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(Aldous) Huxley’s Law
Aldous Huxley
Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
(Hiram) Johnson’s Law
Hiram Johnson
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
(John P.) Kennedy’s Law
John P. Kennedy
All is fair in love and war.
(Sir Julian) Huxley’s Law
Julian Huxley
Sooner or later false thinking brings wrong conduct.
Bailey’s Rule
Nathaniel Bailey
Threats without power are like powder without ball.
Beaumont and Fletcher’s Law
Francis Beaumont
Beggars must be no choosers.
Boren’s Guidelines for Bureaucrats
James Boren
When in charge ponder; when in trouble delegate; when in doubt mumble.
Capone’s Law
Al Capone
You can get a lot more done with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word alone.
Carlyle’s Second Law
Thomas Carlyle
Do the duty which lies nearest thee, which thou knowest to be a duty! The second duty will already have become clearer.
Cicero’s Laws for Historians
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Clausewitz’s Law
Karl von Clausewitz
War is nothing more than the continuation of politics by other means.
Costello’s Conclusion
David F. Costello
There are more horses’ asses in this world than there are horses.
Decatur’s Law
Stephen Decatur
My country, right or wrong.
Eban’s Law
Abba Eban
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Kerr’s Law
Jean Kerr
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it’s just possible that you haven’t understood the situation.
Liddell Hart’s Maxims
Basil Liddell-Hart
1. Adjust your end to your means - in effect don’t bite off more than you can chew.
2. Keep your objective always in mind, adapting plans to circumstances, remembering that there are more ways than one of gaining an objective and making sure that attainment of intermediate objectives is worthwhile. “To wander down a side-track is bad but to reach a dead end is worse.”
3. Choose the line (or course) of least expectation i.e. put yourself in your opponent’s shoes and take the line of action that he (or she) is least likely to foresee or forestall.
4. Exploit the line of least resistance - providing of course that it leads toward your ultimate objective.
5. Pursue a line of operation that offers alternate objectives. Your opponent will not be sure which objective to defend most strongly and you will have a better chance of gaining at least one of them - whichever he (or she) guards least - and perhaps of achieving one after the other.
6. Make sure that your plans and dispositions of forces are flexible. Any plan should provide for a next step quickly carried out in case of success or failure or - the more common outcome in war - partial success. (See also Publilius’s Maxims no. 469.)
7. Do not throw your weight into an offensive while your opponent is on guard. Unless the enemy is much inferior in strength, wait until his (or her) power of resistance or evasion is paralysed by disorganisation and demoralisation before making a real attack.
8. Do not renew an attack along the same line or in the same manner after it has once failed. Bringing up reinforcements is not enough since the enemy is likely to do the same and his (or her) success in repulsing you will have strengthened his (or her) morale.
2. Keep your objective always in mind, adapting plans to circumstances, remembering that there are more ways than one of gaining an objective and making sure that attainment of intermediate objectives is worthwhile. “To wander down a side-track is bad but to reach a dead end is worse.”
3. Choose the line (or course) of least expectation i.e. put yourself in your opponent’s shoes and take the line of action that he (or she) is least likely to foresee or forestall.
4. Exploit the line of least resistance - providing of course that it leads toward your ultimate objective.
5. Pursue a line of operation that offers alternate objectives. Your opponent will not be sure which objective to defend most strongly and you will have a better chance of gaining at least one of them - whichever he (or she) guards least - and perhaps of achieving one after the other.
6. Make sure that your plans and dispositions of forces are flexible. Any plan should provide for a next step quickly carried out in case of success or failure or - the more common outcome in war - partial success. (See also Publilius’s Maxims no. 469.)
7. Do not throw your weight into an offensive while your opponent is on guard. Unless the enemy is much inferior in strength, wait until his (or her) power of resistance or evasion is paralysed by disorganisation and demoralisation before making a real attack.
8. Do not renew an attack along the same line or in the same manner after it has once failed. Bringing up reinforcements is not enough since the enemy is likely to do the same and his (or her) success in repulsing you will have strengthened his (or her) morale.
Marcy’s Law
William Learned Marcy
To the victor belong the spoils.
Murphy’s Fourth Military Law
Edward A. Murphy
If you really need an officer in a hurry take a nap.
Murphy’s Second Military Law
Edward A. Murphy
Friendly fire isn’t.
Murphy’s Third Military Law
Edward A. Murphy
The most dangerous thing in a combat zone is an officer with a map.
Stalin’s Law
Joseph Stalin
You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.
Swift’s Maxim
Jonathan Swift
Those to whom everybody allows the second place have an undoubted title to the first.
The Trollope Ploy
Anthony Trollope
To interpret - or willfully misinterpret - a message in the most favourable manner to oneself.
Thoreau’s Third Law
Henry David Thoreau
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready and it may be a long time before they get off.
Thucydides’s Law of Peace and War
Thucydides
In times of peace and prosperity, cities and individuals alike follow higher standards because they are not forced into a situation where they have to do what they do not want to do. But war is a stern teacher; in depriving them of the power of easily satisfying their wants it brings most people’s minds down to the level of their actual circumstances.
Truman’s First Law
Harry S. Truman
The buck stops here.
Urquhart’s Rule of Diplomacy
Brian Urquhardt
Don’t dive into an empty pool.
Vegetius’s Maxim
Flavius Vegetius
He therefore who desires peace should prepare for war.
Aiken’s Solution
George Aiken
Claim victory and retreat.
Camp’s Law
Anon
A coup that is known about in advance is a coup that does not take place.
Murphy’s First Military Law (a.k.a. the Army Law)
Edward A. Murphy
Any order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.
Strategy for Saakashvili
Editor
Captain Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart, one of the most influential military thinkers of the twentieth century, distilled the essence of strategy and tactics into eight maxims in his classic work Strategy. His ideas strongly influenced German tactics in WW2, Field Marshal Rommel declaring that “The British would have been able to prevent the greatest part of their defeats if they had paid attention to the modern theories expounded by Liddell Hart before the war.”
Beleagured Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili looks like he has already breached the first of the 8 maxims. Survival of the Russian onslaught may now depend more in diplomacy than warfare. With that in mind, he and George Bush could do worse than study Kennedy’s handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and, in particular, The Trollope Ploy.
The Army Law
Anon
If it moves salute it; if it doesn’t move pick it up; and if you can’t pick it up, paint it.
The first law is that the historian shall never dare to set down what is false; the second that he shall never dare to conceal the truth; the third that there shall be no suspicion in his work of either favouritism or prejudice.
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