“To commit troops to a campaign in which they cannot be provided with adequate air support is to court disaster.”

-Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck, 1940

“There are only two kinds of people that understand Marines: Marines and the enemy. Everyone else has a second-hand opinion.”

–Gen. William Thornson, U.S. Army

“Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.”

― Virgil

“We worried for decades about WMDs – Weapons of Mass Destruction. Now it is time to worry about a new kind of WMDs – Weapons of Mass Disruption.”

-John Mariotti, author of ‘The Chinese Conspiracy’

“We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and three Army regiments pinned down in the southwestern corner, doing nothing. What the hell is going on?”

– Gen. John Vessey Jr, 1983, during the invasion of Grenada.

“The heavens are their battlefield. They are the Cavalry of the Clouds. High above the squalor and the mud, so high in the firmament that they are not visible from earth, they fight out the eternal issues of right and wrong. They are struggling there by day, yea and by night in that titanic conflict between the great foes of light and of darkness. They fight the foe high up and they fight low down. They skim like armed swallows along the front, taking in their flights men armed with rifle and machine gun. They scatter infantry on the march, they destroy convoys, the scatter dismay. Every flight is romance, every record is an epic. They are the knight errants of this war, without fear and without reproach. They recall the old legends of chivalry, not merely by the daring of individual exploits, but by the nobility of their spirit and amongst the multitudes of heroes, we must continuously thank the cavalry of the air”

-David Lloyd George