Why is the Tarkin Doctrine considered strategically flawed?
Short answerIt is a brutally inefficient strategy that turns a potentially compliant galaxy into an actively resistant one.
NotesStar Wars politics provides a fictional strategic case study rather than an account of real history. The galaxy might have accepted the Empire as a renamed continuation of the Republic after the Clone Wars. Slavery, anti-alien policy, mass coercion, and spectacular violence instead made Imperial rule personally threatening to much of the population. The Tarkin Doctrine is shortsighted because its attempt to deter opposition creates the hostility and organized resistance it was meant to prevent.