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Apr 9, 2024 · Carl Spaatz was the leading U.S. combat air commander in World War II and the first chief of staff of the independent U.S. Air Force. A graduate (1914) of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, Spaatz served as a combat pilot during World War I and then acquired extensive staff.
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History shows that army campaigns in undeveloped countries have often involved waging war against natural obstacles, rather than against a foe. -- Air Marshal E.J. Kingston-McCloughry
Our warfighting concept has to take account of the fact that almost nothing ever works right. As with the game of golf, our only real hope is to make smaller mistakes. -- Gen Merrill McPeak Wars are not fought on drawing boards, nor are victories to be measured in pints. War is every whit as much a game of chance as a game of calculation: it is p...
Whilst the nineteenth-century idea of warfare was founded on the principle of the concentration of force, because of air power the principle which will control the twentieth-century idea will be that of distribution of force, which is a sound strategical principle when the forces distributed possess so high a mobility that they can rapidly be conce...
-- J.F.C. Fuller (The Army in My Time, 207) Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities..because it is the quality which guarantees all others -- Sir Winston Churchill Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. -- Captain Edward V. ‘Eddie’ Rickenbacker Leading American Ace of WWI It isn’t just my brother’s country, or my husband’s c...
Every pioneer is somewhat of a martyr, and every martyr somewhat of a firebrand who kills with ridicule as well as with reason. -- J.F.C. Fuller (Foundations of the Science of War, ) Innovation is the bridge between doctrine and war. -- Maj William A. Andrews, USAF
A good inter-Service staff officer must first be a good officer of his own Service, and we should lose more than we gained by merging the identity of the three Staff Colleges.
It takes close cooperation with the Army to obtain the maximum misuse of air power. -- Gen Carl Spaatz It is dangerous to meddle with Admirals when they say they can’t do things. They have always got the weather or fuel or something to argue about. -- Winston Churchill\\
A general’s dispatch should have more honesty than a politician’s electioneering pamphlets. -- B.H. Liddell Hart (Thoughts on War, 149) For whoever habitually suppresses truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought. -- B.H. Liddell Hart (How to Win Wars, 6) Integrity; A man’s word is his bond. -- General Jim...
Saving the lives of your fellow airmen is the most extraordinary kind of heroism that I know. -- General Curtis E. LeMay When I think of the enlisted force I see dedication, determination, loyalty and valor . -- Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Paul W. Airey First Chief Master Sergeant of the United States Air Force As I prepare for this l...
Self-interest as well as humane reasons demand that warring nations should endeavour to gain their end--the moral subjugation of the enemy--with the infliction of the least possible permanent injury to life and industry. For the enemy of to-day is the customer of tomorrow, and often the ally of the future. -- B.H. Liddell Hart (Thoughts on War, 42...
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Feb 7, 2006 · General Carl A. "Tooey" Spaatz. 1st Chief of Staff U.S. Air Force. Air University, February 7, 2008. “In a conversation about the war a few weeks ago, I was asked, ‘Where are the heroes?’. In prior wars, everyone knew the heroes.
Dec 1, 2000 · Carl A. Spaatz, born in Boyertown, Pa., on June 28, 1891, became the first Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force in September 1947. For two years after the end of World War II, he had led the fight to separate the Army Air Forces from the Army and thereby create an independent air service.
General Carl A. Spaatz was the first chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C. The general was born in 1891, in Boyertown, Pa. In 1910, he was appointed to the U.S. Military Academy.
