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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Interesting quote from Marshal Koniev
I am reading (and enjoying) Robin Cross's book "The Battle of Kursk" and he includes an interesting quote. "It is very likely that it was teh only occasion in Military History when the stronger side, having the capability for offensive action, went over to the defense. The future course of events affirmed that, in the given instance, the correct decision was made". Pretty ingenious if you ask me. Let the other side exhaust themselves and then just as they are faltering, throw your own forces against them!
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Yes, Marshal V.D.Sokolovsky's wrote in "Military Strategy: Soviet Doctrine and Concepts" that: Quote:
__________________ Herodotus on the Persians: "It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk; and then on the morrow, when they are sober, the decision to which they came the night before is put before them by the master of the house in which it was made; and if it is then approved of, they act on it; if not, they set it aside. Sometimes, however, they are sober at their first deliberation, but in this case they always reconsider the matter under the influence of wine." | |
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