Military strategy changed more slowly than tactics and operational art. The first signs of a revision of Stalinist orthodoxy came in September 1953, when Major-General N. Talenskii, editor of the classified journal Voennaia Mysl’, published an article “On the Question of the Character of the Laws of Military Science.”66 As its title suggests, this article was an abstract discussion of military science.67 What made it significant was that it questioned the adequacy of the “permanently operating factors” as a guide to victory, and asserted the prerogatives of the military by defining the subject
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