Air Supremacy Quotes

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

As the journalists of the time phased it, this was the epoch of the Leap into the Air. The new atomic aeroplane became indeed a mania; everyone of means was frantic to possess a thing so controllable, so secure and so free from the dust and danger of the road, and in France in the year 1943 thirty thousand of these new aeroplanes were manufactured and licensed, and soared humming softly into the sky.

Air superiority is the ultimate expression of military power.

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

What happened in Kosovo was the exact reversal of what happened in 'Fortress Europe' in 1943-45. Let me explain. Air Marshall 'Bomber' Harris used to say that 'Fortress Europe' was a fortress without a roof, since the Allies had air supremacy. Now, if we look at the Kosovo War, what do we see? We see a fortress without walls  but with a roof! Isn't that disappearance extraordinary?!

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

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

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.

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.

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