{"id":40240,"date":"2017-10-02T01:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T05:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=40240"},"modified":"2017-09-21T09:49:16","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T13:49:16","slug":"qotd-maxims-61-70-of-maximally-effective-mercenaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/10\/02\/qotd-maxims-61-70-of-maximally-effective-mercenaries\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Maxims 61-70 of Maximally Effective Mercenaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>61. Don&#8217;t bring big grenades into small rooms.<br \/>\n62. Anything labelled &#8220;This end toward enemy&#8221; is dangerous at both ends.<br \/>\n63. The brass knows how to do it by knowing who can do it.<br \/>\n64. An ounce of sniper is worth a pound of suppressing fire.<br \/>\n65. After the toss, be the one with the pin, not the one with the grenade.<br \/>\n66. Necessity is the mother of deception.<br \/>\n67. If you can&#8217;t carry cash, carry a weapon.<br \/>\n68. Negotiating from a position of strength does not mean you shouldn&#8217;t also negotiate from a position near the exits.<br \/>\n69. Sometimes rank is a function of firepower.<br \/>\n70. Failure isn&#8217;t an option. It&#8217;s mandatory. The option is whether or not to let failure be the last thing you do.<\/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>61. Don&#8217;t bring big grenades into small rooms. 62. Anything labelled &#8220;This end toward enemy&#8221; is dangerous at both ends. 63. The brass knows how to do it by knowing who can do it. 64. An ounce of sniper is worth a pound of suppressing fire. 65. After the toss, be the one with the [&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-40240","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-at2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40240","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=40240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40241,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40240\/revisions\/40241"}],"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=40240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}