It is though a bow-and-arrow army, having been routed by gunpowder, sought to win back lost ground by throwing in yet more bows and arrows.

(Seversky's criticism of the post-Pearl Harbor plan to use U.S. airpower in the Pacific only to "assist surface operations" instead of for strategic bombing.) Later mentioned by President Eisenhower; indirect speech quoted by Brigadier General Andrew J. Goodpaster, "Memorandum of Conference with the President – Augusta" (November 18, 1959), White House Office, Records of...Andrew J. Goodpaster...1952–1961, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, p. 8, declassified January 18, 1981 | The President said he thought we were talking about bows and arrows at a time of gunpowder when we spoke of bombers [like the B-70] in the missile age.