The Concise Laws of Power

Crush your Enemy Totally

All great leaders since Moses have known that a feared enemy must be crushed completely.  Sometimes they have learnt this the hard way if one ember is left alight no matter how dimly it smolders a fire will eventually break out more is lost through stopping halfway than through total annihilation the enemy will recover and we will seek revenge crushing not only in body but in spirit in your struggle for power instead of rivalries and great enemies there will be people you cannot win over who will remain your enemies no matter what search any means which means there's nothing they want more than to eliminate him if in your struggles with them will stop off or even three quarters of the way out of Messi or hope of reconciliation you will only make them more determined more and be tired and they will Sunday take revenge they may act friendly for the time being but this is only because you have defeated them they have no choice but to bide their time the solution have no mercy do not take their hatred personally crush your enemies as totally as they will crush you ultimately the only peace and security you can hope for from your enemies is their disappearance Mao TSE Tung new the importance of this law in 1930 for the Communist leader and some 75,000 poorly-equipped soldiers fled into the desert mountains of western China to escape Chiang Kai Shek's much larger Army in Chiangwas determined to eliminate every last communist and buy a few years later Mao had less than 10,000 soldiers left by 1937 in fact when China was invaded by Japan Chiang calculated that the communists were no longer a threat he chose to give up the chairs and concentrate on the Japanese ten years later the communists had recovered enough to rout Chiang's Army Chiang had forgotten the wisdom of crushing the enemy Mao had not Chiang was pursued until in and is entirely fled to the island of Taiwan nothing a means of religion in mainland China to this day the goal of totally prison axiom of modern warfare and was codified as such by Carl von Clausewitz the premier philosophy of war analysing the campaigns of Napoleon born classmates Ruth with the new claim that direct animation of the enemies forces must always be the dominant conservation once in middlewich police activity must be no talk of rest or breathing space but only of the pursuit going for the enemy again season is Carpenter attacking his reserves and anything else that might give his country aid and comfort the reason for this is that after work on negotiation and a division of territory if you have only won a partial victory in a bit in a mini news in negotiation what you have gained by what the solution is simple allow your enemies no options and he let them and their territory is used to carve the goal of powers to take control your enemies completely to make them will be your will you cannot afford to go out for if they have no options they will be forced to be your guiding this law has applications far beyond the battlefield negotiation is the inside the house viper that will eat away at your victory so give you any missed nothing to negotiate no egg no room to maneuver they are crossed and that is that the realistic if you are not in place with your enemies you will never be secure and if you are not in a position to do a way with them or banning them from your presence at least understand that they are plotting against you a know it to whatever friendliness day when you're only weapon in such a situation is your own wariness if I were crushed beneath your food but left a library up and bite him with a double dose of Valium and Emily that is left around is like a half-dead wiper that you nursed back to health Times make the Venom grow stronger for it must be noted that man must either be care or else and let them they will revert themselves for small injuries but cannot do so for going to ask the engineer for that will do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance