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[Star Wars] Was Tarkin deliberately weakening the Empire with the Tarkin doctrine?

Deliberately causing unrest though fear and terror that will drive the large portion of the galaxy towards rebellion and supporting the development and construction of weapons of mass destruction that will have hardly any usefulness, but will eat up ridiculously large amounts of resources seems like a very foolish thing to do. Unless of course Your aim is to destroy an Empire.
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Tarkin thought that the empire could rule more easily and with less objection if civilians feared them. Of course we know that this fear and terror regime would push more system to fight back, but he thought that it would control them. So no he wasn't deliberately weakening the Empire, but his actions did help lead to its fall.