Action Quote by 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

Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological factors in war.

— B. H. Liddell Hart

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

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

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

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

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 will not defeat ISIS. It has not been able to deny ISIS freedom of maneuver and the ability to attack at will.

— Jack Keane

We need to use overwhelming air power. We need to be arming the Kurds. We need to be fighting and killing ISIS where they…

— Ted Cruz

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

Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms.

— Winston Churchill