... of dozen of European languages invading Russia in 1812. It was the largest army (how novel for Russians, not) in history at that time to invade Russia. Napoleon assembled all of Europe for that. Well, French excluded most of the battles from their so called "history" books (you know, frost, all those nasty Russians and Cossacks et al interfered with otherwise "brilliant" Napoleon), but reality is--it was a calamity of unimaginable scale (how traditional, eh). And it was at Borodino that Russians exorcised European spirit for pillage, theft and robbery for almost a century.
Fucking illiterate idiots with fake credentials who teach the so called "strategy" in the US (Western in general) military academies and war colleges still cannot resign themselves to a simple truth, that forces larger than them in intellect and resources are at play here and that they have no clue about what they are dealing with.
P.S. What's the deal with this June thing, hm? I guess they love solid roads in Russia. I always said--I don't like this whole highway system in Russia, wink, wink;)
P.P.S. I reiterate, Tolstoy doesn't say "And it is well", he says "И Благо тому народу"--And Blessed are the people.