GRAY MAN ///
How to be Street Smart: Guide
A tradecraft guide on how to be street smart for foreign and domestic urban scenarios. Skills per operatives, civilians, nomads and urban survivalists.
Covert Public Communication via Theatrical Misdirection
Certain measures must be taken for public face-to-face communication with an asset or associate that require complete irrelativity to each other.
Combat Backpack DIY Mods
![Combat Triple Aught Design FAST Pack Scout Backpack of Det V Cader /// Tradecraft [trdcrft]](https://trdcrft.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Combat-Triple-Aught-Design-FAST-Pack-Scout-Backpack-of-Det-V-Cader.jpg)
A guide on modifying backpacks for nondescript combat applications; bulletproofing, concealed carry weaponizing and security / trap rigging.
How To Be a Gray Man
![How To Be a Gray Man in Toronto, Canada /// Tradercraft [trdcrft]](https://trdcrft.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/How-To-Be-a-Gray-Man-in-Toronto-Canada.jpg)
This is a guide on how to be a gray man. The psychology, aesthetics, methods and equipment of the lifestyle and way of the urban survivalist.
The Art of Being Street Smart
![The Art of Being Street Smart in Karm al-Jabal, Syria /// Tradecraft [trdcrft]](http://trdcrft.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/B807BE57-53B4-4159-AFC9-0453B8BD2830.jpeg)
“Street smart” reasoning and behavior is far from an exact science and that’s the point, as this mindset is an actionable art expressed as a way of being.
Projecting Situational Awareness as Passive Self-Defense
![Hwaseong Fortress of Korea /// Tradecraft [trdcrft]](http://trdcrft.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/DD4E3AB2-0113-4ABE-8A81-DC2FA441D38F.jpeg)
A natural or subtly theatrical show of your situational awareness can act as an incidental preventative form of passive self-defense.
The Gray Man Paradox
The gray man survivalist concept has an inherent flaw in theory and practice: the gray factor – misguided blending tactics with contrary effects.
Adaptive Urban Camouflage
Actual, casual and active urban camouflage is about becoming a part of an interpersonal space (adaptive), not hiding within a (crypsis) visual space.
