[Noswad]

"…The GRU's tactics toward terrorists are simple: never give them any orders, never tell them what to do. They are destroying Western civilization: they know how to do it, the argument goes, so let them get on with it unfettered by petty supervision. Among them there are idealists ready to die for their own ideas. So let them die for them. The most important thing is to preserve their illusion that they are completely free and independent. "

Spetsnaz --- Viktor Surovov 1987

[Poohbah]

Suvorov's book about Spetsnaz was so full of inaccuracies and outright falsehoods that I wouldn't use it as a reference. He was cheerfully savaged by the professional Spetsnaz-watchers of the intel and special ops communities when the book came out.