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The Assyrians were accomplished psychological warfare experts. Commanders keenly understood and readily deployed terror tactics designed to strike fear into opponents and potential adversaries. The tactics used were often extreme and brutal. Those tactics included killing every living person and thing when entering a city; taking thousands of captives and burning them alive; when captives were not killed, they were kept as slaves in humiliating and brutal circumstances or forced to resettle in foreign lands. Captives were often used as human shields on the battle field as well. It is widely thought in academic circles, the Assyrian empire used terror tactics to administer its vast empire, which eventually led to conquered regions uniting and bringing down the empire.

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