“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 main forces on the battlefield'. Air-power might attain a direct end by indirect means - hopping over opposition instead of overthrowing it.” FirstsMeanEndsMightForceMoralEnemyAirEconomicAchieveMilitaryPossibilityDirectDestructionOppositionCentreBattlefieldsAir ForceIndirectAir PowerHopping Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“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.” FirstsWarOrderLossAirMilitaryAbsolutesOperationsAviationRequirementsStrategicAir PowerAirpowerMilitary Aviation Author:Carl Andrew Spaatz
“Air control can be established by superiority in numbers, by better employment, by better equipment, or by a combination of these factors.” NumbersAirMilitaryFactorsEmploymentCombinationAviationSuperiorityEquipmentAir PowerAirpowerMilitary Aviation Author:Carl Andrew Spaatz
“The Air Force comes in every morning and says, 'Bomb, bomb, bomb' ... And then the State Department comes in and says, 'Not now, or not there, or too much, or not at all.'” StatesForceMorningToo MuchAirMilitaryBombsDepartmentAviationEvery MorningAir ForceAir PowerAirpower Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“ISIS is a formidable foe, but the counter forces to it have only just begun and if these forces, the Iraqi army, the Kurdish Peshmerga, American air power, the Syrian Free Army, work in a coordinated fashion, it will start losing ground. Also, please keep in mind that ISIS does not actually hold as much ground as the many maps flashed on television keep showing. Large parts of those territories that ISIS supposedly controls are vacant desert.” IfsMindDoeForceAirFashionTelevisionPleaseLosingArmyDesertMapsTerritoryFoeIsisFormidableVacantAir PowerKurdish Author:Fareed Zakaria
“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.” ThinkingI CanLevelsSupportAirBearsContradictionTroopsHigh LevelOur TroopsAir Power Author:Bill Vaughan
“Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms.” ForceDifficultTermAirMilitaryPreciseAir PowerMilitary Force Book:The Gathering Storm Source: The Gathering Storm
“Air power is new to all our countries. It brings advantages to some and weakens others; it calls for readjustment everywhere.” CountryAirAdvantageOur CountryAir Power Author:Charles Lindbergh
“Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible.” PastSpeakLanguageImpossibleAirTranslationsStrategicAir PowerIdiom Author:Alexander P. de Seversky
“Using overwhelming air power to utterly and completely destroy ISIS. To put things in perspective, in the first Persian Gulf War, we launched roughly 1,100 air attacks a day. We carpet bombed them for 36 days, saturation bombing, after which our troops went in and in a day and a half mopped up what was left of the Iraqi army.” FirstsWarLeftHalfAirPerspectiveArmyOverwhelmingTroopsCarpetIsisBombingPersianOur TroopsAir PowerGulf WarSaturationPersian Gulf Author:Ted Cruz
“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.” NeedsUseFightingAirKillingOverwhelmingIsisAir PowerKurds Author:Ted Cruz
“You would carpet bomb where ISIS is, not a city, but the location of the troops. You use air power directed - and you have embedded special forces to direction the air power. But the object isn't to level a city. The object is to kill the ISIS terrorists.” UseForceLevelsCitiesAirSpecialObjectsTerroristBombsTroopsLocationCarpetIsisEmbeddedAir PowerSpecial Forces Author:Ted Cruz
“We need to do whatever is necessary to utterly defeat ISIS....We're not using our overwhelming air power. We're not arming the Kurds. Those need to be the first steps. And then we need to put whatever ground power is needed to carry it out.” NeedsFirstsStepsAirNeededDefeatOverwhelmingFirst StepsIsisAir PowerKurds Author:Ted Cruz
“I think that there's an important point to make if you're running for president, which is that you tell the American people how you would handle a crisis. She [Hillary Clinton] is saying here's what I would do in terms of air power, in terms of dealing with the enemy. Donald Trump never says a word. He just says, "I've got a secret plan." He impugns the president .” PeopleIfsThinkingImportantRunningPresidentTermSecretEnemyPlansAirTrumpCrisisClintonHandleAir Power Author:Eric Bolling
“I look upon air-power for destruction as a terrible crime against humanity.” LooksHumanityAirCrimeTerribleDestructionLook UpAir PowerCrimes Against Humanity Author:Mahatma Gandhi