The Japanese position was hopeless even before the first atomic bomb fell because the Japanese had lost control of their own air.

Your limits are somewhere up there, waiting for you to reach beyond infinity.

Offense is the essence of air power.

The Japanese position was hopeless even before the first atomic bomb fell because the Japanese had lost control of their own air.

The technical genius which could find answers was not cooped up in military or civilian bureaucracy, but was to be found in universities and in the people at large.

Strategic air assault is wasted if it is dissipated piecemeal in sporadic attacks between which the enemy has an opportunity to readjust defenses or recuperate.

A modern, autonomous, and thoroughly trained Air Force in being at all times will not alone be sufficient, but without it there can be no national security.