#redstormrising

" The problem with hard decisions, he learned, was not making them, but learning to live with the consequences, however necessary. " #RedStormRising #TomClancy #Bookworm

" There is an unwritten rule in Soviet publications, both military and civilian, that you can criticize, but not generalize. What that means is that individual screwups can be identified and castigated at length, but for political reasons it is unacceptable to make general criticisms applying to a whole institution. You see, a critique that pointed to an all-pervasive condition would ipso facto critique Soviet society as a whole, and thereby the Communist Party, which oversees every aspect of Soviet life. " ~ Bob Toland 😎 #RedStormRising #TomClancy #Bookworm

" They are guardians of the State. They enjoy positions of the greatest trust. They have betrayed that trust by lying, and in doing so, they have endangered the State. The penalty for treason is death. It is a hard thing, and I take no pleasure in it--but unless we snap our units into shape, how many young boys will die for their officers' failings? We need combat readiness more than we need four liars. If there is a gentler way to achieve this don't know what that might be. An army without discipline is a worthless mob. We have the directive to make examples of unruly privates and restore the authority of our NCOs. It is fitting that if privates must suffer for their failings, then their colonels must suffer too. Theirs is the greater responsibility. Theirs is the greater reward. A few examples here will go a long way to restoring our army. " ~ Pavel Leonidovich Alekseyev #RedStormRising #TomClancy #Bookworm