The commander must decide how he will fight the battle before it begins. He must then decide who he will use the military effort at his disposal to force the battle to swing the way he wishes it to go; he must make the enemy dance to his tune from the beginning and not vice versa.

Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset - its flexibility.

Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.

The harder the fighting and the longer the war, the more the infantry, and in fact all the arms, lean on the gunners.

If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and lose it quickly.

Let no man surrender so long as he is unwounded and can fight.

The first duty of a leader is opti­mism. How does your sub­or­di­nate feel after meet­ing with you? Does he feel uplifted? If not, you are not a leader.