{"id":34021,"date":"2017-09-27T01:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T05:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34021"},"modified":"2017-09-16T07:57:08","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T11:57:08","slug":"qotd-maxims-11-20-of-maximally-effective-mercenaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/09\/27\/qotd-maxims-11-20-of-maximally-effective-mercenaries\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Maxims 11-20 of Maximally Effective Mercenaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>11. Everything is air-droppable at least once.<br \/>\n12. A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head.<br \/>\n13. Do unto others.<br \/>\n14. \u201cMad Science\u201d means never stopping to ask \u201cwhat\u2019s the worst thing that could happen?\u201d<br \/>\n15. Only you can prevent friendly fire.<br \/>\n16. Your name is in the mouth of others: be sure it has teeth.<br \/>\n17. The longer everything goes according to plan, the bigger the impending disaster.<br \/>\n18. If the officers are leading from in front, watch out for an attack from the rear.<br \/>\n19. The world is richer when you turn enemies into friends, but that\u2019s not the same as you being richer.<br \/>\n20. If you\u2019re not willing to shell your own position, you\u2019re not willing to win.<\/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>11. Everything is air-droppable at least once. 12. A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head. 13. Do unto others. 14. \u201cMad Science\u201d means never stopping to ask \u201cwhat\u2019s the worst thing that could happen?\u201d 15. Only you can prevent friendly fire. 16. Your name [&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":[1048,85],"class_list":["post-34021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-military","category-quotations","tag-schlockmercenary","tag-sf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8QJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34021","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=34021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34023,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34021\/revisions\/34023"}],"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=34021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}