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When your adversary is motivated by low-level zealotry, there really isn't much traditional tradecraft can do. Sure you can find fringe members, set them up, t
by huffmsa 10y ago
When your adversary is motivated by low-level zealotry, there really isn't much traditional tradecraft can do.
Sure you can find fringe members, set them up, then pat yourself on the back when you arrest them for attempting to detonate the fake explosives in Time Square that you gave them like the FBI does.
But broadly, the techniques developed through the hyper educated European IC lineage to persuade other hyper-educated IC members that their particular 19th Century theory of economics and government is wrong aren't going to work against an illiterate opium farmer who's principles come from a 10th Century manuscript.
Hell, this is the meta-theme of Daniel Craig's James Bond.