{"id":40238,"date":"2017-10-01T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T05:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=40238"},"modified":"2017-09-21T09:39:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T13:39:17","slug":"qotd-maxims-51-60-of-maximally-effective-mercenaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/10\/01\/qotd-maxims-51-60-of-maximally-effective-mercenaries\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Maxims 51-60 of Maximally Effective Mercenaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>51. Let them see you sharpen the sword before you fall on it.<br \/>\n52. The army you&#8217;ve got is never the army you want.<br \/>\n53. The intel you&#8217;ve got is never the intel you want.<br \/>\n54. It&#8217;s only too many troops if you can&#8217;t pay them.<br \/>\n55. It&#8217;s only too many weapons if they&#8217;re pointing in the wrong direction.<br \/>\n56. Infantry exists to paint targets for people with real guns.<br \/>\n57. Artillery exists to launch large chunks of budget at an enemy it cannot actually see.<br \/>\n58. The pen is mightiest when it writes orders for swords.<br \/>\n59. Two wrongs is probably not going to be enough.<br \/>\n60. Any weapon&#8217;s rate of fire is inversely proportional to the number of available targets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Link Weimar&#8221; (aka Howard Tayler), <em>Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries: 301st Anniversary Annotated Edition<\/em>, 2017.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>51. Let them see you sharpen the sword before you fall on it. 52. The army you&#8217;ve got is never the army you want. 53. The intel you&#8217;ve got is never the intel you want. 54. It&#8217;s only too many troops if you can&#8217;t pay them. 55. It&#8217;s only too many weapons if they&#8217;re pointing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[57,5,41],"tags":[1048,85],"class_list":["post-40238","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-at0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40238","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=40238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40239,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40238\/revisions\/40239"}],"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=40238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}