Stephen Zadrick
Unauthorized Living
Private contractor. Years of field leadership in volatile, unfriendly, unfamiliar environments. Where people want to kill, steal from you or imprison you, there is no option but to win and succeed. All you can rely on is your perceived value or their fear of loss or the unknown. Perception becomes reality.
Unauthorized Living
Private Military Contractor: The Prior Years
Contractor in U.S.-backed operations against foreign dictators, while running government-sanctioned logistics on the side. Intelligence contractor: off-the-books logistics with official approval. Worked alongside U.S. intelligence and military forces on regime-change operations abroad, with executive field leadership supporting US Government activities across a decade of unconventional work, from the late 1970s through the late 1980s. More than 47 years on, Stephen is still progressing with the military project, drawing on the experience of the past through his magic abilities, theatrical abilities and more.
Played both sides of a three-regime conflict with Washington's blessing: sanctioned and unsanctioned logistics, on the books and off. Multiple international private military contractor counterinsurgency program participation, 1978 through the late ’80s. Executive field leadership supporting US Government activities in Panama, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Colombia and the Caribbean in the late seventies and eighties. Sionics Training Center graduate, 1981: an eleven-week program in counterterrorism, intelligence gathering, silent warfare, combat pistolcraft, unconventional warfare techniques and aggressive counter force, instructed by Lieutenant General L. Werbel III, RFAA retired O.S.S. wartime intelligence and inventor of the Silencer/Suppressor. Communication Control Systems (CCS), New York City based: Basic and Advanced Electronic Counter-Surveillance techniques and wiretapping (applications), Graduate 1981. Beginning through Advanced Pistolcraft, Miami, Florida Tamiami Range/School 1982. Combat pistolcraft, combat shotgun, sniper, team execution training, hand-to-hand combat: Graduate 2022, one-week refresher course.
Speaking Engagement
International Dismounted Soldier Conference
Defence iQ · London, United Kingdom · 6–8 December 2022
Stephen Zadrick was invited to attend Defence iQ's International Dismounted Soldier Conference in London, with Client-Centric Solutions listed among the event partners. As a featured speaker on Day Two, he presented “Deep, Dark Secrets of Unconventional Warfare Success” alongside senior leadership from the British Army, US Army, Royal Marines, Italian Army, Spanish Army, Estonian Defence Forces, NATO and CANSOFCOM.
CABSEC/SAMSEC 2022 · Caribbean Basin Coastal Surveillance & Maritime Security Summit
Attended prior to the Dismounted Soldier Conference · Doral, Florida · 8–9 November 2022
Stephen Zadrick was invited to attend CABSEC/SAMSEC 2022, the Caribbean Basin Coastal Surveillance and Maritime Security Summit, run alongside the South American Security Summit, held 8–9 November 2022 in Doral, Florida, prior to the International Dismounted Soldier Conference in London. It was the first in-person edition since 2019, after COVID restrictions, and counter-narcotrafficking was a central theme shared by all participating countries. Attendees included ministers, defense chiefs, navy and coast guard commanders, law enforcement, diplomats, procurement specialists, national shipyard managers and defense manufacturers from around the world. The chairman was retired Lt. Gen. Rocky Meade, Jamaica Defence Force chief of staff from 2016 to 2022.
Notable speakers included El Salvador’s Rear Adm. Exón Ascencio, who argued that planning and broader intelligence-sharing help not just against drug trafficking but also against mass migration, arms trafficking, gangs, human trafficking, money laundering and corruption; Costa Rica’s Commissioner Martín Arias, head of the National Coast Guard Service, who reported rising drug trafficking driven by new transshipment routes to Europe and called for more European involvement; and former Haitian Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe, who said Haiti needed a small, specialized army backed by the international community rather than another UN peacekeeping mission. Jamaica’s Rear Adm. Antonette Wemyss Gorman and Trinidad and Tobago’s Air Vice Marshal Darryl Daniel also spoke, with Daniel stressing that no country can tackle these problems alone. Other agenda items included the Royal Bahamas Defence Force on a unified approach to transnational organized crime, CARICOM IMPACS, and a Belize Defence Force presentation.
Warminster Training Base, Training and Combat Private Forum
Stephen Zadrick was invited to speak and present unique combat and training in the United Kingdom (6-8 December 2022, London) with over 30 people present and another 20 or so joining by Zoom, to a group of officers and psychological warfare experts from all different segments of the United Kingdom, Devcom, a Brigadier General and a major of the Estonian Army, and various NATO countries. In a separate event, coming a year or so after, at the same time in December the following year, December 2023, an actual presentation was coordinated with the United Kingdom’s military, built on their on-site battlefield at Warminster military base. In that highly confidential presentation, Client-Centric Solutions and Zadrick, together with his team, were invited to speak alongside their elite attendees. They gave him a battlefield and he provided a training solution.
Client-Centric Solutions
MiliMagic & Land Forces Training
Stephen Zadrick’s military project: a lifetime of unconventional field work, stage craft and illusion turned into combat and training systems. It is called MiliMagic.
Central to the MiliMagic System is the “Battlefield DJ”. All deployment is synchronized and controlled through a central control system that communicates with all devices through multiple channels, using both hardware and software that has been customized, to produce a fully immersive experience.
Following the orders of his field commander, the Battlefield DJ orchestrates the battlefield illusions. Sound, scent, light, fire and more are deployed by various devices to influence the senses of the target(s) to achieve a desired outcome: confusion, fear, redirection, sleep deprivation, debilitation.
Client-Centric Solutions creates a lab, or “think tank”, of the top experts in combat, magic illusion and deception, and black ops. That advisory group and its new technology are taken to the world’s top magicians to be perfected in front of live stage audiences, then converted to military applications on a fast track. The combined knowledge, systems and methods coming out of the collective have the ability to change the face of warfare, military training, border patrol and policing forever.
Confidential · CCS has patents pending in various international patent applications on each system or combination thereof
Forbes · Soldiers with Fortunes
Stephen Zadrick is not a veteran and never served in uniform. The time for new military inventiveness is now.
This is the argument Steve makes by taking the stage: the same production craft he built for a Las Vegas theater show, overlaid across many kilometers of battlefield. The theater now is the theater of war.
