Military
Main article: Military history of the Russian Empire See also: Russo-Swedish Wars (disambiguation), Russo-Turkish Wars, Russo-Persian Wars, Russo-Polish Wars, and Russo-Japanese WarThe Russian Empire's military consisted of the Imperial Russian Army, Imperial Russian Navy, and the Imperial Russian Air Force.
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“We’re in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.”
—Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)
“In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)
“War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valour, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)