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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.

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

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