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Counter-Surveillance: Civilian Guide
How you (without CIA or military resources) can use operative-grade awareness and tradecraft to detect and deter...
Handshake ‘Threat Assessment’ Method
Rapidly gauging an individual’s physical capability, intent, and immediate threat level from a handshake – to get...
Street-Level ‘Hostile Intent’ Indicators
This is covert operative street smarts tuned for everyday people who walk to the bodega, catch a...
Urban Movement Geometry
A number-free mental math method for moving through cities like a covert operative. Fast decisions, no spreadsheets,...
Manipulating Your Enemy’s Decision-Making Cycle
When you’re up against a capable adversary, winning may need more than tactics – time. Whoever controls...
Securing an Insecure Hotel Room
A tradecraft focused, technical guide to harden an unsafe, rundown or dangerously located hotel without special equipment....
Pursuing Your Life Goals Like They’re Covert Operations
The civilian’s tradecraft guide to perceiving, planning and achieving life goals the same way covert operations are....
Counter-Tracking: Skillset Guide
The tradecraft of being untrackable. Detecting when you’re being followed, reducing your signature, deceiving or disrupting hostile...
Identity ‘Burn’ Protocol: Ending a Cover, Starting Another
The dismantling of a compromised cover identity, immediately followed by switching to a prepared alias to maintain...
The Persuasion Kill Chain
A structured tradecraft method of influence that moves a target from initial contact to decisive commitment with...
Martial Law: Survival Guide
The covert operative’s civilian guide to living, surviving, thriving and operating in an urban environment while martial...