How to botch a war despite being handed it on a plate

Robert Lyman

WELL, THOSE IGNORAMUSES IN Moscow got it wrong from the outset. They didn’t understand — out of a mixture of ignorance and arrogance, and a fair bit of stupidity — that to win a revolution one needed to start from inside, not to enforce it from outside, before it had even begun! Craziness. Dmitri and I could have done it blindfolded of course, along with the rest of us who still had half a brain in the so-called “new” army of the Russian Federation. New my arse! But sadly, professionalism and competence were no longer required for mid-ranking officers like him and me, for whom the only way to secure advancement up the greasy pole was by taking a cut from reselling the gasoline quota for our BMP-2s. It made…

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