Military Airpower: A Revised Digest of Air Power Opinions and Thoughts

Westenhoff has compiled a thought-provoking collection of ideas from an array of luminaries-including contemporary & legendary generals, innovative tacticians & strategists, world leaders, & philosophers. Quotations were chosen for their value to Airmen & the profession of arms. The book's aim is to supply Airmen w/useful thoughts that might help them meet their known responsibilities and unknown challenges. Gen T. Michael Moseley, chief of staff, USAF, notes that "understanding the way that our predecessors handled their challenges can equip us to better serve our nation." The most capable Airmen are judicious in finding the best material to put into their "clue bags." The materials in this book are offered as candidates for the Airman's clue bag. Some of the quotations were selected for their irony, humor, or incendiary effect. I'm confident that readers will know good sense from nonsense.This book contains many "old, dead guy" quotations for several reasons. First, they're good. No one has improved on Sun Tzu in 2,500 years. Second, time has graded their work and put them at the head of the class. Third, they wrote clearly.Alexander Graham Bell * Benjamin Franklin * Brig. General Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager * Carl von Clausewitz * Colin Powell * Douglas MacArthur * Dwight D. Eisenhower * General Bernard "Bernie" Schriever * General Charles A. "Chuck" Horner * General Curtis E. LeMay * General Norman Schwarzkopf * General Wesley K. Clark * George Washington * H. G. Wells * Hap Arnold * Henry Kissinger * Hoyt S. Vandenberg * John Foster Dulles * Lyndon B. Johnson * Mao Tse-tung * Napoleon * Saddam Hussein * Donald Rumsfeld * Sun Tzu * Thomas Aquinas * Winston Churchill