{"id":34022,"date":"2017-09-28T01:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T05:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34022"},"modified":"2017-09-18T08:27:19","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T12:27:19","slug":"qotd-maxims-21-30-of-maximally-effective-mercenaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/09\/28\/qotd-maxims-21-30-of-maximally-effective-mercenaries\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Maxims 21-30 of Maximally Effective Mercenaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>21. Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Take his fish away and tell him he\u2019s lucky just to be alive, and he\u2019ll figure out how to catch another one for you to take tomorrow.<br \/>\n22. If you can see the whites of their eyes, somebody\u2019s done something wrong.<br \/>\n23. The company mess and friendly fire should be easier to tell apart.<br \/>\n24. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a big gun.<br \/>\n25. If the damage you do is covered by a manufacturers warranty, you didn\u2019t do enough damage.<br \/>\n26. \u201cFire and forget\u201d is fine, provided you never actually forget.<br \/>\n27. Don\u2019t be afraid to be the first to resort to violence.<br \/>\n28. If the price of collateral damage is high enough, you might be able to get paid for bringing ammunition home with you.<br \/>\n29. The enemy of my enemy is my enemy\u2019s enemy. No more. No less.<br \/>\n30. A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the further you\u2019ll go.<\/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>21. Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Take his fish away and tell him he\u2019s lucky just to be alive, and he\u2019ll figure out how to catch another one for you to take tomorrow. 22. If you can see the whites of their eyes, somebody\u2019s done something wrong. 23. The company [&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-34022","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\/p2hpV6-8QK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34022","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=34022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34024,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34022\/revisions\/34024"}],"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=34022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}