Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value. - Ferdinand Foch

One does simply what one can in order to apply what one knows.

What you did was the greatest thing accomplished by any private soldier of all of the armies of Europe.

There you have a country against which the Allies must take well-defined precautions. It is possible that its republican form of government will profoundly modify the German mentality. I devoutly hope so, but we cannot be sure. A well-organized, militarized Republic, however, might be as great a menace to its neighbours as the old Empire—although as yet we have no proof that the Republic can establish itself firmly in Germany.