{"id":34027,"date":"2017-09-30T01:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T05:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34027"},"modified":"2017-09-20T09:08:07","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T13:08:07","slug":"qotd-maxims-41-50-of-maximally-effective-mercenaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/09\/30\/qotd-maxims-41-50-of-maximally-effective-mercenaries\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Maxims 41-50 of Maximally Effective Mercenaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>41. \u201cDo you have a backup?\u201d means \u201cI can\u2019t fix this.\u201d<br \/>\n42. \u201cThey\u2019ll never expect this\u2019 means \u201cI want to try something stupid.\u201d<br \/>\n43. If it\u2019s stupid and it works, it\u2019s still stupid and you\u2019re lucky.<br \/>\n44. If it will blow a hole in the ground, it will double as an entrenching tool.<br \/>\n45. The size of the combat bonus is inversely proportional to the likelihood of surviving to collect it.<br \/>\n46. Don\u2019t try to save money by conserving ammunition.<br \/>\n47. Don\u2019t expect the enemy to cooperate in the creation of your dream engagement.<br \/>\n48. If it ain\u2019t broke, it hasn\u2019t been issued to the infantry.<br \/>\n49. Every client is one missed payment away from becoming a target.<br \/>\n50. Let them see you sharpen the sword before you fall on it.<\/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>41. \u201cDo you have a backup?\u201d means \u201cI can\u2019t fix this.\u201d 42. \u201cThey\u2019ll never expect this\u2019 means \u201cI want to try something stupid.\u201d 43. If it\u2019s stupid and it works, it\u2019s still stupid and you\u2019re lucky. 44. If it will blow a hole in the ground, it will double as an entrenching tool. 45. The [&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-34027","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\/p2hpV6-8QP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34027","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=34027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34028,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34027\/revisions\/34028"}],"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=34027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}