Alexander Suvorov: Quotes about combat

Alexander Suvorov was Russian military commander. Explore interesting quotes on fight.
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“As long as the enemy fights he must be beaten relentlessly, but a defeated enemy and especially the civilian population must be treated generously.”

Yesterday and Today, 1917-1967: Contemporaries Report on the Progress of German Soviet Friendship - Page 105 - by Verlag Zeit im Bild - Soviet Union - 1967.

“Train hard, fight easy.”

other version: Hard training - easy combat; easy training - hard combat.
Philip Longworth: The Art of Victory, New York, 1965, cited in af.mil http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1986/nov-dec/menning.html.

“Fight the enemy with the weapons he lacks.”

Quoted in Ossipov, "Suvorov," 1945.