{"id":34019,"date":"2017-09-26T01:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T05:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34019"},"modified":"2017-09-15T09:04:23","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T13:04:23","slug":"qotd-maxims-1-10-of-maximally-effective-mercenaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/09\/26\/qotd-maxims-1-10-of-maximally-effective-mercenaries\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Maxims 1-10 of Maximally Effective Mercenaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>1. Pillage, then burn.<br \/>\n2. A Sergeant in motion outranks a Lieutenant who doesn\u2019t know what\u2019s going on.<br \/>\n3. An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody.<br \/>\n4. Close air support covereth a multitude of sins.<br \/>\n5. Close air support and friendly fire should be easier to tell apart.<br \/>\n6. If violence wasn\u2019t your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.<br \/>\n7. If the food is good enough, the grunts will stop complaining about the incoming fire.<br \/>\n8. Mockery and derision have their place. Usually, it\u2019s on the far side of the airlock.<br \/>\n9. Never turn your back on an enemy.<br \/>\n10. Sometimes the only way out is through &#8230; through the hull.<\/p>\n<p>Howard Tayler, quoted by Rodney M. Bliss in <a href=\"http:\/\/rodneymbliss.com\/2015\/12\/18\/new-maxims-revealed-for-the-first-time\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;New Maxims Revealed For The First Time&#8221;, <em>Rodney M. Bliss<\/em><\/a>, 2015-12-18.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Pillage, then burn. 2. A Sergeant in motion outranks a Lieutenant who doesn\u2019t know what\u2019s going on. 3. An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody. 4. Close air support covereth a multitude of sins. 5. Close air support and friendly fire should be easier to tell apart. 6. If violence wasn\u2019t your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[57,5,41],"tags":[82,1048,85],"class_list":["post-34019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-military","category-quotations","tag-murphy","tag-schlockmercenary","tag-sf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8QH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34020,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34019\/revisions\/34020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}