Divide
To split
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It's Jha'dur's favorite military strategy - she splits off her forces, uses ambushes, every trick in the book to split and divide the defending forces, relying on her troops superior discipline to coordinate strategies and attack a disparate and confused enemy.
Source: Fan Fic / The Dilgar War -
Divide and Conquer: The Mountain Men recognize that the danger comes from the union of Clarke's motivation and planning with Lexa's numbers and martial might, so they work to split the alliance between the Ark and the Grounders.
Source: Series / The 100 -
In Wizardry: Bane of the Cosmic Forge, one NPC is a moderately evil wizard who wished on the Cosmic Forge that "I shall know everything." The artifact's solution to the trope was to split him into two consciousnesses and divide the knowledge between them.
Source: My Skull Runneth Over
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