Military Axioms

Axioms & Sayings
- THO 18/2/11 I recall a LOT of sayings being tossed around by various tutors of our PCs, such as "Expect a foe to attack when you're least prepared!" and "Avoid war at all costs - - but be ready for it, always, at all costs." (This of course is all Ed, roleplaying these NPCs, and probably paraphrasing real-world military sayings, particularly the British ones that precede American ones by a century or more, such as the Realmsian saying: "Most of our battles are fought where our maps fail," which is a paraphrase of the British in Africa during the Zulu War: "Our forces always seem to engage the enemy in blinding weather, on a hillside, where two maps meet" [and I'm paraphrasing THAT from memory, too].) - Ed 30/7/11 • The best attack is not the mightiest, but the one that strikes when the time is right. • The cost of war is ALWAYS too high. Consider when the cost of not going to war gets higher. • Die not for the throne. Make the throne's foe die instead. • Sharp swords speak louder than pretty words. • We all die, but make every warrior's death count. • Tales of glory change with each telling, but graves are forever. • Fight for good reason only; deathless causes share a habit of dying. • I fight for friends, family, and hearth, not flag. • A banner is only a strip of cloth, a map is only a scrap of hide. Victories are won and held in hearts and minds.