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Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Tools for Coping: Simple Sabotage Field Manual

  Here is a link to a Project Gutenberg book by the C.I.A., called Simple Sabotage Field Manual. Ag mentioned it a few days ago, but I'm giving it it's own post.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184?ref=404media.co

Here's a summary from Project Gutenberg;

"Simple Sabotage Field Manual" by United States. Office of Strategic Services is a historical publication written during the early 1940s, amid World War II. This manual acts as a guide for ordinary civilians to conduct simple acts of sabotage against enemy operations without the need for specialized training or equipment. Its main topic revolves around promoting small, accessible forms of resistance that could collectively disrupt the enemy's war effort. The manual outlines various strategies and techniques for citizens to engage in sabotage that could be executed discreetly and with minimal risk. It provides specific suggestions for targeting transportation, communication, and industrial facilities to create delays and inefficiencies in enemy operations. The manual emphasizes the power of many individuals acting independently to contribute to a larger campaign of disruption, encouraging simple acts such as misplacing tools, delaying communication, or damaging equipment with household items. Overall, the "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" serves as a unique historical artifact that illustrates grassroots resistance efforts and the belief in the collective power of ordinary people during wartime. (This is an automatically generated summary.)


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