Матвей Васильевич Захаров цитаты

“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.”

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Matvei Zakharov

Quoted in "Timely Lessons of History: The Manchurian Model for Soviet Strategy" - Page 4 - by John Despres, Lilita Dzirkals, Barton Whaley - History - 1976

“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.”

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Matvei Zakharov

Quoted in "Stalin's Generals" - Page 338 - by Harold Shukman - History - 2002

“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.”

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Matvei Zakharov

Quoted in "Soviet Russia and the Middle East" - Page 46 - by Aaron S. Klieman - 1970