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The whole point of asymmetrical warfare is to get your enemy to spend very large amounts of resources to defeat attacks that cost you very little: the more they win battles, the more they lose the war. Spending ten million dollars to kill a few random guerrillas on the other side of the globe from anything you care about might technically be a victory, but it's actually a loss.

Terrorism just takes this to an extreme: get your enemy to spend very large amounts of resources to defeat attacks that don't even exist, and even to spend resources fighting itself. The economical damage you can cause this way is orders of magnitude above and beyond what you can do with actual bombs.

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