The use of decoy munitions must be common in war; what interested me especially was the term, which sounds so much of those times: religious sects sprang up in 19th C. US like watermelon in the summertime.

[edit: someone is bound to write that the Quakers predate the 19th C., and if they do, I'll have to give it to them, as I don't know, myself. I vouch only for the accuracy of the account of my experience reading the term.]