When the adversary thinks at machine speed, the analyst needs new tradecraft.
The structured analytic techniques that trained a generation of intelligence officers were built for a slower time deception took months, sources were human, and one analyst could hold the whole picture. That time is gone. Adversaries now run influence at industrial scale, drive cyber operations with Al, and manufacture reality faster than the classic methods can test it.
Tradecraft at Machine Speed rebuilds the analyst’s toolkit for that fight. Sixty-six techniques across nine families carry the Heuer-Pherson canon forward into cyber threat intelligence, cognitive warfare, counterintelligence, strategic foresight, and Al-era hybrid operations each one laid out in a working eight-part format an analyst can open mid-incident.
Every method is anchored in real operations – Salt Typhoon and Volt Typhoon, Spamouflage and Doppelganger, the GTG-1002 Al-orchestrated campaign. Confidence is stated in Sherman Kent’s terms. Sources are tagged for what they are. None of it stays theory.
For the intelligence analyst, the intel team, the influence-operations cell, and the counterintelligence officer who have to be right – and fast.
