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“Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side which first employs air power as it should be employed. Germany, entangled in the meshes of vast land campaigns, cannot now disengage her air power for a strategically proper application. She missed victory through air power by a hair's breadth in 1940. . . . We ourselves are now at the crossroads.”

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Author:Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

“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.”

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Author:Alexander P. de Seversky

“The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to gain overwhelming mastery in the Air. The Fighters are our salvation . . . but the Bombers alone provide the means of victory. . . . In no other way at present visible can we hope to overcome the immense military power of Germany.”

“The best defence of the country is the fear of the fighter. If we are strong in fighters we should probably never be attacked in force. If we are moderately strong we shall probably be attacked and the attacks will gradually be bought to a standstill. . . . If we are weak in fighter strength, the attacks will not be bought to a standstill and the productive capacity of the country will be virtually destroyed.”

Ifs Should Country Strong Force Capacity Weak Destroyed Fighter Productive Aviation Defence Air Power Airpower Standstill

Author:Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

“And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?”

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Book:The Papers of Benjamin Franklin: Volume 41: September 16, 1783, through February 29, 1784

Source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin: Volume 41: September 16, 1783, through February 29, 1784

“The military mind always imagines that the next war will be on the same lines as the last. That has never been the case and never will be. One of the great factors on the next war will be aircraft obviously. The potentialities of aircraft attack on a large scale are almost incalculable.”

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Author:Ferdinand Foch

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

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Author:Bernard Law Montgomery

“How could they possibly be Japanese planes?”

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Author:Husband E. Kimmel

“Believe me, Germany is unable to wage war.”

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Author:David Lloyd George

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

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Book:Command Of The Air

Source: Command Of The Air

“I have a mathematical certainty that the future will confirm my assertion that aerial warfare will be the most important element in future wars, and that in consequence not only will the importance of the Independent Air Force rapidly increase, but the importance of the army and navy will decrease in proportion.”

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Book:Command Of The Air

Source: Command Of The Air

“During the Battle of Britain the question "fighter or fighter-bomber?" had been decided once and for all: The fighter can only be used as a bomb carrier with lasting effect when sufficient air superiority has been won.”

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Book:The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945

Source: The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945

“That idea is so damned nonsensical and impossible that I'm willing to stand on the bridge of a battleship while that nitwit tries to hit if from the air.”

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Author:Newton D. Baker

“The sky over London was glorious, ochre and madder, as though a dozen tropic suns were simultaneously setting round the horizon . . . Everywhere the shells sparkled like Christmas baubles.”

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Book:The Sword of Honour Trilogy

Source: The Sword of Honour Trilogy

“From now on we shall bomb Germany on an ever-increasing scale, month by month, year by year, until the Nazi regime has either been exterminated by us or - better still - torn to pieces by the German people themselves.”

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Author:Winston Churchill

“I am purely evil; Hear the thrum of my evil engine; Evilly I come. The stars are thick as flowers In the meadows of July; A fine night for murder Winging through the sky.”

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Author:Ethel Mannin

“If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and lose it quickly.”

Ifs War Loses Air Aviation Air Power Airpower

Author:Bernard Law Montgomery

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

Ifs Should War Aviation Rockets Air Power Airpower

Author:Adolf Hitler

“The best way to defend the bombers is to catch the enemy before it his in position to attack. Catch them when they are taking off, or when they are climbing, or when they are forming up. Don't think you can defend the bomber by circling around him. It's good for the bombers morale, and bad for tactics.”

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Author:Robin Olds

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

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Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“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.”

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Author:Adolf Galland

“In order to assure an adequate national defense, it is necessary - and sufficient - to be in a position in case of war to conquer the command of the air.”

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Book:Command Of The Air

Source: Command Of The Air

“A modern state is such a complex and interdependent fabric that it offers a target highly sensitive to a sudden and overwhelming blow from the air.”

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Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“The conviction of the justification of using even the most brutal weapons is always dependent on the presence of a fanatical belief in the necessity of the victory of a revolutionary new order on this globe.”

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Book:Mein Kampf: complete and unabridged, fully annotated

Source: Mein Kampf: complete and unabridged, fully annotated

“Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.”

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Author:J. F. C. Fuller

“To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does; but because, simultaneously, it does vast damage to our peace aim, unless that aim is mutual economic and social annihilation.”

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Author:J. F. C. Fuller

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

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Author:J. F. C. Fuller

“Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications a share of his straitened resources far greater that what we need in the attack.”

Needs Action Enemy Greater Air Share Military Communication Resources Bases Defense Aviation Air Power Military Power Airpower Military Action

Author:Winston Churchill

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

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Author:Erich Hartmann

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

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Book:The First and the Last: The Rise and Fall of the German Fighter Forces, 1938-1954

Source: The First and the Last: The Rise and Fall of the German Fighter Forces, 1938-1954

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

Ifs Should Fighting Should Have Prepared Necks Aviation Be Prepared Air Power Airpower

Author:Jimmy Doolittle

“To use a fighter as a fighter-bomber when the strength of the fighter arm is inadequate to achieve air superiority is putting the cart before the horse.”

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Book:The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945

Source: The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945

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

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Book:The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945

Source: The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945

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

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Author:Calvin Coolidge

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

Courses Nations Crime Aviation Civilized Air Power Airpower Civilized Nations

Author:Jeane Kirkpatrick

“The country will some day pay for the stupidities of those who were in the majority on this commission. They know as much about the future of aviation as they do about the sign writing of the Aztecs.”

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Author:Jimmy Doolittle

“This strongly asserted but ill-defined license to kill without accountability is not an entitlement which the United States or other states can have without doing grave damage to the rules designed to protect the right to life and prevent extrajudicial executions.”

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Author:Philip Alston

“Aviation is going to control the world economically and militarily whether we like it or not. Airpower is not merely military aviation, it is also civilian aviation and airpower is peace power.”

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Author:Roscoe Turner

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