"We ceased to deal seriously with mobile combat. We relegated to oblivion the fundamentals of combat-in-depth tactics and of combined arms maneuvers which had been widespread before the Finnish campaign."

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Source : "Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia, 1939". Book by Alvin D. Coox, p.997, 1990.

Sergey Biryuzov

#Fundamentals Quotes #Tactics Quotes #Arms Quotes

“We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody clock.”
“There really is no vacation from the world in which we live.”
“She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague â€œsheâ€ of all the poetry books.”
“If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.”
“I would like to say, ladies and gentlemen, that you shouldn't be afraid of who you are. That's the first key idea. You shouldn't be afraid of who you are. You should NOT be afraid of who you are. It's very important for you to realize that.”
“The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them.”

Source : Twitter post from May 4, 2015
“I used to do drugs. I still do drugs. But I used to, too.”
“I got knocked down. Anybody could be knocked down, anybody can be knocked out, but it's not what happened, but what happens next.”

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