We See What Others Cannot
Gartner named a market in June. The new Emerging Market Quadrant for Narrative Intelligence maps the startups that detect influence operations, the bot swarms and deepfakes and manufactured outrage that now move faster than any human watch officer can read. Good. The market needed a name. For years the people doing this work watched adversaries…
EAST 71st TRADECRAFT PUBLISHING — A TREADSTONE 71 IMPRINT Coming soon to Amazon.com Books 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…
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Institutional journalism faces a catastrophic erosion of authority as power transitions toward decentralised platforms, individual influencers, and visual storytelling systems. Traditional news organisations no longer hold the primary gatekeeping role in the modern information ecosystem. Audiences bypass news websites and mobile applications in favour of social media feeds and personalised content creators. This transition represents…
The global economy has moved beyond money as its primary unit of exchange. Attention now functions as a strategic resource, and power increasingly depends on the ability to capture, direct, and sustain human focus. This transformation toward an attention-based economy demands more than multimedia capability. Influence now depends on cognitive and pre-attentive technologies that shape…
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A new type of conflict is unfolding. State actors are waging a quiet war not for territory, but for the control of perception itself. Ordinary people unknowingly become agents of chaos in this sophisticated form of psychological warfare. Malicious states manipulate, exploit, and weaponize civilians, turning them into assets in a global campaign of cognitive…
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The line between war and peace has blurred. Adversaries strike with memes instead of missiles, rumors instead of rockets, and whispers instead of warning shots. Treadstone 71 has built three programs for this new frontier. Each course is a chapter in a trilogy of clandestine training designed to turn raw analysts into operatives who see…
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Course Info Online, self-paced, on-demand A door opens. Inside waits a playbook of operations not written for machines, but for minds. This is not a lecture on circuits and firewalls. It is a journey into the human terrain where loyalty bends, stories twist, and influence becomes weapon. The course begins with the familiar—traditional HUMINT structures….
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