Peter Thiel's CIA-backed, data-mining firm honed its 'crime predicting' techniques against insurgents in Iraq.
By using new techniques against new data sources, it unlocked new value.
5] to authorize new grant programs that would marshal modern medical techniques against mental ailments.
Krav maga is world-famous for its disarming techniques against assailants with handguns, rifles, knives, sticks, and even rocks.
Just as Islamic State (Isis) has used captured American artillery against its enemies in Iraq, so it is using the west's media tools and techniques against it.
We use the most elementary defensive tactics against a sucker punch or bear hug, and also the most advanced techniques against guns or grenades.
After the 9/11 attacks, George W Bush's administration allowed the use of waterboarding, which simulates drowning, and other enhanced interrogation techniques against suspected terrorists.
He said at the time that he feared "the lawyers for the other side would employ the same techniques against me that I had employed on television".
In 2002, during parts of June and July, current and former intelligence officials have said, the C.I.A. suspended the use of harsh techniques against Abu Zubaydah.
Four years later the CIA director who presided over the end of the torture program insisted: "The use of these techniques against these terrorists made us safer".
It has used electronic blocking and jamming techniques against the Ukrainian military, which has fought Russian-backed forces in eastern Ukraine since shortly after Russia took Crimea.
