Air Power Quotes

• The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Air, Force

  Winston S. Churchill (2010). “The Gathering Storm: The Second World War”, p.562, RosettaBooks

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

  Bernard Law Montgomery

  War, Air, Aviation

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• 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 fatally undermine his will to wage war.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Military, War, Enemy

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• 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 possible speed.

  Giulio Douhet

  Air, Enemy, Territory

  General Giulio Douhet (2014). “Command Of The Air”, p.165, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Air, Independence

  Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Arms and the Covenant”, p.54, RosettaBooks

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• Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  "War As I Knew It". Book by George S. Patton. Chapter "Reflections and Suggestions", 1947.

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

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Air, Force

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  War, Air, Soldier

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• Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible.

  Alexander P. de Seversky

  Past, Air, Impossible

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• If we maintain our faith in God, love of freedom, and superior global air power, the future looks good.

  Curtis LeMay

  Military, Air, Looks

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• For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Army, Air

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• 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 nullify their chances of winning the war.

  Giulio Douhet

  Military, War, Mean

  General Giulio Douhet (2014). “Command Of The Air”, p.42, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• In our victory over Japan, airpower was unquestionably decisive. That the planned invasion of the Japanese Home islands was unnecessary is clear evidence that airpower has evolved into a force in war co-equal with land and sea power, decisive in its own right and worthy of the faith of its prophets.

  Carl Andrew Spaatz

  Military, War, Home

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• Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset - its flexibility.

  Bernard Law Montgomery

  Air, Pieces, Splits

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• Because of its independence of surface limitations and its superior speed the airplane is the offensive weapon par excellence.

  Giulio Douhet

  Airplane, Independence, Excellence

  General Giulio Douhet (2014). “Command Of The Air”, p.32, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Air power may either end war or end civilization.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, War, Air

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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• Air control can be established by superiority in numbers, by better employment, by better equipment, or by a combination of these factors.

  Carl Andrew Spaatz

  Military, Air, Numbers

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• A modern, autonomous, and thoroughly trained Air Force in being at all times will not alone be sufficient, but without it there can be no national security.

  Henry H. Arnold

  Air, Aviation, Modern

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• Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

  H. G. Wells

  War, Army, Air

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Anticipations: H. G. Wells Collections”, p.97, 谷月社

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• Offense is the essence of air power.

  Henry H. Arnold

  Military, Air, Essence

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• Desert Storm was a war which involved the massive use of air power and a victory achieved by the U.S. and multinational air force units. It was also the first war in history in which air power was used to defeat ground forces.

  Merrill McPeak

  Military, War, Air

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• My solution to the problem would be to tell [the North Vietnamese Communists] frankly that they've got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the Stone Age. And we would shove them back into the Stone Age with Air power or Naval power - not with ground forces.

  Curtis LeMay

  Military, Age, Vietnam

  "Mission With LeMay: My Story". Book by Curtis E LeMay and MacKinlay Kantor, p. 565, 1965.

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• The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. The fighters are our salvation, but the bombers alone provide the means of victory.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Mean, Winning

  Winston Churchill (1986). “Their Finest Hour”, p.405, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Europe, Aviation, Fortresses

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• Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side that employs air power as it should be employed.

  Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

  Military, Air, Victory

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