Ways to 'Divide and Conquer' — VOA Learning English
Topics: суспільство
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On today’s show, we talk about a strategy for winning or for completing a big task. That strategy is called dividing and conquering.
With this strategy, you gain an advantage by creating divisions within a group. You might try to turn your enemies against each other. You try to keep control over a group of people by creating problems among them. You could also make a group of people disagree and fight with one another. When you do this, they will likely be too busy fighting each other to think about fighting you.
For example, the police detectives tried to divide and conquer warring drug dealers. The drug dealers were so busy…
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