With resistance shattered, and with Turkish communications knocked out by an airstrike on the telephone exchange at Nabulus, Turkish forces fell back in confusion. Damascus surrendered by the end of the month and the Ottoman Empire a few weeks later. If their initial development experienced a check when hostilities came to an end in 1918, they had already shown their potential clear enough to those who were on the receiving end. Gen. Heinz Guderian, comment in 1937. The air force has become the hammer of modern warfare on land.
Modern battle is the fight for cubic space.
We had learned one important lesson during this operation, a lesson which was to affect all subsequent planning and, in fact, our entire future conduct of the war. 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. If I didn't have air supremacy, I wouldn't be here. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme allied commander, in comments made while surveying buildup area at the Normandy bridgehead after Operation Overlord, late June 1944.