Erich Raeder (1876–1960) German naval officer and Großadmiral during World War II
Quoted in Peter Charles Smith, The Great Ships Pass: British Battleships at War (1977).
“If we are to project our power against the vital areas of any enemy across the ocean before beachheads on enemy territory are captured, it must be by air-sea power; by aircraft launched from carriers; and by heavy surface ships and submarines projecting guided missiles and rockets. If present promise is developed by research, test and production, these three types of air-sea power operating in concert will be able within the next ten years critically to damage enemy vital areas many hundreds of miles inland.
Naval task forces including these types are capable of remaining at sea for months. This capability has raised to a high point the art of concentrating air power within effective range of enemy objectives.”
Employment of Naval Forces (1948)
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Sylvia Earle (1935) American oceanographer
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James F. Amos (1946) 35th Commandant of the Marine Corps
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Chester W. Nimitz (1885–1966) United States Navy fleet admiral
Employment of Naval Forces (1948)
Context: Our present undisputed control of the sea was achieved primarily through the employment of naval air-sea forces in the destruction of Japanese and German sea power. It was consolidated by the subsequent reduction of these nations to their present impotence, in which the employment of naval air-sea forces against land objectives played a vital role. It can be perpetuated only through the maintenance of balanced naval forces of all categories adequate to our strategic needs (which include those of the non-totalitarian world), and which can flexibly adjust to new modes of air-sea warfare and which are alert to develop and employ new weapons and techniques as needed.
Karl Dönitz (1891–1980) President of Germany; admiral in command of German submarine forces during World War II
1943, quoted in "World War II Almanac, 1931-1945: A Political and Military Record" - Page 293 by Robert Goralski - History - 1981.
“And giving men power to steer their path across the sea with heaven as their guide.”
Et dedit aequoreos caelo duce tendere cursus.
Gaius Valerius Flaccus book Argonautica
Source: Argonautica, Book I, Line 483
Yoshijirō Umezu (1882–1949) Japanese general
Quoted in "The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire" - by John Toland - History - 2003.
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1520–1598) English statesman
Memorandum of February, 1588.
Conyers Read, Lord Burghley and Queen Elizabeth (London: Jonathan Cape, 1960), pp. 418-9.
Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard (1873–1956) Royal Flying Corps commander and first Royal Air Force Chief of the Air Staff
Given by Trenchard in 1946. As listed on Skygod.com - Great Aviation Quotes http://www.skygod.com/quotes/airpower.html
