Sabotage

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Sabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction. In war, the word is used to describe the activity of an individual or group not associated with the military (such as a foreign agent or an indigenous supporter), in particular when actions results in the destruction or damaging of a productive or vital facility, such as equipment, factories, dams, public services, or supplies storage. Unlike acts of terrorism, acts of sabotage do not have a primary objective of causing casualties (but does not exclude this). Saboteurs are usually classified as unlawful enemy combatants.

The name derives from the early industrial age, when powered looms could be damaged by the wooden shoes (known in French as sabots) of the displaced weavers (proto-saboteurs) being thrown into the machinery. Literally it means, "to clatter in sabots".

One of the tasks of security guards is the prevention and detection of sabotage.

See also: guerrilla warfare, terrorism

Contents 1 External Links, Resources, and References 1.1 Rock album 1.2 Movie 2 Further Reading 2.1 References

External Links, Resources, and References

• Central Intelligence Agency sabotage manual
• Ozymandias Sabotage Handbook
• Employee Sabotage
• Brian Martin, Sabotage, Nonviolence versus Capitalism [PDF]

Rock album

Sabotage is also the name of an early Black Sabbath album, see Sabotage (album).

Movie

Sabotage is also the name of a British film directed by Sir Alfred Hitchcock in 1936

Further Reading

• Thomas C. Reed, aka Thomas Reed, At the Abyss: An Insider's History of the Cold War, Ballantine, March 9, 2004, hardcover, ISBN 0891418210

References

• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Sabotage" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabotage, used under the GNU Free Documentation License