There can be no acceptable future without an honest analysis of the past.

There is no point asserting and reasserting what the heart cannot believe.

In military science there is a principle more important than "Forward": it is that the task should be proportionate to the means.

As for Europe, its claims towards Russia are fairly transparently based on fears about energy, unjustified fears at that.

The most intense patriotism always flourishes in the rear.

I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state.

A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to ribbons or cripple a man for life: it needed only a quarter of an hour.