Airpower Quotes

Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.

It is my desire that the airplane be produced in quantity so that it can be used in this war—not the next.

The last person to achieve unambiguous victory in an air war was Zeus.

Unmanned ariel vehicles have existed since the early days of airpower. The first was developed but not used in World War I for target practice. But it was the Israeli engineer Abraham who had been working on drones to confuse Arab air defenses in the 1970s, who realized that with new technologies drones could provide real time intelligence.

After World War I, while France and other Allies were building military defenses modeled on trench warfare, German commanders were shaping a nimble fighting force.

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.

Give me fifty DC-3's and the Japanese can have the Burma Road.

Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.

It would be unwise to assume that we can defeat Germany by simply outproducing her. One hundred thousand airplanes would be of little value to us if these airplanes could not be used because of lack of trained personnel, lack of operating airdromes in the theater, and lack of shipping to maintain the air squadrons in the theater .... Wars are won on sound strategy implemented by well-trained forces which are adequately and effectively equipped.

In the 19th century, there were only [the] Army and Navy. In the 20th century, we got airpower as the third dimension of war. In the 21st century, cyber will be the fourth dimension of war. It's another kind of weapon and it is for unlimited range and is very high speed, and, in a very low signature.