Cika wannan magana: Daga cikin masu bita akwai sojoji da marubutan da suka kware a littattafan yaƙi. Yawancin sun ba da kimantawa sosai game da fasaha da gaskiyar yanayin yaƙin Tolstoy. N. Lachinov, wani memba na "Russky Invalid" jarida ma'aikatan (# 69, Afrilu 10, 1868) da ake kira da
Fannonin yakin Schöngrabern "suna dauke da mafi girman tarihin tarihi da fasaha" kuma sun yarda da ra'ayin marubucin game da yakin Borodino, wanda wasu abokan adawarsa suka yi jayayya. Janar na soja kuma marubucin soja mai daraja Mikhail Dragomirov, a cikin wata kasida da aka buga a cikin ("The Military Almanac", 1868<unk>70), yayin da yake jayayya da wasu ra'ayoyin Tolstoy game da "saurin" yaƙe-yaƙe da rawar kwamandan a cikin yaƙe-yaƙe, ya shawarci duk jami'an Sojan Rasha da su yi amfani da "Yaƙi da Zaman Lafiya" a matsayin littafin teburin su, suna bayyana wuraren yaƙe-yaƙe a matsayin "wanda ba za a iya kwatanta shi ba" da kuma "yin aiki a matsayin manufa mai kyau ga kowane littafi a kan ka'idojin fasahar soja".