Sergey Biryuzov quotes

“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.”
-- Sergey Biryuzov

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

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“The problem of destroying enemy rockets in flight has been successfully solved in our country.”
-- Sergey Biryuzov

Source : "Military Deception and Strategic Surprise". Book by John Gooch, Amos Perlmutter, 1982.

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“Soviet rocket troops possess enough equipment to be able, if need be, to sweep any aggressor from the face of the earth at whatever point of the globe he may be and whatever military power, territory, or economy he may possess.”
-- Sergey Biryuzov

Source : "Military Procurement Authorization", United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services, 1963.

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“Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?”

Source : Abraham Pais (2005). “Subtle is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein”, p.90, Oxford University Press

“Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.”

“The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.'”

“Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.”

“Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in.”

“If we accept the notion that terrorists will have immunity because as they fire on civilians they hide behind civilians, then this tactic will be legitimized and the terrorists will have their greatest victory.”

“If you let a bully intimidate you, he's going to do it again. You've got to stand up to these strong-arm tactics.”

“We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom.”

Source : Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”

“Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.”

“It must be thoroughly understood that the lost land will never be won back by solemn appeals to the God, nor by hopes in any League of Nations, but only by the force of arms.”