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Last updated on November 9, 2024.
Henry Harley Arnold was an American general officer holding the ranks of General of the Army and later, General of the Air Force. Arnold was an aviation pioneer, Chief of the Air Corps (1938–1941), commanding general of the United States Army Air Forces, the only United States Air Force general to hold five-star rank, and the only officer to hold a five-star rank in two different U.S. military services. Arnold was also the founder of Project RAND, which evolved into one of the world's largest non-profit global policy think tanks, the RAND Corporation, and one of the founders of Pan American World Airways.
The technical genius which could find answers was not cooped up in military or civilian bureaucracy, but was to be found in universities and in the people at large.
Your limits are somewhere up there, waiting for you to reach beyond infinity.
It's got to be done and done quickly, so let's get it done.
Offense is the essence of air power.
The Japanese position was hopeless even before the first atomic bomb fell because the Japanese had lost control of their own air.
A modern, autonomous, and thoroughly trained Air Force in being at all times will not alone be sufficient, but without it there can be no national security.
Strategic air assault is wasted if it is dissipated piecemeal in sporadic attacks between which the enemy has an opportunity to readjust defenses or recuperate.