I'm not a big internet guy - not because I'm not interested in what people have to say, but probably because I'm too interested.
Generals do not always run wars the way they would like to, nor the troops under them.
The most important thing, my father told me, which I have never forgotten, and which I have often put unto practice was: If you get into a quarrel with anybody, hit him first. "If you hit first, the battle is half-won," my father always said "Don't let him hit first. You hit him first. ""What's more," he never forgot to say, too "Usually one blow is all you need. "I found this to be true.
No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be.
Command is often not what you do but the way you do it.
I believe that one can't command sitting on one's ass in the rear. One has to up among the forward brigade commanders, even as far as battalion commanders, especially if one is fighting a defensive action. One simply has to know what is going on.
Perhaps if Hitler had had the wisdom to withdraw his troops and prepare for the defense of his own country, Germany, despite the loss of face this would entail in the losing of all Italy, then the course of the war, if not the outcome, would have been quite different.
Some people tried to hurt us to protect themselves, their family and communities. . . This was one of the consequences of civil war. People stopped trusting each other, and every stranger became an enemy. Even people who knew you became extremely careful about how they related or spoke to you.
It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
Big media are all about the angle, the spin. Look to the overarching theme that runs through each and every news story. Be hip to the meta-narrative peddled.
The Russian people chose democracy at the beginning of the 1990s and this was their final choice.