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Recent Examples of tradecraft
Daniel Silva, the spy novelist, is as well known for his knowledge of international politics as for his knowledge of tradecraft.
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Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 21 Feb. 2025
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
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Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 21 Feb. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tradecraft
Noun
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Our counterintelligence operations remain focused, vigilant, and relentless.—
Greg Wehner,
FOXNews.com,
1 July 2025
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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
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But the ruling raises serious questions about the agency, which focuses on counterespionage, terrorism and sabotage.—
Willem Marx,
NPR,
3 July 2025
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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
Noun
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This is embodied intelligence – the idea that some elements of cognition can be outsourced to the body.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
29 June 2025
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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 13 Jul. 2025.
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