Murphy’s Laws, War, Plans, and “Friendly Fire.”

Donald Trump @therealdonald made a comment during the February 13th #GOPDebate about making a great battle plan, etc., which reminded me of the saying, “No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy.” Looking up the origin, I found that it’s a shortened version of the observation by Field Marshal Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke, a 19th Century German.

More recently, the quote has been incorporated in “Murphy’s Laws of War” as, “No OPLAN ever survives initial contact.”

There’s at least one more Law that seemed to fit the debate last night: “The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire.”