Tactics reveal the colonizer's motivation, answering the question “what needs to be done right now?” within the overall colonial project. A tactical goal may be, for example, strengthening the colonizer's position in a given territory (the consolidation tactic) or creating the impression that the colonial order is lawful and natural (the legitimization of domination tactic). Techniques are used to achieve tactical goals.
| ID | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| TA0001 | Legitimization of Domination | The aggressor constructs ideological, historical, and legal justifications for its "right" to dispose of the fate of the colonized people. The techniques of this tactic operate before, during, and after the seizure: imposing an image of backwardness, appropriating history, and deploying religious and "civilizing" pretexts build a worldview in which domination appears natural and even beneficial. Successful legitimization reduces resistance – both from the people themselves and from outside observers. |
| TA0002 | Preparation for Seizure | Actions that create the conditions for a future seizure: reconnaissance, buying up elites, media, and assets, creating economic and military dependencies, treaties with hidden agendas, infiltration of institutions. At this stage the aggressor does not yet control the territory, but is already undermining its capacity for independent existence and self-defense. |
| TA0003 | Seizure of Governance | Establishing control over the political institutions of the colonized people: from military intervention and annexation to puppet administrations and sham treaties. The goal is to replace the people's agency with external rule, retaining decorative local forms where convenient. |
| TA0004 | Defense Impairment | Undermining the collective capacity to resist: physical destruction and deportation of elites, disarmament, repression of the opposition, dismantling of autonomous institutions – the army, the church, self-government, education. The instruments of collective defense and self-organization are eroded. |
| TA0005 | Persistence | Reshaping the seized space for long-term control: settler colonialism, redrawing of administrative-territorial boundaries, Russification of education and toponymy, rewriting of history and control of memory. The goal is to make a return to independent existence unthinkable for the next generations. |
| TA0006 | Extraction of Benefits | Systematic exploitation of the colony's resources: natural wealth, labor, human and cultural capital, territory. This includes forced mobilization into the aggressor's army, removal of valuables, and appropriation of achievements – the colony exists as a resource base for the metropole, not as a subject of its own development. |