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Two field references, two novels, one body of intelligence and cognitive-warfare expertise — by Jeffrey Bardin, a career intelligence officer and founder of Treadstone 71.
Most intelligence books pick a lane. They teach method, or they tell a story, and they rarely admit the two are the same craft seen from different chairs. These four refuse the split. The references carry the doctrine and the technique. The novels carry the texture — the way an alias ages on a face, the way a betrayal feels in the hand, the price the work extracts from the operator who runs it.
Drawn from real cases and written by a practitioner who has both run operations and trained the people who hunt them, the set forms one progression: understand the fight, master the method, then live inside the consequence. The novels are not a reward for finishing the manuals. The novels are the manuals, told straight. Treadstone 71 has worked the cognitive fight since 2002 — veteran-owned, woman-led, NICCS-validated.
FIELD REFERENCE · DOCTRINE · RELEASING · MID-JULY 2026
The Mind Domain
Cognitive Operations & AI-Era Influence
A Practitioner’s Doctrine — People Intelligence · Narrative Intelligence · Cognitive Warfare · by Jeffrey Bardin
Wars now open in the mind. The sabotage, the leak, the ballot — each one lands after the story has already turned the ground. Twenty-three chapters lay out how foreign services map a population, shape what it believes, and move whole publics without firing a round.
Russia comes first, because Russia has done this longest and at the largest scale. China follows, with patient networks strung through business, press, and the schools. Then Iran and North Korea. For every adversary the book hands you two things: the play they run, and the tell that gives them away. AI runs front to back — the same models that draft your reports now draft an adversary’s personas, clone a voice, and flood a feed.
TRADECRAFT INSIDE
- Population mapping and narrative intelligence
- Source ranking and plainly stated confidence
- Adversary playbooks: the play and the tell, by nation
- Where AI sharpens the threat — and the prints it leaves
- Rules of engagement that hold up in law and in public
Hardcover · Pairs with the two-tier Cognitive Operations programme
Find on Amazon.com: The Mind Domain
FIELD REFERENCE · METHOD · RELEASING · EARLY AUG 2026
Tradecraft at Machine Speed
Cyber Threat Intel · Cognitive Warfare · AI-Era
Advanced Structured Analytic Techniques · by Jeffrey Bardin
When adversaries automate cyber operations and shape reality at industrial scale, conventional analysis falls behind. This reference answers with sixty-six structured analytic techniques across nine families, built to advance the classic Heuer–Pherson canon into modern hybrid conflict.
An operational, eight-part execution structure for teams working under pressure. Salt Typhoon, Volt Typhoon, Spamouflage, and Wagner worked as live cases. Sherman Kent estimative language and source-quality tags throughout. Built for the analyst who applies the method during the incident — not in the after-action.
TRADECRAFT INSIDE
- 66 structured analytic techniques, nine families
- Eight-part execution structure for live operations
- Estimative probability language and source-quality tagging
- Threat calibration through offensive-tradecraft analytics
- Real campaign teardowns, worked end to end
Hardcover · Advances the Heuer–Pherson SAT canon
Find on Amazon.com: Tradecraft at Machine Speed
NOVEL · THE PERSONA, BOOK ONE · AVAILABLE NOW
The Cyclone Inheritance
Deep Cover · Moral Injury · The Making of an Enemy
by Jeffrey Bardin
Eighteen chapters. One decade. One man who stops being himself. Rhys Morgan, flagged at twelve as something rare, claimed years later by a service with no name. The service takes his one gift — an ear that hears the shape of a language before he knows a word of it — and builds other men out of him.
Hamburg. Beirut. Istanbul. The analog trade run the hard way: aliases aged in person, paranoid networks earned and then turned, dead drops, cassettes, money sewn into a coat lining. Then a cover demands a price with a body count — and in the white heat of Jeddah he shakes the hand of a soft-spoken young veteran of the war he helped win, and understands, far too late, that he had a hand in building the next one.
TRADECRAFT INSIDE
- Legend-building and alias aging, done in person
- Agent recruitment, network penetration, and turning
- Dead drops, brush passes, analog secure comms
- The moral injury of sustained deep cover
- Blowback, taught as a strategic lesson, not a footnote
Paperback · East 71st Tradecraft Publishing
Find on Amazon.com: The Cyclone Inheritance
NOVEL · COLD WAR ESPIONAGE · AVAILABLE NOW
The Quiet Siege
Deep Cover · Divided Loyalty · The Unmaking of a Self
by Jeffrey S. Bardin
Ten chapters. Twenty years. One woman who becomes everyone but herself. Elena Vavilova — a Tomsk University idealist recruited young, remade at Yasenevo, then sent west to vanish into a life assembled from a dead child’s name, the legend the world later knew as Tracey Foley.
Toronto. Cambridge. The bland green suburbs of the enemy, inhabited for two decades. The slow trade run with monastic patience: coded bursts ticking off a shortwave after midnight, messages folded into the pixels of a vacation photo, cash lifted from a hole in the frozen ground, neighbors loved and quietly filed. Then the life she faked so flawlessly produces the one thing she cannot fake — two sons she loves without performance — and the mission asks her to raise them inside the lie.
TRADECRAFT INSIDE
- The illegals programme, seen from the inside
- Steganography — live messaging hidden in image pixels
- Shortwave burst comms, caches, and identity laundering
- Twenty-year cover maintenance under counterintelligence pressure
- Counterintelligence failure as a cautionary case study
Paperback · East 71st Tradecraft Publishing
Available Now: The Quiet Siege
WHY THE NOVELS BELONG ON THE SHELF
Strip away the plot and a novel by a career officer is a field manual that happens to keep you up at night. The references tell you how a technique works. The novels show you how it feels to run it for real — the patience a recruitment demands, the cold arithmetic of a dead drop, the discipline of a legend that has to survive a curious neighbor and a hostile service for twenty years.
Every analyst studies counterintelligence failure as a diagram. These books make you live it — the moral injury of deep cover, the betrayal traded for a lie that must hold, the operator who wins the mission and loses the self that started it. Read the doctrine to understand the fight. Read the novels to understand the people inside it, on both sides of the wire. Tradecraft carried in the fiction: legend and alias craft, recruitment and turning, dead drops and brush passes, steganography, burst comms and caches, identity laundering, and blowback rendered as strategy rather than footnote.
AVAILABILITY — ALL FOUR ON AMAZON.COM
The two novels are available now. The two field references release this summer — The Mind Domain in mid-July 2026 and Tradecraft at Machine Speed in early August 2026. Every title publishes through East 71st Tradecraft Publishing and lists on Amazon.com.
Tradecraft at Machine Speed — on Amazon
The Cyclone Inheritance — on Amazon
FROM THE PAGE TO THE PROGRAMME
The Six Pillars — The T71 Standard
Read the books. Then run the method.
The doctrine changes how you see the next campaign run against your people. The method turns the worry into a named, evidenced finding. The novels make sure you never forget what the work costs.
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