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I spent 12 years in the Air Force, the last 4 in an intel unit writing software to analyze radar signal intercepts. I've never heard the word tradecraft used to
by mbrameld 13y ago
I spent 12 years in the Air Force, the last 4 in an intel unit writing software to analyze radar signal intercepts. I've never heard the word tradecraft used to mean anything intel-related, although Google tells me that it is used that way. It may be more common in some intel communities than others, but I'd venture to guess that if you did a survey the large majority of folks in the general population will have no idea about the intel-related usage of the word.
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- dllthomas 13y agoI wasn't particularly claiming it was used by a large portion of those in intelligence; my claim was that it was an overwhelmingly large portion of the uses of the term, and those familiar with it at all (and not just guessing the meaning based on the fact that it's made up of two familiar words) are most likely to have heard about it in Burn Notice (which apparently had ~5 million viewers) or read it in a Tom Clancy novel (of which there may be 100 million copies in print), if they didn't read it in a recent Al Jazeera or Washington Post headline.