tradecraft

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Recent Examples of tradecraft Personnel are difficult to replace in intelligence given the unique nature of the job, with its specialized tradecraft, knowledge, and expertise. Peter Schroeder, Foreign Affairs, 17 Jan. 2025 Until these recent disclosures—comprising more than 3,000 individual files—observers could mostly just speculate about the goals, specific methods and tradecraft, and bureaucratic procedures driving contemporary Russian disinformation campaigns. Thomas Rid, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2024 The documents expose not just the outputs of disinformation campaigns but their inputs—the proposals, the internal assessments and evaluations, the tradecraft, the technological methods, the identity of the contractors running the projects, and the funders and politicians behind those contractors. Thomas Rid, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2024 Clever tradecraft Software developer kits, better known as SDKs, are apps that provide developers with frameworks that can greatly speed up the app-creation process by streamlining repetitive tasks. Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 23 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for tradecraft
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Noun
  • Our counterintelligence operations remain focused, vigilant, and relentless.
    Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2025
  • But after this conflict, with a heightened sense of insecurity, Iran’s counterintelligence operatives will be on particularly high alert.
    RICHARD NEPHEW, Foreign Affairs, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • China’s recent expansion of its counterespionage law to cover a much wider array of information, coupled with raids on some advisory firms and a pickup in exit bans on foreigners, has made the business environment more uncertain.
    Jami Miscik, Foreign Affairs, 24 May 2023
  • After the 9/11 attacks and the rise of Islamist terrorism, ASIO ran down its counterespionage capabilities in favor of counterterrorism.
    Clive Hamilton, Foreign Affairs, 26 July 2018
Noun
  • This is embodied intelligence – the idea that some elements of cognition can be outsourced to the body.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 29 June 2025
  • In an interview with Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo, Bartiromo brought up a Truth Social post from Trump saying Democrats had leaked intelligence around the Iran strike, to which the president interjected that they should be prosecuted.
    Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 29 June 2025

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“Tradecraft.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tradecraft. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.

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