
Integrating redacted CIA tradecraft + Special Forces skillsets into a mindset and way of being that enhances everyday life and work.
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Crisis has a way of separating practiced capability from imagined competence.
What looks like instinct on the outside is repetition returning when the moment turns real.
Your mind is the first perimeter, everything else is secondary.
Every enemy, adversary, criminal enterprise, a...
Most people spend their lives arguing with their instincts, the trained ones learn to decode them.
Your nervous system spots trouble before you...
From conventional problem-solving to operational adaptation.
A CIA adaptive problem-solving posture for situations where normal thinking, access, timing, or support don’t work.
Team,
This week, the world delivered a clean sequence: war stress, economic aftershocks, governance shifts, AI exposure, and personal-security threats. Tradecraft views this week as a systems readout - stress, reaction, and vulnerability....
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The writers behind this newsletter.
[REDACTED] is a former covert operative and founder of RDCTD. Tradecraft, life hacking, tactical, personal security, survival, and self-defense intel for vigilant civilians, intelligence professionals, military, and law enforcement.
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