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Recent Examples of tradecraft
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
See all Example Sentences for tradecraft
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tradecraft
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The statement came amid an uptick in Israeli counterintelligence activity said to target attempts by Iran to gather sensitive information and plot attacks within Israel.David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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With the executive order, the US focuses on its national security and foreign policy interests in the deployment of the technology in accordance with human rights and the rule of law, as well as mitigating counterintelligence risks (e.g. the targeting of US officials).Vas Panagiotopoulos, WIRED, 21 Oct. 2024
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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
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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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Today, such a contest would be made all the more unpredictable given the complexity and ambiguity of measuring progress toward something so abstract as intelligence.Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
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The second episode illustrates the scope of the resources and intelligence operation required to identify and attempt to hunt him down.Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 16 Nov. 2024
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“Tradecraft.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tradecraft. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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