“Everybody keeps saying - reform, reform. The T-72 has proved itself wonderfully in Chechnya. So we will be making reform on the basis of T-72.”

— Pavel Grachev

The War in Chechnya: Implications for Military Reform and Creation of Mobile Forces http://www.amina.com/article/chapter4.html.

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