial menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

— Winston Churchill

We ceased to deal seriously with mobile combat. We relegated to oblivion the fundamentals of combat-in-depth tactics and of combined arms maneuvers which had…

— Sergey Biryuzov