As the aeroplane is the most mobile weapon we possess, it is destined to become the dominant offensive arm of the future.

The strongest army in the world [the French] facing no more than twenty-six [German] divisions, sitting still and sheltering behind steel and concrete while a quixotically valiant ally was being exterminated!

Adherence to dogmas has destroyed more armies and cost more battles than anything in war.

As the aeroplane is the most mobile weapon we possess, it is destined to become the dominant offensive arm of the future.

Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.

Discipline is no longer literal obedience but intelligent obedience, for discipline aims at obedience coupled with activity of will. Once discipline weakens and vanishes, as it does towards the latter stages of the fire fight, and the crowd instinct possesses the soldier, then will he, if training has formed those necessary mental reflexes, surrender himself to the will of his leader; this is where leadership supplants discipline without destroying it.

In the World War [WW1] nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.