Osama bin Laden Quotes

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

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.

Unrivaled hegemonic power has not kept the United States safe from terrorist attack; nor has often brutal retaliation deterred suicide attacks in Russia or Israel.

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

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

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

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.

With an insurgency, people are the prize. We can win every battle and still lose the war.

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

Fighting terrorists does not require half a trillion dollars worth of conventional and nuclear forces.

Тhe battlefield in the air will be the decisive one

Terrorism is resorted to for practical reasons because there is no other tool available. And those who use terrorism, and then subsequently become the targets of terrorism, understand its power and how difficult it is to counter it. Not just militarily. But especially in terms of international perception.

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.

The British were keen for 30 caliber guns, did not believe in daylight bombing. American experts said 30 caliber was not enough; we had to have 50 caliber, also said daylight bombing was right provided the planes attacked in formation, with 50 caliber guns.

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

Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.

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

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.

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.

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.

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