Source: Dado Center Journal vol. 6, January 2016, https://www.idf.il/media/11156/ortal.pdf
“The development of air power in its broadest sense, and including the development of all means of combating missiles that travel through the air, whether fired or dropped, is the first essential to our survival in war.”
Given by Trenchard in 1946. As listed on Skygod.com - Great Aviation Quotes http://www.skygod.com/quotes/airpower.html
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Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard 2
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