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Nonviolent Strategies

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The sovereign movement largely remains using nonviolent methods to attack their enemies, the increase in violence attacks and the nonviolent attacks does show the current strategy of the sovereign movement as described by Andrew Kydd & Barbara Walter in their article “The Strategies of Terrorism”. In their article, Kydd & Walters outline five distinctive strategies that can be used to further understand terrorist goals. The five strategies discussed are: attrition, intimidation, outbidding, provocation, and spoiling (Kydd & Walter, 2006). Using the strategies defined by Kydd & Walter, the type of attacks encouraged by the sovereign movement suggest a strategy of attrition with some lone wolf attacks along the lines of provocation. As discussed

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