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The Pentagon’s audit concluded that the military’s primary contractor handling the campaign, General Dynamics IT, had employed sloppy tradecraft, taking inadequate steps to hide the origin of the fake accounts, said a person with direct knowledge of the review.
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Chris Bing and Joel Shectman, USA TODAY, 14 June 2024
Our intelligence and counterterrorism classes, for example, include practical training in professional tradecraft.
—Foreign Affairs, 29 Sep. 2023
But our journalist heroes are on a mission, mercenaries of their tradecraft.
—Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 11 Apr. 2024
Despite the tradecraft lapses, Cherkasov made remarkably swift progress toward his goal of infiltrating Western institutions.
—Greg Miller, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Mar. 2023
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Chris Bing and Joel Shectman, USA TODAY, 14 June 2024
Our intelligence and counterterrorism classes, for example, include practical training in professional tradecraft.
—Foreign Affairs, 29 Sep. 2023
But our journalist heroes are on a mission, mercenaries of their tradecraft.
—Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 11 Apr. 2024
Despite the tradecraft lapses, Cherkasov made remarkably swift progress toward his goal of infiltrating Western institutions.
—Greg Miller, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Mar. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tradecraft
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The command post will include senior officials from the FBI's counterterrorism, criminal, counterintelligence and cyber divisions.Mike Levine, ABC News, 31 Oct. 2024
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The process laid out in the executive order requires a robust review of the due diligence regarding both the vendor and the tool, to see whether any concerns, such as counterintelligence, security, and improper use risks, arise.Vas Panagiotopoulos, WIRED, 21 Oct. 2024
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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
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Xi's harsh covid-19 lockdowns brought significant swaths of the Chinese economy to a standstill in 2022, and his officials have raided foreign companies in apparent counterespionage investigations.DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE STAFF FROM WIRE REPORTS, arkansasonline.com, 8 Feb. 2024
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Their purchases at one point had federal officials suspecting foreign agents might be angling for access to intelligence about the nearby Travis Air Force Base, a key facility for military flights to the Far East.Thomas Elias, The Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2024
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According to the official, the Chinese hackers also breached systems used by U.S. intelligence to conduct wiretaps, and both government agencies and the affected private companies have been trying to ascertain what information, if any, the malign actors were able to collect.Robert Legare, CBS News, 25 Oct. 2024
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“Tradecraft.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tradecraft. Accessed 7 Nov. 2024.
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