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sabotage

Also known as act of sabotage

Sabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening a polity, government, effort, or organization through subversion, obstruction, demoralization, destabilization, division, disruption, or destruction. One who engages in sabotage is a saboteur. Saboteurs typically try to conceal their identities because of the consequences of their actions and to avoid invoking legal and organizational requirements for addressing sabotage.

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Sabotage is a deliberate action taken to weaken a government, organization, or effort by undermining it from within through tactics like obstruction, disruption, or destruction. It matters because saboteurs work to hide their identities to avoid legal consequences and accountability, making such actions difficult to detect and stop.

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Commons category: Sabotage

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Etymology
As industrial action
As environmental action
As war tactic
Value of simple sabotage in wartime
In World War I
Post World War I
In World War II
After World War II
In Cyprus
In Vietnam
During the Cold War
As crime
As political action
In a coup d'état
Derivative usages
Sabotage radio
Cybotage
Counter-sabotage
In World War II
21st-century examples
Self-sabotage
See also
Notes
References
External links

== Etymology == The English word derives from the French word , meaning to "bungle, botch, wreck or sabotage"; it was originally used to refer to labour disputes, in which workers wearing wooden shoes called interrupted production through different means. A popular but incorrect account of the origin of the term's present meaning is the story that poor workers in the Belgian city of Liège would throw a wooden into the machines to disrupt production.