Word: napoleonism
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...Army. The love of land, the hatred of trespassers was strong and deep in the Russian soldier long before political commissars appeared to share and fan it, to shape and use it as a weapon. The tunes that Tsar Alexander's soldiers sang at Borodino, when they fought Napoleon, rang over the Red Army's lines last week. In War and Peace Leo Tolstoy's Andrey Bolkonsky said to Pierre: "Victory never can be, and never has been, the outcome of position, numbers and character of arms...
Whatever his place, he is such a man as some of the commanders Napoleon assembled around him in his youth: tough, untutored, plebeian, successful. The German radio recently quoted him as saying...
Extemporaneous Art. Napoleon said that if the art of war were that of avoiding risk, glory would be at the mercy of the mediocre. All generals make mistakes. The best generals are those who rectify their own mistakes with the least loss. War, in short, is an extemporaneous...
Whatever his place, he is such a man as some of the commanders Napoleon assembled around him in his youth: tough, untutored, plebeian, successful. The German radio recently quoted him as saying...
Extemporaneous Art. Napoleon said that if the art of war were that of avoiding risk, glory would be at the mercy of the mediocre. All generals make mistakes. The best generals are those who rectify their own mistakes with the least loss. War, in short, is an extemporaneous...