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Originally Posted by DeltAlum
As for picking the smaller targets, that may make some sense from a military standpoint, but not from a PR angle.
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True - the public reaction of hitting a high-profile or value target is also a strategic consideration in a terror campaign... but it depends on what the goal of the terror campaign is: to erode public support for a government's policies through fear, to provoke a "hard" response and escalation of the underlying conflict, to achieve specific goals through the elimination of specific targets, or just to inflict terror through atrocity without any long term goal.
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