{"id":51747,"date":"2025-02-17T20:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T04:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=51747"},"modified":"2025-08-24T13:33:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T20:33:04","slug":"simple-sabotage-field-manual-by-the-united-states-office-of-strategic-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/02\/17\/simple-sabotage-field-manual-by-the-united-states-office-of-strategic-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple Sabotage Field Manual by the United States Office of Strategic Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:120,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/99209d49-9341-436c-aaee-a0b201ba1087&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Book 11 of 2025: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/99209d49-9341-436c-aaee-a0b201ba1087\"><em>Simple Sabotage Field Manual<\/em><\/a> by the United States Office of Strategic Services: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/p>\n<p>A fascinating little World War II artifact that in some ways can still be quite relevant. Sure, much of this is very much of its time, and many of the more specific suggestions are technologically obsolete now. But the broad strokes, and especially the oft-screenshotted section advising office workers on ways to slow down beaurocratic functions, are as useful today as ever. If, of course, you ever happen to find yourself in a situation where an autocratic fascist regime is in power and you have reason and opportunity to do what you can to gum up the works. (Ahem.)<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_3893-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding the Simple Sabotage Field Manual on my iPad\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-51748\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_3893-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_3893-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_3893-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_3893-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_3893-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#x1f4da; 11\/2025: A fascinating little World War II artifact that in some ways can still be quite relevant. &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2049],"tags":[6049,6048],"class_list":["post-51747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","tag-office-of-strategic-services","tag-oss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51747"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52364,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51747\/revisions\/52364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}