Giulio Douhet Quotes

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.

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.

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

The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe.

The development of air power in its broadest sense, and including the development of all means of combating missiles that travel through the air, whether fired or dropped, is the first essential to our survival in war.

Military history shows air action only cannot achieve the goal of defeating an enemy.

Тhe battlefield in the air will be the decisive one

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.

The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormously destructive and entirely indecisive.

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

Nothing can stop the attack of aircraft except other aircraft.

We will fight evil, but we will do it from above 15,000 feet.

With us air people, the future of our nation is indissolubly bound up in the development of air power.

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.

If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.

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.

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

Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.

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.

Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies.

In the long run sea power will be no match for air power.

We cannot fight air strikes with explosives.

The day may not be far off when aerial operations with their devastation of enemy lands and destruction of industrial and populous centers on a vast scale may become the principle operation of the war, to which the older forms of military and naval operations may become secondary and subordinate.

There are two ways to fight the United States military: asymmetrically and stupid. Asymmetrically means you're going to try to avoid our strengths. In the 1991 Gulf War, it's like we called Saddam's army out into the schoolyard and beat up that army.