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Filuwaúrdjan
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« on: July 22, 2021, 11:51:41 AM »
« edited: July 22, 2021, 12:17:49 PM by Filuwaúrdjan »

Well, the politicians for one (Caesar, Napoleon) but one can recognise their skill at propaganda was a skill in its own way.

C.f. Caesar managing to palm off his failed expeditions to Britain as successes of a sort.

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Here's take: brusilov is often seen as the only smart guy in the Tsarist machine and, yeah, he was a very good tactician, but the long-term impact of his offensive was absolutely disastrous for Russian morale.

It's always very telling when he gets rated highly. One of the most objectively disastrous generals in a war full of them: there will probably never be a better (or more horrifying) example of a Pyrrhic Victory than the Brusilov Offensive. A million of his own men dead on the not even unreasonable higher estimates!
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