Murphy's Laws of Combat By Maj. Mark Cancian, Harvard´s Kennedy School of Government Professor. 1. You are not supermen. (Freshly graduated recruits from Marine boot camp and all fighter pilots, especially take note). 2. Suppressive fires-won´t. 3. If it´s stupid but works, it isn´t stupid. 4. Don´t look conspicuous-it draws fire. (For this reason aircraft carriers have been dubbed "bomb magnets"). 5. When in doubt, empty the magazine. 6. Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you are. 7. Never forget your weapon was made by the lowest bidder. 8. If your attack is going really well, it´s an ambush. 9. No plan survives the first contact intact. 10. All five-second grenade fuzes will burn down in three seconds. 11. Try to look unimportant, because the bad guys may be low on ammo. (Trivia devotees will recall the sudden disappearance of rank distinctive caps on the uniforms worn by Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan). 12. If you are forward of your position, the artillery will fall short. 13. The enemy diversion you are ignoring is the main attack. 14. The important things are always simple. 15. The simple things are always hard. 16. The easy way is always mined. 17. If you are short of everything except enemy, you are in combat. 18. When you are secured an area, don´t forget to tell the enemy. 19. Incoming fire has always the right-of-way. 20. No combat ready-unit has ever passed inspection. (Note: No Marine unit has ever failed a combat-readiness inspection, which suggests peacetime inspections are to readiness as junk food is to cuisine). 21. If the enemy is in range, SO ARE YOU. 22. Beer math is 2 beers times 37 men equals 49 cases. 23. Body-count math is 3 guerrillas plus 1 probable plus 2 pigs equals 37 enemy killed in action. 24. Friendly fire--isn´t. 25. Things that must be together to work usually can´t be shipped together. 26. 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). 27. Anything you do can get you shot--including doing nothing. 28. Make it too tough for the enemy to get in, and you can´t get out (This seems to be guiding design principle behind the Soviets´BMP and our own Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle, both of which nicely package the troops in armored boxes for group destruction). 29. Tracers work BOTH ways. 30. The only thing more accurate then incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire. 31. If you take more than your fair share of objectives, you will have more than your fair share to take. 32. When both sides are convinced they are about to lose, they´re both right. 33. Professional soldiers are predictable, but the world is full of amateurs. 34. Murphy was a grunt.   There you have it, a phenomenal amount of wisdom and combat savvy on one page. But.. Can we do even better? Can we distill everything, from Sun Tzu to Murphy, into a one-line predictor of victory or defeat? I think so, and in fact I stand in awe of Marine Reserve Maj. Mark Cancian, who now directs studies on Defense matters at Harvard´s Kennedy School of Government. Shortly before he let active duty a few years ago, Cancian reduced man´s entire knowledge of war into this dictum: "The side with the simplest uniforms wins".

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