Air Quote by Henry H. Arnold

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

The one effective method of defending one's own territory from an offensive by air is to destroy the enemy's air power with the greatest…

— Giulio Douhet

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

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

When an aggressor force continually launches attacks from a particular base of operations, it is sound military strategy to take the flight to the…

— Timothy McVeigh

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

Retention of operational control of its air is important to the Corps' air-ground team, as air constitutes a significant part of its offensive firepower.

— Keith B. McCutcheon

The first and absolute requirement of strategic air power in this war was control of the air in order to carry out sustained operations…

— Carl Andrew Spaatz

If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly.

— Bernard Law Montgomery

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

— Sun Tzu

Air superiority is the ultimate expression of military power.

— Winston Churchill

Never abandon the possibility of attack. Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy's plans. This often results in improving one's…

— Adolf Galland