A country can be brought to a state of crisis, the third step, in as short of time as six weeks.
It is well known what followed soon after the 9/11 attacks. A program of [[regime change]] operations across the [[Middle East]], with varying tactics deployed. Full on attack and invasion in the case of [[Afghan war]] and [[Iraq war]]. The [[NATO war in Libya]] and [[proxy war|proxy combatants in the [[Syrian war]], sanctions and other financial instruments of [[war]] as a constant meanwhile. All overt and covert attacks were also complemented by an enormous effort regarding enhanced psychological operations which incorporated a now compliant [[mass media]]. This latter directed mainly at [[Western civilization|Western populations]] themselves through things like the [[Patriot Act]] and [[FISA 702]], the purported benefactors of the full spectrum dominance project initiated after 9/11.
===Normalization===