- Create micro conflicts in various parts of the globe, keeping them alive and monitored (false revolutions, large attacks, confrontations between different political and religious factions).
- Raise the tension in a specific country when it seems to get away from the purpose to maintain a united military block.
- Increase the offensive potential by approaching the opponent’s boundaries in certain parts of the world with highly specialized troops.
- Carry out cyber attacks to test the opponent’s defenses.
- Send false and contrived information to mystify the truth.
- Leading to mixed messages.
- Create a general climate of uncertainty that does arise the need for strong powers.
- Do artful provocations to give birth to a casus belli.
- Wait for events that will spring the war.