Matvei Zakharov Quotes

1898–1972 Russia

Matvei Vasilevich Zakharov (17 August 1898 – 31 January 1972) was Marshal of the Soviet Union, Chief of the General Staff, and Deputy Defense Minister, serving under Kliment Voroshilov during the Russian Civil War. The urn containing his ashes is buried by the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.

Russia
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Also known as: Zakharov, Matvei

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With the emergence of nuclear-missile weaponry, cybernetics, electronics, and computer equipment, any subjective approach to military problems, hare-brained plans, and superficiality can cause irreparable damage.

The time when Russia could be kept out of the world's oceans has gone forever. We shall sail all the world's seas; no force on earth can prevent us.

Soviet Russia and the Middle East (1970)

Attention must be given to the study of the given operations. Their study with due allowance made for the existing means of warfare will make it possible to reach a number of useful theoretical conclusions for conducting operations in the initial phase of a war.

Timely Lessons of History: The Manchurian Model for Soviet Strategy (1976)

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