Chanakya Strategy Coach
Disruption
Day 19
Dividing Your Enemies
Chanakya's advice on splitting up your enemies depends on the situation: it's fair game against an unjust group working together, and it's always better than a direct fight. In today's terms, this means finding the different interests hiding inside a group that opposes you, and bringing them out into the open. Put plainly: point out that the people lined up against you don't actually agree with each other.
Reflection
Are there alliances opposing you that are held together more by mutual convenience than genuine agreement? What are the fracture lines?
Today's Practice
Map the people or interests opposing your most important goal. For each relationship between them, ask: what are they actually disagreeing about that they haven't said?
Arthashastra 7.17