{"id":3884,"date":"2021-08-05T06:01:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T00:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/?p=3884"},"modified":"2024-12-27T16:05:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T10:35:24","slug":"dozen-interesting-military-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/2021\/08\/05\/dozen-interesting-military-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"164: Dozen Interesting Military Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\">1<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\">Know and use all the capabilities in your airplane. If you don\u2019t, sooner or later, some guy who does use them all will kick your ass.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em>Dave \u201cPreacher\u201d Pace<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em>Quoted in Robert L . Shaw, Fighter Combat<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #993300; font-size: 14pt;\">2<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #993300; font-size: 14pt;\">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, \u201cYes, we have books. But they are very thin.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #993300; font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em>Barry D. Watts and James 0. Hale<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300; font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em>Air University Review, 1984<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #003300; font-size: 14pt;\">3<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #003300; font-size: 14pt;\">It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #003300; font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em>Sir Winston Churchill<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #0000ff; font-size: 14pt;\">4<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #0000ff; font-size: 14pt;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em>Gen H. H. \u201cHap\u201d Arnold<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #800080; font-size: 14pt;\">5<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #800080; font-size: 14pt;\">War is not an affair of chance. A great deal of knowledge, study, and meditation is necessary to conduct it well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em>Frederick the Great<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #008000; font-size: 14pt;\">6<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #008000; font-size: 14pt;\">A wise man learns from his experience; a wiser man learns from the experience of others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #008000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em>Confucius<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #ff0000; font-size: 14pt;\">7<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #ff0000; font-size: 14pt;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em>Luftwaffe general Karl Koller<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #993366; font-size: 14pt;\">8<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #993366; font-size: 14pt;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #993366; font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em>Hap Arnold<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #003366; font-size: 14pt;\">9<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #003366; font-size: 14pt;\">The science of war (knowledge).<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #003366; font-size: 14pt;\">The art of war (application of knowledge).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #003366; font-size: 14pt;\">Wallace P. Franz and Harry G. Summers<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #003366; font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em>Art of War Colloquium, <\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #003366; font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em>textbook Army War College<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #800000; font-size: 14pt;\">10<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #800000; font-size: 14pt;\">Space in which to maneuver in the air, unlike fighting on land or sea, is practically unlimited.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #800000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em>Group Captain J. E \u201cJohnnie\u201d Johnson<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333300; font-size: 14pt;\">11<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333300; font-size: 14pt;\">Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #333300; font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em>Napol\u00e9on<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #993300; font-size: 14pt;\">12<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #993300; font-size: 14pt;\">Tactics are concerned with doing the job \u201cright,\u201d higher levels of strategy are concerned with doing the \u201cright\u201d job.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #993300; font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em>Dennis M. 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Shaw, Fighter Combat &nbsp; 2 As one veteran Israeli pilot said after the June 1982 air campaign over Lebanon &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/2021\/08\/05\/dozen-interesting-military-quotes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;164: Dozen Interesting Military Quotes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,26,15,115],"tags":[6,47,42,51,43,58,52,60],"class_list":["post-3884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airpower","category-best-military-quotes","category-leadership","category-war-and-warfare","tag-airpower","tag-defence-services","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-flying","tag-leadership","tag-quotes","tag-strategic-thinking","tag-warfare"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3884"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8656,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884\/revisions\/8656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}