Now, he - so he lost strategic surprise.

"But if we wait over four months-how can we be assured of strategic surprise?"

With true strategic surprise, if our maskirovka works, yes, we will almost certainly win on the battlefield.

You will remember telling us that if strategic surprise were lost, our armies could be recalled.

I told them that we needed strategic surprise, and that we'd have difficulty achieving it if we waited so long.

Comrades, we failed initially to achieve strategic and tactical surprise.

Once the Allies realize we're out of dry dock so much sooner than they expected, all our strategic surprise will be lost.

Indeed, he may not wait till then; he is the master of strategic surprise.

Their approach and dawn assault achieved almost total strategic and tactical surprise.

Still, it seems mean to spoil a strategic surprise for folks who like that kind of thing.