Siembra incertidumbre y pánico con actos de terror: Estrategia de reacción en cadena

SOW UNCERTAINTY AND PANIC
THROUGH ACTS OF TERROR
THE CHAIN-REACTION STRATEGY

Terror is the ultimate way to paralyze a people's will
to resist and destroy their ability to plan a strategic
response. Such power is gained through sporadic
acts of violence that create a constant feeling of
threat, incubating a fear that spreads throughout the
public sphere. The goal in a terror campaign is not
battlefield victory but causing maximum chaos and
provoking the other side into desperate
overreaction. Melting invisibly into the population,
tailoring their actions for the mass media, the
strategists of terror create the illusion that they are
everywhere and therefore that they are far more
powerful than they really are. It is a war of nerves.
The victims of terror must not succumb to fear or
even anger; to plot the most effective
counterstrategy, they must stay balanced. In the face
of a terror campaign, one's rationality is the last line
of defense.
Robert Greene


The basis of Mongol warfare was unadulterated
terror. Massacre, rapine and torture were the
price of defeat, whether enforced or
negotiated.... The whole apparatus of terror was
remorselessly applied to sap the victim's will to
resist, and in practical terms this policy of
"frightfulness" certainly paid short-term
dividends. Whole armies were known to
dissolve into fear-ridden fragments at the news
of the approach of the toumans .... Many
enemies were paralysed...before a [Mongol]
army crossed their frontiers.
THE ART OF WARFARE ON LAND, DAVID
CHANDLER, 1974