Alexander Suvorov Quotes
Win with ability, not with numbers.
This was the philosophy of the Israeli Defense Forces of the 20th Century, and became fundamental to the American military with its cultivation, training and use of special, elite forces.
Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov, 1729–1800, Russian General & Field Marshall, Quoted in Danchenko and Vydrin, Military Pedagogy, 1973
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Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov was a Russian general in service of the Russian Empire. He was Count of Rymnik, Count of the Holy Roman Empire, Prince of Italy, and the last Generalissimo of the Russian Empire. Suvorov is considered one of the greatest military commanders in Russian history and one of the great generals of the early modern period. He was awarded numerous medals, titles, and honors by Russia, as well as by other countries. Suvorov secured Russia's expanded borders and renewed military prestige and left a legacy of theories on warfare. He was the author of several military manuals, the most famous being The Science of Victory, and was noted for several of his sayings. Several military academies, monuments, villages, museums, and orders in Russia are dedicated to him. He never lost a single major battle he had commanded.