> what do you think vladimir putin means by this? the russian secret police are projecting hard, as usual > the short victorious war is a science fiction novel by american writer david weber, first published in 1994. it is the third book in the honor harrington series.[1] > its title comes from a quotation by vyacheslav von plehve in reference to the russo-japanese war: "what this country needs is a short, victorious war to stem the tide of revolution." that quotation is one of the novel's two epigraphs; the other is a quotation from robert wilson lynd: "the belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions."
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