Category: Best Military Quotes

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105: Technology & Warfare Quotes: Lessons

1

Victory smiles upon those who anticipate the changes in the character of war, not upon those who wait to adapt themselves after the changes occur.

 

– Giulio Douhet

 

Change before the warfare changes or rather – 

BE THE CHANGE

 

2

It may be said that warfare has acquired a new phase – technological war. In the past, research and development were only preparation for the final and decisive testing of new systems in battle. Today the kind and quality of systems which a nation develops can decide the battle in advance and make the final conflict a mere formality or can bypass conflict altogether.

 

– Gen Bernard Schriever

 

Harness future technology for military use –

NOW

 

3

New conditions require, new solutions new weapons and imaginative methods for maximum application. New Wars are never won in the past.

 

– Douglas MacArthur

 

IDEATE, IDEATE and IDEATE – preferably

OUT OF THE BOX

 

4

An air force is always verging on obsolescence and, in time of peace, its size and replacement rate will always be inadequate to meet the full demands of war. Military air power should, therefore, be measured to a large extent by the ability of the existing air force to absorb in time of emergency the increased requirements of the war together with new ideas and techniques.

 

– Hap Arnold

 

Have a plan A &  have a plan B – More  important

HAVE A OPEN MIND FOR PLAN C

 

5

In military systems, the second step in the development of a radically new concept must be determined after operational deployment. The war fighters will use the system in innovative ways not described in the manuals, and it is this experience that will define the path to revolution.

 

– USAF Scientific Advisory Board

 

Fastest Way to operationalize a weapon or system is – 

Operational Deployment in LIVE EXERCISE

 

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99: Life Saving Aviation Quotes

There are old pilots and bold pilots, but no old, bold pilots.

 

Use your superior judgment to avoid those situations where you might have to use your superior skills.

 

No matter what happens, fly the airplane – Aviate, Navigate, Communicate.

 

Emergency landings are done to save lives, not airplanes.

 

The three most useless things in aviation are runway behind you, altitude above you, and fuel not in your tanks.

 

When in doubt, hold your altitude.

 

Fuel is liquid altitude. The only time you have too much is when you’re on fire.

 

Never let an airplane take you somewhere your mind didn’t get to five minutes earlier.

 

It’s better to be on the ground wishing you were the air, than in the air wishing you were on the ground.

 

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96: Air Power Quotes

1

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

– Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery

 

2

Air power is like poker. A second-best hand is like none at all—it will cost you dough and win you nothing .

– Gen George Kenney

 

3

Because of its independence of surface limitations and its superior speed the airplane is  the offensive weapon par excellence .

 – Giulio Douhet

 

4

The air ocean and its endless outer space extension are one and indivisible, and should be controlled by a single homogeneous force .

– Alexander P . de Seversky

 

5

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

 – Field Marshal Montgomery

 

6

After all, the great defence against aerial menace is to attack the enemy’s aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure .

– Winston Churchill

 

7

Airpower has become predominant, both as a deterrent to war, and—in the eventuality of war—as the devastating force to destroy an enemy’s potential and fatally undermine his will to wage war .

– Gen Omar Bradley

 

8

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

– J . F . C . Fuller

 

9

The other services have air arms—magnificent air arms—but their air arms must fit within their services, each with a fundamentally different focus So those air arms, when in competition with the primary focus of their services, will often end up on the short end, where the priorities for resources may lead to shortfalls or decisions that are suboptimum . It is therefore important to understand that the core competencies of air and space power are optional for the other services . They can elect to play or not play in that arena . But if the nation is to remain capable and competent in air and space, someone must pay attention across the whole spectrum; that is why there is a Air Force .

– Gen Ronald R . Fogleman, USAF, retired, 1997

 

10

The very flexibility of air forces makes true cooperation essential . Air forces, at short notice, can be switched from one sort of target to another and, within limits, from one type of operation to a quite different type . There is, therefore, a constant temptation to use them piecemeal to meet an immediate requirement, rather than to use them on a long-term joint plan .

– J . C . Slessor

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