Air Quote by Merrill McPeak

Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war.

— Dan Quayle

Desert Storm created the pattern for the American way of war that eventually prevailed in Kosovo. America learned from Vietnam that unilateral use of…

— Michael Ignatieff

Desert Storm was seen by the military establishment and by some politicians as avenging Vietnam, but it left behind dangerous illusions. The victory was…

— Michael Ignatieff

The magnificent army that fought in Desert Storm is a great army, and it still is a magnificent army today. But it was one…

— Eric Shinseki

“I called the desert into a storm.”

— Alwyn Hamilton

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

Most people forget that even in Iraq, by the time the air and no-fly zone was established, the air defence system had been removed…

— Kofi Annan

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

In my day, we had mastered high-intensity conflict, which is why I think we were so successful in Desert Shield, Desert Storm, and then…

— Mark Esper

If this practice [of totalitarianism] is compared with […] [the desert] of tyranny, it seems as if a way had been found to set…

— Hannah Arendt

Only the defeated and deserters go to war.

— Henry David Thoreau

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