Wag the dog

For other uses, see Wag the Dog (disambiguation).

Wag the dog is a political term for the act of creating a diversion from a damaging issue usually through military force. The metaphor originally referred to an important or powerful entity (the dog) being controlled by a less important one (the tail). It later became used to describe a type of diversionary foreign policy where military action is used to distract from other issues.

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