Napoleon’s Fatal Knot

Karen Barna
6 min readMar 26, 2021
Napoleon accepting the surrender of Madrid during the Peninsular War

How gang stalking and electronic targeted assaults/torture can be applied to the art of guerrilla warfare

If asked how to cope with a great host of the enemy in orderly array and on the point of marching to the attack, I should say: “Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will.” ~Sun Tzu, The Art of War

My thesis is that domestic violence (DM) and intimate partner violence (IPV) when combined with gang stalking and electronic targeted assaults/torture act like a form of guerilla warfare. Here are some key main points of compound guerilla warfare as they can be applied to the compounding effects of DM, IPV, gang stalking, mind control, and electronic targeted assaults/torture:

1. It mimics what Napoleon called “The Fatal Knot” in that when the three above-mentioned forms of violence act and complement one another as a form of compound warfare, a form of guerilla attacks take place as the superior power invades the less power’s territory.

2. Once the greater power’s forces are distributed over the lesser power’s territory, the lesser power is then in a position to conduct compound warfare. That is, guerrilla warfare tactics. However, since I am the “lesser power” and I live in the civilian sector and not a designated “war zone,” my weapon is my pen. This is my sword of choice, and thus, “the fatal knot” has not only conquered me already but has re-directed my behavior towards the study of the phenomena known as the Targeted Individual. In this way, I have acquired advantages in the acquisition of intelligence information about the suppressing enemy’s psychology in the form of forensic analysis. Since part of the control of warfare is also suppressing any type of superior intelligence information that may be acquired, forms of gaslighting, gang stalking, and perspecticide are used to discredit any intelligence information through the imposition of fear, confusion, and influence. When this is done effectively any intelligence conveyed by the opposing power will be made to sound uncreditable. This is an important aspect: since the use of electronic targeted assaults to the mind cause the person to lose a stable perspective, the weaker territory starts to draw into the discussion “alien conspiracy theories” and past mind control experiments conducting by the federal government (MKUltra). Discussing irrelevant past history should be avoided and the focus of the discussion should be on forensic psychoanalysis of the assaults and the use of military science tactics (like psych-ops) to describe and analyze how forms of violence are being utilized as forms of mind control. This is the compounding effect of electronic targeted assaults to the body and mind. Long-term violence (abuse) can and does absolutely change behavior and even personality. We have a lot of creditable psychoanalytic research that has been drawn from the detrimental side-effects of war.

3. The term “compound” is used because when there are two or more different force elements (forms of violence) in play that complement, compound, or facilitate the effects of war in synergetic movement, the Compound Warfare Operator increases his advantage by using all of his assets in more than just one way. Thus, physical, emotional, sexual, and electronic assaults compound the interplay of the warfare and can degrade the effectiveness of the lesser territory in eliminating their enemy.

4. The Compound Warfare Operator increases his military leverage by applying all conventional force (violence) and un-conventional force (violence) at his disposal. As such, we can apply the term “coercive control” to strategic operations when enemies’ lines of communication (cyber-attacks) are compromised and cognitive thinking can be degraded through psych-ops and propaganda, and when their travel routes are compromised or blocked by the superior power, all are examples of coercive control by enemy forces. Thus, by greatly increasing the security problems faced by his enemy, the Compound Warfare Operator gains a disproportionate footing over his adversary. This is certainly the “invisible” form power can take. We could describe cyberwarfare and Stuxnet as a form of an “invisible empire” playing outside of the physical world and inside the invisible spaces of electronic communications. The East German Secret Police known as the Stasi accomplished destabilization they termed “Zersetzung” (also called “corrosion”) through warfare tactics that monopolized on frightening and unnerving their problematic political dissidents. Once you psychologically affected a person through a form of destabilization, a form of mind control does actually take place.

4. The Compound Warfare Operator usually means the overall commander in a Compound Warfare struggle who effectively directs the movement, tone, and characteristics of the conflict.

5. Another key point to compound warfare is when a minor power’s territory is occupied by an intervening major power. This is exactly what is carried out with electronic targeted assaults/torture to the physical body and mind. When this happens, usually one territory will not be disposed to, or succeed in, because their forces are superior to that of the weaker territory.

6. One of the advantages to compound warfare is that it pressures the enemy to move and relocate himself and his troops. This is one of the aspects to gang stalking and electronic targeted assaults/torture as people have actually re-located to escape the persecution of the attacks.

7. When the electronic targeted assaults/torture are removed the superior power will face collapse. The Peninsular war (The Fatal Knot) proved a major disaster for France. Napoleon did well when he was in direct charge, but severe losses followed his departure, as he severely underestimated how much manpower would be needed. The effort in Spain was a drain on money, manpower, and prestige. Historian David Gates called it the “Spanish ulcer.” Following in similar suit, the Vietnam war of 1965–1973 allowed for the collapse of South Vietnam which was just a construct lacking organic power. When the U.S. withdrew its troops the fall of South Vietnam became eminent (The Fatal Knot).

Through the lens of psychoanalysis, one must ask the question of the person carrying out gang stalking and electronic targeted assaults/torture (e.g. the Compound Warfare Operator), “What are the reasons and motivations for his actions?” We can understand his actions belonging to the primal scene symbolic fantasy of castration in psychoanalysis, but what is motivating the enemy’s actions against the lesser power? That is, what does he hope to accomplish by carrying out the conflict? Francois Rabelais wrote in “Gargantua and Pantagruel” (1532) that, “Coin is the sinews of war.” Is his motivation money? Is his motivation territory? Is his motivation political power? Is his motivation revenge? What are his motivations in the conflict?

The long history of warfare is replete with instances where regular forces and irregular forces have been used together. In some cases, the outcomes of these conflicts have seemed to defy analysis because weak forces have defeated strong ones and because victory in battle has not led to victory in war. Two examples of “The Fatal Knot” are the Napoleonic Spanish War (1808–1814) and the Vietnam War (1965–1973).

As a model of compound warfare, gang stalking and electronic targeted assaults/torture of the Targeted Individual combine together to act more effectively than if the Compound Warfare Operator utilized just one of his assets, and since enormous variety acts in all the different historical wars, every case of gang stalking and electronic targeted assaults/torture must be evaluated to gain a full perspective on each individual conflict.

This analysis may make absolutely no sense to some students of military history but it is the best description I have inferred regarding electronic targeted assaults, gang stalking, and mind control the Targeted Individual claims to be suffering.

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Karen Barna

I am a Targeted Individual suffering electronic harassment. I write about gender difference and object relations and feminism. I am Gen. X