The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of distinction between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.
-- Sir William Francis Butler
This book is a full-scale study in English of tsarist civil-military relations in the last decades of the Russian Empire.
Originally published in 1985.
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