Air Power Quotes

Air Power Quote of the day

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

If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to do so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.

Air power alone does not guarantee America's security, but I believe it best exploits the nation's greatest asset - our technical skill.

The weapon where the man is sitting in is always superior against the other.

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

No one can realize how substantial the air is, until he feels its supporting power beneath him. It inspires confidence at once.

Offense is the essence of air power.

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

Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless.

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.

Above all, I shall see to it that the enemy will not be able to drop any bombs.

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 own position.

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

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

Superior technical achievements - used correctly both strategically and tactically - can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.

"He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing," is one of the fundamental rules of defense.

The first and absolute requirement of strategic air power in this war was control of the air in order to carry out sustained operations without prohibitive losses.

Allied air power was the greatest single reason for the German defeat.

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

As the aeroplane is the most mobile weapon we possess, it is destined to become the dominant offensive arm of the future.

In the early stages of the fight Mr. Winston Churchill spoke with affectionate raillery of me and my "Chicks." He could have said nothing to make me more proud; every Chick was needed before the end.

How could they possibly be Japanese planes?

Only air power can defeat air power. The actual elimination or even stalemating of an attacking air force can be achieved only by a superior air force.

Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.

If our airforces are never used, they have achieved their finest goal.

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

What's the sense of sending $2 million missiles to hit a $10 tent that's empty?

We were once told that the aeroplane had "abolished frontiers"; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that frontiers have become definitely impassable.

I look upon air-power for destruction as a terrible crime against humanity.

Are you aware it is private property? Why you'll be asking be to bomb Essen next.

Air power is new to all our countries. It brings advantages to some and weakens others; it calls for readjustment everywhere.

The cavalry, in particular, were not friendly to the aeroplane, which it was believed, would frighten the horses.

I wish for many reasons flying had never been invented.

If we had these rockets in 1939, we should never have had this war.

It is not possible . . . to concentrate enough military planes with military loads over a modern city to destroy that city.

Is it likely that an aircraft carrier or a cruise missile is going to find a person?

Why don't we just buy one airplane and let the pilots take turns flying it.

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

There isn't any air power in the world that can take care of the problem of sectarian divisions.

I think I can say without fear of contradiction that we could generate sorties at an extremely high level and bring very, very effective air power to bear in support of our troops.

Freedom of action in space is as important to the United States as air power and sea power.