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.

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.

[The] aim is not so much to seek battle as to seek a strategic situation so advantageous that if it does not of itself produce the decision, its continuation by a battle is sure to achieve this. In other words, dislocation is the aim of strategy.

The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.

For the spread and endurance of an idea the originator is dependent on the self-development of the receivers and transmitters.

The urge to gain release from tension by action is a precipitating cause of war.

Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.