Sabotage

The deliberate destruction, damage or disruption of property, equipment, infrastructure or a process, typically carried out to hinder a government, military or industrial operation, often in wartime or during a period of civil or labor unrest. As a national security offense it is distinguished from ordinary vandalism or property destruction by the specific intent to impair a state's defense, production or critical infrastructure capability, and it is treated with particular severity when directed at military materiel, transportation networks or utilities during an armed conflict. Historic examples include resistance movement sabotage of enemy rail lines and factories during the Second World War, a use of the tactic that shaped how many countries later defined the offense in peacetime criminal codes covering critical infrastructure.