Energize in the sense of being more afraid and more angry, and thus even MORE stupid! Exposing and revealing themselves, their motives, their methods, their assistants and so on and so forth.
One strategy is an attack so as to get the enemy to reveal all those things. Like throwing a stone at a yellow jacket nest in the ground to see how many in it, where more are coming from, if they have two or more holes, etc.
Agreed.