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In future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages detailed above, and thus be forced, throughout the battle, into adopting compromise solutions.
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, German Army
From the Rommel Papers and Krieg ohne Hass, quoted in 2002 book On War and Leadership: The Words of Combat Commanders from Frederick the Great to Norman Schwarzkopf.
Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success … The fact of British air superiority threw to the winds all the tactical rules which we had hitherto applied with such success. In every battle to come, the strength of the AngloAmerican air force was to be the deciding factor.
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
German Army, writing in 1942, published in the 1953 book The Rommel Papers.
The enemy’s air superiority has a very grave effect on our movements … There’s simply no answer to it.
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, German Army
General Inspector of the Western Defences, letter to his wife Lucie after D-Day, 10 June 1944. The situation was made personal on 17 July 1944, while Rommel was returning from visiting the headquarters of I SS Panzer Corps a RAF Spitfre strafed his staff car near Sainte-Foy-de-Montgommery, France, causing major head injuries.
Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Rommel Papers, 1953.
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