TRADECRAFT

You get one pass at a debrief before the truth hardens. The room either opens a flood or turns...

I learned to keep my edge on broken nights and long routes. Sleep became a mission control function, not...

Trust can be flipped like a lever, and most people never see the hand on it. I learned that...

I move through a room unnoticed because every signal I let out is deliberate. People think deception is noise...

I have solved problems in places where a perfect tool kit did not exist. I learned to turn scarcity...

Your head can lock you in a room with no doors. I have seen seasoned operators freeze because their...

Open source intelligence, or OSINT, is the practice of collecting and analyzing information from publicly available sources to produce...

The Gray Man concept is about blending into your environment so completely that you become unremarkable and unnoticed. It...

Pretexting, the act of adopting a false identity or cover story for a specific purpose, is often misunderstood. In...

A cover story is not a complex lie. It is a simple, credible, and repeatable explanation for your presence...