I spent a career struggling to solve puzzles that far too often resulted in conflict, principally with multinational corporations and their lawyers. A peer sent this list to me thirty years ago and I still find it funny and insightful.
Murphy’s Laws of Combat, Marion F. Sturkey
1. If the enemy is in range, so are you.
2. Incoming fire has the right of way.
3. Don’t look conspicuous, it draws fire.
4. There is always a way.
5. The easy way is always mined.
6. Try to look unimportant, they may be low on ammo.
7. Professionals are predictable, it’s the amateurs that are dangerous.
8. The enemy invariably attacks on two occasions:
a. When you’re ready for them.
b. When you’re not ready for them.
9. Teamwork is essential, it gives them someone else to shoot at.
10. If you can’t remember, the claymore is pointed at you.
11. The enemy diversion you have been ignoring will be the main attack.
12. A “sucking chest wound” is natures way of telling you to slow
down.
13. If your attack is going well, you have walked into an ambush.
14. Never draw fire, it irritates everyone around you.
15. Anything you do can get you shot, including nothing.
16. Make it tough enough for the enemy to get in and you won’t be
able to get out.
17. Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than yourself.
18. If you are short of everything but the enemy, you are in a combat zone.
19. When you have secured an area, don’t forget to tell the enemy.
20. Never forget that your weapon is made by the lowest bidder.
21. Friendly Fire Isn’t.
I remembered No. 11, as I was thinking about American society and culture. The enemy diversion of cultural manipulation we are ignoring is the main attack. Though we assume the main attack is political.
Israel is currently fighting a physical war against those set upon her destruction, but America is in a similar spiritual war for her survival. The spiritual war involves ideas, thoughts, principals and unseen forces, powers and authorities of darkness through lies, distortions, insanity and evil actions. gender dystopia, climate alarmism, extreme licentiousness, government overreach, hatred of Christianity, abortion, sexual perversion, government corruption, unrestrained crime and drug culture; these are weapons and tools in the Spiritual battles. Our confidence is the battle belongs to the Lord and to Him belongs the victory. “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” (Ephesians 6:12)
Discover more from The Conservative Christian Apologist
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
