Quotes from J. F. C. Fuller

Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.

It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells, bombs, etc., would be supreme. Yet it is also absolutely true that other things are never equal and can never be equal.

In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.

Adherence to dogmas has destroyed more armies and cost more battles than anything in war.

What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new economy. The causes of the war were: envy, greed, and fear.

National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.

As the aeroplane is the most mobile weapon we possess, it is destined to become the dominant offensive arm of the future.