The KGB still killed people, the KGB would not execute its last prisoner until the final days of its existence in 1991, but by the eighties a termination required paperwork and signatures and a post-action review.

And so began something that had not quite begun and would not soon end, with many people in many places moving off in directions and on missions which they all mistakenly thought they understood. That was just as well. The future was too fearful for contemplation, and beyond the expected, illusory finish lines were things fated by the decisions made this morning -- and, once decided, best unseen.

The tactics...no, amateurs discuss tactics,.... Professional soldiers study logistics.

I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

Victory comes only to those prepared to make it, and take it.

Most things in here don't react well to bullets.

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.