“I would go on reconnaissance with him,” they say about a person you can rely on. It’s just that in the time that has passed since the war, the original meaning of this phrase has been erased and devalued. What real military intelligence is, what each search for the front line cost, what blood they paid for the “tongues” and valuable intelligence information - only the regimental and divisional intelligence officers themselves can tell. And each such evidence is worth its weight in gold. Because there are few of them left, very few. Because their chances of surviving were an order of magnitude less than that of other front-line soldiers. Because, as Shalom Skopas admitted in his interview: “Any horror film will seem like a lyrical comedy to you after an honest story from a military intelligence officer about what he saw and experienced. After all, very, very often we had to kill Germans not with a machine gun, but to cut them with knives and strangle them with our hands. Think for yourself what is behind the phrase “I removed the sentry” or “we silently neutralized the guards.” Ask the scouts what nightmares they still have at night..." And before you say about someone that you would go with him on reconnaissance, ask yourself a question: are you ready to go?