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Armed forces in many countries use firing squads to maintain discipline and intimidate the masses, or opposition, into submission or silent compliance.

However, there also are nonphysical forms of coercion, where the threatened injury does not immediately imply the use of force.

Byman and Waxman ( 2000 ) define coercion as " the use of threatened force, including the limited use of actual force to back up the threat, to induce an adversary to behave differently than it otherwise would.

" However, coercion does not necessarily amount to destruction.