Tom Catena Quotes

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

The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.

We possess the most powerful air weapons in the Middle East. Our bombers, armed with missiles, our modern fighters—are capable of destroying Israel’s airfields and planes. We have no fear…

Three Royal Air Force aeroplanes have come over to us so far with their arms and equipment.

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.

Carey wants proper air cover in case of war with Vermont.

Aviation constituted a new and possibly decisive element in preventing or fighting a war, and I was in a unique position to observe European aviation - especially in its military aspects.

Afghanistan does have an air force: It has two C-130s. I saw one of them. It was nice, a gift from the United States. But two planes don't even make a Caribbean charter airline, let alone an air force for a country at war.

Nothing can stop the attack of aircraft except other aircraft.

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

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

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.

The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't.

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.

So long as large armies go to battle, so long will the air arm remain their spearhead.

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

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.

From the day war conquered the skies, nothing could check its progress.

I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground.

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

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.

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.

To conquer the command of the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat and acceptance of whatever terms the enemy may be pleased to impose.

We cannot fight air strikes with explosives.