His inquisitive mind and his dedication to the interest of the nation made him seek to understand the effect of air power on war. In the end, he learned that airpower was more than flying, more than men, more than materiel. Men and machines and concepts are fused into an entity. Its temper must be free from timidity and enslavement to vitiating preconceptions. Looking toward the future, Anderson offered one last word of guidance.
Comprehension is the key to sound solution.
Experience can only serve as a check on the validity of solutions previously reached. But experience, if it be not slanted in its lesson values, can expand man's comprehension and it is in this that experience gives its profit.