Adaptive Option Generation
The habit of staying dangerous to problems by keeping options alive. Most people don’t lose because they...
Tradecraft
Situational Awareness Activation (civilian)
A rapid-onset of heightened perception on command, letting you process a new space quickly, identify risk vectors...
The Tactical Probabilistics Protocol
A covert operative method of assessing situations tactically with probability – to control risk and engage optimally...
How to Strategically ‘Handle’ People in Conversations
Covertly controlling the terrain, setting the frame, pacing emotions, and tightening the decision corridor so the target...
Hostile Environment Pre-Scripting
In high-risk and non-permissive areas, your tongue is your first weapon and your last shield. A tight...
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...