Charles Horner

“The key to air power is centralized control and decentralized execution.”

“The first five days of the war will win it.”

“We don’t want a fair fight. We want an unfair fight in our favor.”

“My job is to give the president options. My job is not to make the decision.”

“The B-2 is a great airplane, but it's not a silver bullet. There are no silver bullets.”

“Air power is the most difficult of all forms of military force to measure.”

“We were not targeting civilians. We were targeting the ability of Saddam Hussein to make war.”

“You must never, ever, give up the high ground of moral authority.”

“The first night of the war was the most difficult for me personally... We were going to go out there and possibly lose a lot of people.”

“You can't just send air power in to solve every problem.”

“The American people have a right to know what we're doing and why we're doing it.”