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

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

The governments of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power and grasp. It was, I venture to suggest, this semi-occult power which....pushed the mass of the American people into the cauldron of World War I.

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

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

Jackson possessed the brutality essential in war; Lee did not. He could clasp the hand of a wounded enemy, whilst Jackson ground his teeth and murmured, 'No quarter to the violators of our homes and firesides', and when someone deplored the necessity of destroying so many brave men, he exclaimed: 'No, shoot them all, I do not wish them to be brave.'

To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does; but because, simultaneously, it does vast damage to our peace aim, unless that aim is mutual economic and social annihilation.