... is when small groups with little support use terror tactics to appear bigger and more important than they really are. The dockland bombings in London are also an example for another terror tactic. This is using indiscriminate bombing to undermine the will and morale of a community. This also links in with the tactic of using terrorism to undermine people's confidence in their government and in the forces of law and order to destabilize a country. Terror tactics are also used in large wars to gain short term aims as well as increasing government reaction and destabilization of a government. An example of this is the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima, 6th August 1945. This was done by the American government to bring the war to an end and as revenge for Pearl Harbour. Kidnapping and assassinating representatives of a state is a terrorist tactic. This tactic is used to get ...

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