Dozen Interesting Military Quotes

 

1
Know and use all the capabilities in your airplane. If you don’t, sooner or later, some guy who does use them all will kick your ass.

Dave “Preacher” Pace
Quoted in Robert L . Shaw, Fighter Combat

 

2
As one veteran Israeli pilot said after the June 1982 air campaign over Lebanon in response to American questions about how much doctrine the Israeli Air Force had written down, “Yes, we have books. But they are very thin.”

Barry D. Watts and James 0. Hale
Air University Review, 1984

 

3
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Sir Winston Churchill

 

4
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.

Gen H. H. “Hap” Arnold

 

5
War is not an affair of chance. A great deal of knowledge, study, and meditation is necessary to conduct it well.

Frederick the Great

 

6
A wise man learns from his experience; a wiser man learns from the experience of others.

Confucius

 

7
Every soldier generally thinks only as far as the radius of action of his branch of the service and only as quickly as he can move with his weapons.

Luftwaffe general Karl Koller

 

8
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.

Hap Arnold

 

9
The science of war (knowledge).
The art of war (application of knowledge).

Wallace P. Franz and Harry G. Summers

Art of War Colloquium, textbook Army War College

 

10
Space in which to maneuver in the air, unlike fighting on land or sea, is practically unlimited.

Group Captain J. E “Johnnie” Johnson

 

11
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoléon

12
Tactics are concerned with doing the job “right,” higher levels of strategy are concerned with doing the “right” job.

Dennis M. Drew and Donald M. Snow

 

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