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The Minab tragedy should end one lazy excuse fast: “the AI did it.” No. This is what happens when weak tradecraft and weak intelligence officers and senior enlisted enter the kill chain. It was recklessness with better software: zerolineintel.com/minab-school-s…

@SapperJaeger Thanks for the mention, @SapperJaeger . We’re getting after a growing knowledge gap that accessible curricula just aren’t doing. Tradecraft and human judgment matter now more than ever. Our advantage depends on both. Hope you find something useful in it

Gideon's books (this series) are actually quite good also very good price recommended!

The Iran war proved the U.S. can smash visible military power. It did not prove we can collapse the system underneath it. That is the IC's indicator and warning problem now. New from 0L: zerolineintel.com/break-the-stat…

CIA Director Ratcliffe highlighted deception today. He should. Because modern battlespaces will be halls of mirrors, engineered to mislead sensors, models, and analysts alike. That’s where HUMINT validation and tradecraft still earns its keep: zerolineintel.com/hall-of-mirror…

There’s a reason SERE-C and high-risk training stay classified. It’s not for storytelling. It’s for survival. If you’re online chasing clout off it, stop. The men and women who rely on it don’t need it turned into content. Protect the craft. Protect the people.

What can go wrong will go wrong. Last night’s personnel recovery proved it: layered contingency planning is the difference between success and failure… life and death. Because no plan survives first contact. That’s where intelligence comes in. Fusion. Depth. Redundancy. Reduce uncertainty. Beat Murphy.

How is Iran hitting aircraft we once assumed untouchable? Thermal signatures. Acoustic patterns. Physics you can’t hide. That’s MASINT. It’s not new—but in a denied battlespace, it’s decisive. Most don’t understand it. Our intelligence professionals must. Read more:

The future fight is not just whose AI is better. It is whose AI can survive deception. New on ZeroLine: Palantir’s Maven, adversarial AI, machine-speed targeting, and what "intelligized warfare" now demands of intelligence professionals: zerolineintel.com/palantirs-mave…

The only constant in modern war is uncertainty. The job of intelligence is to reduce it, fast, and correctly. AI tools and fast kill chains don’t replace tradecraft. They kill faster and raise the cost of getting it wrong. Good tradecraft is more human than ever. More here: amazon.com/dp/B0GRQZT3PK?…

Let’s be honest about the moment. This is Russia’s window to impose cost on the U.S. And they’re taking it. Our support to Ukraine puts us in the game whether we admit it or not. They’ll go after U.S. blood and iron where they can. The question is how much we let them.

This is bad. Lesson: survivability starts on the ground. We’re not the only ones with precision standoff in LSCO. RU/IRN exploited pattern-of-life and struck accordingly. A well-executed scatter plan cld have avoided this. This is on the ground force and squadron commanders.

You don’t lose stealth advantage all at once. You leak it. ELINT not required. Iran exploited MASINT by watching pilot habits: low altitude, panel checks, patterns. Emissions tied to behavior. That's likely how the F-35 got tracked. The B2 too: zerolineintel.com/b2-stealth-bom…

Kill-chain speed is now combat power. Ukraine is already operating inside that reality. See our take on Ukraine's 2026 counteroffensive: zerolineintel.com/the-kill-chain…

@Usasoc_CSM When the Army can't march, something deeper is broken. If they can't march in a straight line, what the hell makes you think they can hold one under fire and loitering death? Discipline matters. In EVERY command. zerolineintel.com/drill-dont-chi…

Some say… “Green Berets can’t march”. We say… “They aren’t supposed to”. #WeAreIrregular