How to Engage and Defeat Adversaries Smarter Than You
The tradecraft method tactics of engaging to outmaneuver / outsmart / defeat adversaries that’s technically more intelligent...
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Maintain Personal Privacy Like a Covert Operative
For a covert operative, personal privacy is a matter of life or death beyond being mission critical....
Being a “Nondescript” Covert Operator
In tradecraft, the meaning of “nondescript” is to be strategically and deliberately unremarkable to blend into environments,...
Spy Skills + Guide
This list of spy skills + training, espionage techniques, and CIA / MI6 field operatives and officers...
The Real Purpose of The CIA
The purpose of the CIA as one of the most powerful organizations with access to information from...
Mastering Time Like an Operative
We can’t operate without the concept of time, it’s all-encompassing, embedded in every aspect of our lives....
The Dark Triad Covert Operator
Covert operatives, assets, subjects and targets in the field that have “dark triad” characteristics: narcissism, Machiavellianism and...
Morning Routine as a Retired Covert Operative
After retiring, for the past few years as a nomad, my morning routine hasn’t been particularly that...
5 Covert Operative Soft Skills
The primary skill types of a covert operative are grouped as tradecraft, tactical and survival. But there’s...
The Tactical Mindset
The tactical mindset is a way of being that optimally prepares you for any dangerous or crisis...
Covert Operative EDC Crucial Kit
A model nonmagnetic, scan / search resistant everyday carry essentials kit for covert agents in the field....