An idea from The Art of War

A good army acts like a certain mountain snake: strike its head and the tail attacks, strike its tail and the head attacks. Even the men of Wu and Yüeh, who hate each other, will help each other when a storm catches them in the same boat.

From The Art of War by Sun Tzu

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