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Acts of Sabotage in Russia and Eurasia, 2022 to 2026
Sabotage has been one of the defining features of the Russia-Ukraine war since the full-scale invasion of February 2022, and increasingly of Russia’s broader confrontation with Europe. What began as targeted Ukrainian strikes on Russian logistics has evolved into a bi-directional sabotage campaign spanning from the Russian Far East to the railways of Poland. This…
OSS Simple Sabotage Manual: A Guide to Covert Disruption
// Updated August 2026 The CIA declassified the full Simple Sabotage Field Manual in 2008. It remains freely available through the agency reading room and Project Gutenberg. Two things keep it in circulation. Its organizational sabotage section now reads as a diagnostic for institutional dysfunction and is cited in management literature, while the infrastructure methods…
Operation Gunnerside: The Mission That Changed the Course of World War II
Operation Gunnerside stands as one of the most consequential acts of sabotage in the history of warfare. On the night of February 27 to 28, 1943, nine Norwegian commandos infiltrated the heavily guarded Vemork hydroelectric plant in Telemark, Norway, and destroyed the sole industrial-scale facility producing heavy water for Nazi Germany’s nuclear weapons program, without…