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.
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