“[T]he prominent Russian military expert Major General Talensky wrote in October 1960 in Mezhdunarodnaya Zhisn that even local wars had now become ‘impossible’ because there was always a dangerous tendency for them to escalate into world catastrophes. In consequence, the dictum of Clausewitz that ‘war is the continuation of politics by other means’ had lost its validity; modern warfare had become suicidal and therefore nonsensical.”