ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the ways in which the Lords Resistance Army (LRA) has created a climate of fear and attempts to provide an explanation for why it has done so. The consequence of the LRA's unique strategy is that neither counter-insurgency nor counter-terror techniques will provide an adequate response; instead new and specialized tactical and strategic responses must be developed to combat it. The term dirty war is most often used to describe campaigns of state-sponsored terror and repression whose goal is to suppress suspected civilian resistance. The description of LRA operations depicted demonstrates that it is fighting a dirty war affording it a strategic control over the population of northern Uganda. The chapter examines how the LRA has used fear in its conflict. It illustrates why the LRA has created a climate of fear in northern Uganda. The LRAs dirty war strategy fundamentally separated from insurgencies and terrorist groups and considers it an essentially different form of asymmetric warfare.
