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The concept of absolute war was a theoretical construct developed by the Prussian military theorist General Carl von Clausewitz in his famous but unfinished philosophical exploration of war, Vom Kriege (in English, On War, 1832). It is discussed only in the first half of Book VIII (there are only a couple of references to it elsewhere) and it ...
This is a list of wars and armed conflicts involving Russia and its predecessors in chronological order, from the 9th to the 21st century.. The Russian military and troops of its predecessor states in Russia took part in a large number of wars and armed clashes in various parts of the world: starting from the princely squads, opposing the raids of nomads, and fighting for the expansion of the ...
Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 978-0-375-72471-8.. Braithwaite, Rodric. Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War. London: Profile Books Ltd., 2006. ISBN 1-86197-759-X. Collection of legislative acts related to State Awards of the USSR (1984), Moscow, ed. Izvestia. Belov, Pavel Alekseevich (1963).
The 71-year-old Russian leader spent more than 20 minutes showering a baffled Carlson with dates and names going back to the ninth century. ... front of a monument to victims of Soviet repressions ...
The Soviet Union (USSR) occupied most of the territory of the Baltic states in its 1944 Baltic Offensive during World War II. [1] The Red Army regained control over the three Baltic capitals and encircled retreating Wehrmacht and Latvian forces in the Courland Pocket where they held out until the final German surrender at the end of the war.
The Russian leader is presented as a man who saved the country from the ruins and is now left defending it from the same enemies who threatened the USSR, she said.
The Rovno-Lutsk operation (Russian: Ровно-Луцкая операция), [2] was an offensive operation in the Western Ukraine, carried out by the far right-wing of the Red Army's 1st Ukrainian Front against the elements of the 4th Panzer Army of Army Group South, with the aim of enveloping the left wing of this army group. [3]
Russia said earlier that Mr al-Assad had left office and departed his country after giving orders for a peaceful transfer of power, but did not say where he was now or whether the Russian military ...