All great leaders since Prophet Moses (PBUH) have known that a feared enemy must be crushed completely. (Sometimes they have learned 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 will seek revenge. Crush him, not only in body but in spirit.

1. Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally
All great leaders since Prophet Moses
(PBUH) have known that a feared enemy
must be crushed completely. (Sometimes
they have learned 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 will seek
revenge. Crush him, not only in body but
in spirit.
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3. Your enemy will bide his time and strike back when you
least expect.
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4. They may act friendly for the time being, but they will
eventually destroy you
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5. You only strengthen their fear and hatred of you.
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6. Do not humiliate, yet nurture these resentful vipers who will
one day kill you.
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7. 4. GIVE YOUR
ENEMIES
NOTHING TO
NEGOTIATE, NO
HOPE, NO ROOM
TO MANEUVER
(CONT.)
▪ This is all the truer with a former friend who has
become an enemy. The law governing fatal
antagonisms reads: Reconciliation is out of the
question. You must exterminate, crush, and deny
them the chance to return to haunt you.
▪ Such is the case of Hsiang Yu and his enemy Liu
Pang. Hsiang had proven his ruthlessness on
many an occasion, but with Liu Pang he acted
differently. Every time he had his rival in his
hands, something made him hesitate—a fatal
sympathy or respect for the man who had once
been a friend and comrade in arms. But the
moment Hsiang made it clear that he intended to
do away with Liu, yet failed to accomplish it, he
sealed his own doom.
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8. 4. GIVE YOUR
ENEMIES
NOTHING TO
NEGOTIATE, NO
HOPE, NO ROOM
TO MANEUVER
(CONT.)
▪ Liu would not suffer the same hesitation once the
tables were turned. Now Hsiang Yu was on the
run from Liu and when he came upon a small
group of his own retreating soldiers, he cried
out, "I hear Liu Pang has offered one thousand
pieces of gold and a fief of ten thousand families
for his head. Let me do you a favor." He then slits
his own throat and dies.
▪ It is not, of course, a question of murder, it is a
question of banishment. Sufficiently weakened
and then exiled from your world, your enemies
are rendered harmless.
▪ They have no hope of recovering, insinuating
themselves and hurting you. And if they cannot
be banished, at least understand that they are
plotting against you, and pay no heed to
whatever friendliness they feign.
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Leave your enemy an escape route. A
retreat is the ultimate demoralizing
defeat.Let them be the agents of their
own destruction.The result will be the
same.
The risk of crushing an enemy is you
embitter them so much so that they
spend years and years plotting
revenge. Do not let your guard down,
but simply crush them again.