In the United States Armed Forces fragging (meaning fragmentation grenade, fragmentation grenade) indicates a deliberate action to assassinate another military, especially its commander or another member of the combat body. By extension, the term may be applied to indicate the deliberate manipulation of the command chain obtained through deliberate exposure to a member or unit's perilous situation in order to annihilate it. For example, it may be ordered for a single soldier to take a particularly risky action and expose him repeatedly to similar acts until his death. Stored by wikitesto
The term, coined during the Vietnam War, originally had a definite meaning: it was mainly used to indicate the assassination of unpopular officers by its combat units. To make these murders accidental and conceal the real intentions of the involved military, at the beginning fragmentation grenades were used to simulate a combat action with the enemy.
Subsequently, the term has undergone a semantic slip and with the present meaning it can be applied to any member, from the simple enrolled to the officer, and it is no longer just the graduates, and is no longer concerned only with deliberate action directed by a military body subject. Bibliografiamodifica wikitesto
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