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* ''The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates''--[[Retcon|er, that is,]] ''The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries''--is frequently quoted in ''[[Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic)|Schlock Mercenary]]''. This includes such gems as:

** 1. [[Rape, Pillage and Burn|Pillage]], ''[[In That Order|THEN]]'' [[Rape, Pillage and Burn|burn]]. ([http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20030308.html 1], [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20040404.html 2], [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20040722.html 3])

** 2. [[Don't Ask Just Run|A Sergeant in motion outranks a Lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on.]] ([http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20090731.html 1])

** 2. [[Don't Ask, Just Run|A Sergeant in motion outranks a Lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on.]] ([http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20090731.html 1])

** 3. [[Oh Crap|An ordnance technician]] [[Don't Ask Just Run|at a dead run outranks ]]''[[Don't Ask Just Run|everybody]]''. ([http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20091101.html 1])

** 3. [[Oh Crap|An ordnance technician]] [[Don't Ask, Just Run|at a dead run outranks ]]''[[Don't Ask, Just Run|everybody]]''. ([http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20091101.html 1])

** 4. [[Gunship Rescue|Close air support covereth a multitude of sins.]] ([http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20080415.html 1])

** 5. [[Friend or Foe|Close air support and friendly fire should be easier to tell apart.]] ([http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20100421.html 1])

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== Real Life ==

* [[Warrior Poet|Sun Tzu's]] ''[[The Art of War (Literature)|The Art of War]]'', the [[Older Than Feudalism|classic Chinese text]] and possible [[Trope Maker]] in the public consciousness, beloved by military strategists and pretended to be read by [[Nietzsche Wannabe|Nietzsche Wannabes]] everywhere. Despite its reputation, ''The Art of War'' is quite small, particularly in the original archaic Chinese. Publications usually include explanatory commentaries that are several times longer than the original work.

* [[Four Star Badass|Carl von Clausewitz]]'s ''On War'' is the West's premier work on military theory. Clausewitz notably argues for the inherent superiority of defense over offense and stresses the moral and political aspects of war. Even though the work is [[Author Existence Failure|unfinished]], it was highly influential at the time of the First World War and remains relevant today. The book coined the concept of the "fog of war" and memorably defined war as "the continuation of politics by other means."

* [[Four-Star Badass|Carl von Clausewitz]]'s ''On War'' is the West's premier work on military theory. Clausewitz notably argues for the inherent superiority of defense over offense and stresses the moral and political aspects of war. Even though the work is [[Author Existence Failure|unfinished]], it was highly influential at the time of the First World War and remains relevant today. The book coined the concept of the "fog of war" and memorably defined war as "the continuation of politics by other means."

* Machiavelli's ''[[The Prince (Literature)|The Prince]]'', which covers military strategy as it pertains to ruling monarchs, and his [[Discourses On Livy]], which devotes the second of its three sections chiefly to conducting war as a republic. Part of Machiavelli's intention is to convince his readers that the Italian city-states should not be reliant on mercenaries, and should instead build up militias. His tactics were gradually amended over the years and became the basis for linear tactics.

** Machiavelli also wrote an ''Art of War''

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** Especially notable is General David Petraeus' field manual on Counter-insurgency, for [[War On Terror|obvious reasons]].

** "One of the serious problems in planning against American doctrine that the Americans do not read their manuals nor do they feel any obligations to follow their doctrine."

* In [[The Thirty Six Stratagems]], there are Nine Principles of War.

* In [[The Thirty-Six Stratagems]], there are Nine Principles of War.

* In the US Navy, ancient wisdom has it that there are three ways of doing anything: "The right way, the wrong way, and the Navy way." "The Navy way" is, in many ships and shore commands, written down and collected (usually in three-ring binders) in volumes called "turnover guides" which are handed over by one person (department head, division officer, etc.) to another when officers and senior enlisteds rotate to different jobs within the command.

** Famously mentioned in Wouk's "The Caine Mutiny" where (right after "Navy way") the captain appends "and my way. On this ship, things will be done my way." It does not end well.

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