Indian Defence Review

Try to look unimportant; the enemy may be low on ammo and not want to waste a bullet on you.

•    Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than yourself.

•    Never forget that your weapon was made by the lowest bidder.

•    Five second fuses always burn three seconds.

•    The easy way is always mined.

•    Teamwork is essential; it gives the enemy other people to shoot at.

•    If you are short of everything but the enemy, you are in the combat zone.

•    Incoming fire has the right of way.

•    No combat ready unit has ever passed inspection.

•    No inspection ready unit has ever passed combat.

•    If the enemy is within range, so are you.

•    The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire.

•    Tracers work both ways.

•    Professional soldiers are predictable; the world is full of dangerous amateurs.

•    Military Intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

•    Mines are equal opportunity weapons.

•    When in doubt, empty your magazine.

•    The side with the simplest uniforms wins.

•    Combat will occur on the ground between two adjoining maps.

•    The most dangerous thing in the world is a Second Lieutenant with a map and a compass.

•    The more a weapon costs, the farther you will have to send it away to be repaired.

•    The complexity of a weapon is inversely proportional to the IQ of the weapon’s operator.

•    If enough data is collected, a board of inquiry can prove anything.

•    To steal information from a person is called plagiarism. To steal information from the enemy is called gathering intelligence.

•    The weapon that usually jams when you need it the most is the INSAS.

•    The bursting radius of a hand grenade is always one foot greater than your jumping range.

•    The crucial round is a dud.

•    There is no such place as a convenient foxhole.

•    Density of fire increases proportionally to the curiousness of the target.

•    Success occurs when no one is looking, failure occurs when the General is watching.

•    Things that must be together to work can never be sent together.

•    The quartermaster has only two sizes: too large and too small.

•    If you have a personality conflict with your superior: he has the personality, you have the conflict.

•    If you enter the CO’s office with an idea, most likely, you will leave his office with the CO’s idea.