Air Dominance Quotes

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

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

The finger that turns the dial rules the air.

Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.

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.

Unwittingly then had I discovered an Invisible Empire of the Air, intangible, yet solid as granite, whose structure shall persist while man inhabits the planet.

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

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

Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms.

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.

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

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.

I was with a Navy F-18 squadron, and I know a single squadron could finish off the entire Sudanese air force in a day.

To conquer the command in the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat.