I would have said that it was an act carried out with the simple aim of causing terror and usually are carried not just with disregard for human life but with the idea that the more carnage the better (it creates more terror).
As a general rule I think that rules most military operations out because they almost always have clear military goals and civilian damage is collateral but there are weapons that are designed to primarily terrorise (the WW2 German Stuka Dive Bomber would be an exmaple because it caused relatively little damage, was hopelessly inaccurate but it's screaming engines scared the living sh** out of those it attacked, the V1 & V2's are also accepted to be weapons of terror as far as I know).
Kyu
As a general rule I think that rules most military operations out because they almost always have clear military goals and civilian damage is collateral but there are weapons that are designed to primarily terrorise (the WW2 German Stuka Dive Bomber would be an exmaple because it caused relatively little damage, was hopelessly inaccurate but it's screaming engines scared the living sh** out of those it attacked, the V1 & V2's are also accepted to be weapons of terror as far as I know).
Kyu
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