The most effective indirect approach is one that lures or startles the opponent into a false move - so that, as in ju-jitsu, his own effort is turned into the lever of his overthrow.

If you wish for peace, understand war.

The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.

The higher level of grand strategy [is] that of conducting war with a far-sighted regard to the state of the peace that will follow.

Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy's economic and moral centres without having first to achieve 'the destruction of the enemy's main forces on the battlefield'. Air-power might attain a direct end by indirect means - hopping over opposition instead of overthrowing it.

As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.

Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological factors in war.