The Psychology of Discipline and Morale

In an insurgency sparked and sustained by an opponent who is dressed in civilian clothes, but shoots and blows him up unseen, suspicion alone takes a vicious turn. When he sees his comrades being killed by innocent looking civilians, he gets into a rage and anger against the uncertainty and the unseen. At that point, his pent-up tension, welling feeling of helplessness and burning desire to explode into a release of counter-violence are in frantic search of a tangible object he can master. What better object than a frightened, weak, countering woman, an unguarded, wide-open shop, an unresisting defenseless house and its feeble occupants who shelter the unseen deceitful opponent had