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“The Sukhomlinov effectâ€�: the principle that there is an inverse correlation between the attention a general pays to his uniforms and his military skill.”
― Christopher Andrew, The Secret World: A History of Intelligence

“The Legislative Assembly’s decision in April 1792 to declare war on Austria did even more than religious conflict to radicalize the Revolution. The combination of foreign war and internal conflict turned France into the world’s first police state, committed to the surveillance and repression of all opposition. Pressure for its creation came less from revolutionary leaders than from popular hysteria in Paris, whipped up by conspiracy theories of a secret alliance between enemies abroad and counter-revolutionary traitors at home. Many believed that Louis XVI and the Austrian-born Marie-Antoinette were part of an aristocratic plot to join forces with the invading Austrian army and its Prussian allies”
― Christopher M. Andrew, The Secret World: A History of Intelligence