Simple Sabotage Field Manual

Originally published in 1944 by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the precursor to the CIA, Simple Sabotage Field Manual is a fascinating relic of wartime strategy — and a surprisingly relevant guide to disruption in today’s world.

Written to help everyday citizens in enemy-occupied territories undermine Axis powers during World War II, this manual is a step-by-step guide on how to slow down organizations, sabotage meetings, and create confusion using seemingly harmless behaviors. From misfiling documents to endlessly debating trivial matters, the tactics are subtle, clever, and surprisingly familiar to anyone who's worked in a slow-moving bureaucracy.

Part history, part psychology, and part dark comedy, this short but striking manual offers readers a glimpse into the power of everyday resistance — and a wink at just how easy it is to break a system from the inside.