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Four Core Principles

Chapter: Chapter 1 — Foundational Concepts

ACT, cultural empathy, GTM, and self-awareness — the organizing frame for all commands.

Designing any red team session or command flow.

  1. ACT (Applied Critical Thinking) — explicit reasoning.
  2. Cultural empathy — understand missing worldviews and communication frames.
  3. GTM (Groupthink Mitigation) — safe dissent.
  4. Self-awareness — know your biases first.

Handbook v10 entry. RedTeam updates and extends the v9 lineage — not a verbatim reproduction.

Part of The Red Team Handbook, Version 10, maintained by Curate Labs — successor to the defunct UFMCS v9.0 work. See SOURCE.md and NOTICE.md.