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- Ibid., 67.
- Ibid., 69.
- Ibid., 67.
- Ibid., 69.
- Ibid., 81–163.
- Ibid., 65–6. On this one-sided reading, see Jon Tetsuro Sumida,Decoding Clausewitz: A
New Approach to ‘On War’(Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2008), 179–80. - Ibid., 240. Svechin noted that ‘the study of Napoleon’s campaigns was reduced to the
study of operational rather than the strategic art’. - Svechin.Strategy, 246–7.
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1928), 94–108. - Bruce W. Menning, ‘Ni Mol’tke, ni Mekhen: Strategiia v Russko-Iaponskoi voine’, in
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Industrial Mobilization, 1926–1937(Stockholm, Sweden: Stockholm Institute of East
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ucheniia(Moscow: Voenizdat, 1983), 93–9. - In 1928, the main intelligence directorate of the Red Army Staff completed a major
study on the prospects of future war with Poland and Romania as the main opponents
supported by the British and French. Svechin and Tukhachevsky both took an active
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