ABSTRACT
I. P. Uborevich served as commander in various military districts and afterward as the people's commissar for military and naval affairs. Like Marshal Tukhachevskiy, he was regarded as one of the most brilliant and capable of the Soviet military commanders of the 1920s and 1930s. Uborevich listed four basic principles for waging battle: a single thought and a single will; the dominance of will and initiative; the principle of the partial victory; and surprise. Presentation of the principle of partial victory has a rich literature in the fields of strategy and tactics with which most of those assembled are, obviously, already familiar. Psychologically surprise is very understandable, and we see in the chronicles of bloody wars how it has affected the individual fighting man and the entire troop unit. Actually the principles of waging battle are everything, and all that is necessary is to add certain conditions which insure that they are followed.
