Even pure violence requires information about targets’ property and location

Evidence

The possibility of retaliation is itself grounded in information. Even if we could easily resort to violence as a deterrent and discounted milder forms of retaliation, we would still need information about the parries’ property and whereabouts to know where to direct our violence. — Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Business of…, 95

Categorization

• XREF: Complements Schelling: credible commitment needs not just capability but targeting knowledge — information is a precondition for coercion working at all. — connects to: the MOC “The Violence That Builds: How Modern Order Is Forged, Not Broken, by Force”