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1. At all cost you must gain control of the impulse to fight your opponents directly. Instead occupy their flank. 2. Find their flank--the support people crave, the kindness they will respond to, the favor that will disarm them. 3. Start by seeming to take your opponents' side on some issue, occupying their flank. 4. Take the center position, it can be physical-an actual place - OR more subtle and psychological--and the enemy will naturally break into parts, trying to hit you from more than one side. These smaller parts are now manageable, can be defeated in detail or forced to divide again. And once something large is divided, it is prone to further division to being splintered into nothingness. 5. The wisest course is to take a risk, meet the enemy before it comes to you, and try to blunt its momentum by forcing or enticing it to divide. And the best way to make a enemy divide is to occupy the center. 6. Distract your opponents' attention to the front, then attack t

When you look at your enemies, do not be intimidated by their appearance. Instead look at the parts that make up the whole. By separating the parts, sowing dissension and division from within, you can weaken and bring down even the most formidable foe. In setting up your attack, work on their minds to create internal conflict. Look for the joints and links, the things that connect the people in a group or connect one group to another. Division is weakness, and the joints are the weakest part of any structure. When you are facing troubles or enemies, turn a large problem into small, eminently defeatable parts. There were, however,many occasions when the French were faced not by one but by two or a whole series of enemy armies within supporting distance of one another. Faced with such a difficult situation, Napoleon often adopted a second system of maneuver--the "strategy of the central position." Very often under these circumstances the French found themselves operatin