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The first and absolute requirement of strategic air power in this war was control of the air in order to carry out sustained operations without prohibitive losses.
Another war, however distant in the future, would probably be decided by some form of air power before the surface forces were able to make contact with the enemy in major battles. This is the supreme military lesson of our period in history.
General Carl 'Tooey' Spaatz, USAF Chief of Staff
Strategic Air Power: Fulfillment of a Concept. Foreign Affairs quarterly, Vol 24 Number 3, April 1946.
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In our victory over Japan, airpower was unquestionably decisive. That the planned invasion of the Japanese Home islands was unnecessary is clear evidence that airpower has evolved into a force in war co-equal with land and sea power, decisive in its own right and worthy of the faith of its prophets.
General Carl 'Tooey' Spaatz, USAF
Evolution of Air Power, Military Review, 1947.
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