Author: A Murphy's Military Law Page 4

All battles are fought at the junction of two or more map sheets… printed at different scales.

Military Murphy’s Laws

Radios will fail as soon as you need fire support desperately

Corollary: Radar tends to fail at night and in bad weather, and especially during both

Communication Murphy’s Laws

The quartermaster has only two sizes, too large and too small.

Clothing Military Murphy’s Laws

If you find yourself in front of your platoon they know something you don't.

Military Murphy’s Laws

The buddy system is essential to your survival; it gives the enemy somebody else to shoot at.

Military Murphy’s Laws

The one item you need is always in short supply.

Military

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

Health Military Murphy’s Laws

No plan survives first contact intact.

Military Murphy’s Laws

If your advance is going well, you are walking into an ambush.

Military Murphy’s Laws

Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't.

Arms Government Military Murphy’s Laws

If the enemy is in range, so are you!

Military Murphy’s Laws

Mines are equal opportunity weapons.

Arms Military Murphy’s Laws

If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you may have misjudged the situation.

Military Murphy’s Laws

The complexity of a weapon is inversely proportional to the IQ of the weapon's operator.

Arms Intelligence Military

When the enemy is closing, the artillery will always be long

Military Murphy’s Laws

There is nothing more satisfying that having someone take a shot at you, and miss.

Military

The enemy invariably attacks on one of two occasions:
1. When you’re ready for them. 2. When you’re not ready for them.

Military Murphy’s Laws

The weight of all of your equipment is proportional to the cube of the time you have been carrying it.

Military

Make it too tough for the enemy to get in and you can't get out.

Military Murphy’s Laws