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Tradecraft
Handshake ‘Threat Assessment’ Method
Rapidly gauging an individual’s physical capability, intent, and immediate threat level from a handshake – to get...
Manipulating Your Enemy’s Decision-Making Cycle
When you’re up against a capable adversary, winning may need more than tactics – time. Whoever controls...
The Persuasion Kill Chain
A structured tradecraft method of influence that moves a target from initial contact to decisive commitment with...
The Trick to Being Stealthy
Stealth, whether operational or everyday, is fundamentally an exercise in strategic subtraction. The deliberate removal of signals, signatures,...
Distorting the Enemy’s Reality
When you can’t outgun your enemy, you outthink them. One way is to make them chase and...
Using Mistrust as Leverage When Trust Isn’t an Option
The tradecraft of using a target’s mistrust to control their behavior through predictable consequences and structured manipulation,...
Layered Verbal Encoding: Two-Tier Conversational Camouflage
The skill of speaking in two simultaneous messages. One innocuous for anyone listening, and one covert for...
How to Develop Hunches Like a Covert Operative
Operatives know the most valuable intel often comes from something you can’t quite explain – that quiet...
Urban Cover Pulse Mapping: Timing Your Moves to Disappear
The tradecraft practice of syncing your movements with a city’s natural rhythms, like transit surges, market spikes,...
Intent Misdirection Layering: A Fog for Your Real Objective
A tradecraft deception method where an operative creates multiple believable mission narratives through movements, materials, and contact...
How to Live a Double Life (spies)
Living a double life is about control, precision, and keeping your lies cleaner than your truths. To...