If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.
When you go to war, both sides lose totally.
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
With us air people, the future of our nation is indissolubly bound up in the development of air power.
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
As in the war of 1941-45, our victory and our survival depend on how and where we attack.
As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.
Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
We didn't lose Vietnam. We quit Vietnam.
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.