...or I shall be called a barbarian by the Peace Society — that I hold it as a principle in Asia that the duration of peace is in direct proportion to the...hit them the longer they will be quiet afterwards. We killed nearly 20,000 Turcomans at Geok Tepe. The survivors will not soon forget the lesson.' ' I...

...the subjugation of Oriental peoples. Skobeleff himself candidly expressed it as follows : Hi3 prin' I hold it as a principle that in Asia the duration...the longer they will be quiet afterwards. My system i Grodekoff, chap. xvi. 2 Compare the massacre of the Yomud Turkomans at Kizil Takir by General Kaufmann...

...is their duty, and who do not entertain visionary sentiments," such as humaneness. Again he writes, "I hold it as a principle that in Asia the duration...proportion to the slaughter you inflict upon the enemy. My system is this : to strike hard, and keep on hitting till resistance is completely over; then at...

...massacre as a necessary element in the conquest of Geok Tepe. " I hold it as a principle," he said, " that in Asia the duration of peace is in direct proportion to the slaughter you inflict on the enemy. The harder you hit them the longer they will keep quiet after it." No women, he added,...

...massacre as a necessary element in the conquest of Geok Tepe. " I hold it as a principle," he said, "that in Asia the duration of peace is in direct proportion to the slaughter you inflict on the enemy. The harder you hit them the longer they will keep quiet after it." No women, he added,...

...governor-general of Russia has ever since been leading by the band the orphans of those who fell in the fight. "I hold it as a principle that in Asia the duration...direct proportion to the slaughter you inflict upon the natives," said Skobeleff in defence of his tactics. "The harder you hit them the longer they will be...

...intrigue, and of force when necessary. As General Skobelev remarked, when referring to the Turkomans, "The harder you hit them, the longer they will be quiet afterwards." Moreover, the Russians were among the earliest Europeans to study the customs and languages of the...

...palpable force,"2 while the latter observed during his campaign in Central Asia in 1880-81: "I hold it a principle that in Asia the duration of peace is...direct proportion to the slaughter you inflict upon the enemy."1 Drawing on three and a half centuries of experience of ruthless dealings with Muslim subjects...

...slaughter. In justification for this afterwards, the general declared: 'I hold it as a principle that the duration of peace is in direct proportion to the...the enemy. The harder you hit them, the longer they remain quiet.' It was, he claimed, a far more effective way of pacifying troublesome neighbours than...

...through prolonged and ruthless campaigns. The great Russian conqueror General MD Skobelov espoused the "principle that, in Asia the duration of peace is in direct proportion to the slaughter you inflict on the enemy. The harder you hit them, the longer they will remain quiet afterwards." Counterinsurgency...