The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly.
If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.
Once you start a war, you have to win.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
To conquer the command of the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat and acceptance of whatever terms the enemy may be pleased to impose.
Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.
For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.
Never go to war unless your willing to win.
When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.
I've been to war, and I know the consequences and sacrifice it takes. If we must fight, we fight to win.
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