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Just throwing out some ideas here.
My starting point for this sort of thing is best described as "counter-law enforcement." This is a strategy of making the laws they pass to exploit, dominate, and control the people impossible to enforce.
Successful operations of this type against the draft during Vietnam are a big factor in why Trump does not have a huge conscript army for an invasion and conquest of Iran. It made my own fight against Reagan's efforts to bring back the draft for his El Salvador war much easier, again helping to block an invasion.
Counter-law enforcement can quite effectively start with blinding the enemy's surveillance and targetting systems. These are not just nuisance and privacy problems, their presence is a major strategic issue that may mean we only have a limited time to act before it becomes too late.
These are effectively command and control targets. People can strike both in the open and from underground at their digital intelligence networks, such as Flock cameras, phone tracking, and even store surveillance.
In the open work can means protests, primary and recall campaigns against pro-surveilance thugs in office to attrit their numbers, and boycotts of the worst stores like Target and Best Buy. It can also include campaigns against banks, stockbrokers, insurance companies, and suppliers both to the makers of this shit (e.g Flock) and their customers such as stores. Big chain stores install Flock cameras in their parking lots, then lobby the county or city to install more. These can be used to track anything from shoplifters to who buys what,
From both the digital and meatspace undergrounds right now, surveillamce networks are being hacked, and Flock and similar cameras are being both destroyed by furious residents and bagged up by local governments trying to appease those same residents. Nobody is going to vote for Flock and they know it. The open citizens and the underground guerillas work hand in hand against "Flock-ism" and even worse shit like Palantir.
Another part of this consists of getting people into the habit of not driving to places they might want to be able to deny having been to so as to simplyt reduce the value of Flock and similar vehicle tracking systems. This works no matter what happens to the Flock cameras and network themselves. Same idea as suppression of enemy air defenses, but not relying on them being suppressed when flying in at treetop level to hit something else.
Same concept works against passive surveillance via people's phones. There is the "SignalTrace" protect to combine Bluetooth, wifi, and cellular monitoring with ALPR (presumably Flock) cameras to associate what phones travel with what cars. This doesn't work when phones get left home, Faraday bagged, or even just turned off or put in airplane mode. These are listed in order of presumed effectiveness.
Fact is though, as of now just keeping location sharing OFF and not being logged into Google or Apple stops surprising amount of tracking. After J6/2021, not being logged into Google or having location sharing off was enough to keep hundreds of Trump's goons from being found. It prevented geofence warrants for high precision location data showing which phones were inside the Capitol finding them. Works for them, works for us. Logging out of Google and turning off location sharing are tools, they work for anyone who picks them up
If people learn to stop using credit cards for sensitive stuff like phone cards and hardware used for protests and direct action alike, yet another major source of deanonymizing data can be choked off.
Neutralizing networked tracking systems makes policing protests and tracking organizers more difficult. Both protest and direct action becomes safer as people become even harder to identify.
This also benefits everyone else who is trying to stay out of jail or prison, as disabled intelligence/command and control systems forces them to go back to manual investigation work when fewer people want to be cops after the 2014 and 2020 BLM Uprisings.
What helps us activists also helps things like queer folks cruising woods and beaches after being kicked off Grindr by age verification and clubs being closed by police raids. I've had the distinct pleasure of being able to directly benefit from my own work back in Summer 2020, when I could go outdoor cruising (covid risk only from a direct partner not everyone there!) after an afternoon of confrontation at BLM Plaza near the White House. All the cops had to stay there, meaning the places I went to cruise had to be left alone as the other side was out of cops.
At this point, the fight against AI data centers rises in importance, as using AI to track people who are NOT in their cars requires the use of big data centers. Less of these means reduced availability of AI. We need to choke that back big-time though, as the billionaire/trillionaire class will prioritze the military, law enforcement and defense of the wealthy over all other uses of AI..
Another major strategic goal right now may be the defense of unhoused camps. If the uber-rich can round up and jail unhoused folks, they gain more freedom to cut wages and worsen conditions knowing if people quit and nobody will rehire them they go to jail. This of course is SLAVERY and must be resisted by any means necessary.
This points to the strategic as well as moral importance of striking at mass incarceration, starting with making it unprofitalbe and hopefully escalating to making it impossible
Existing prison labor programs should be struck at by all possible means. Delaney Hall shows the way, with labor strikes inside backed by protesters outside. Businesses selling prison labor goods can be harassed, and boycott campaigns are cutting off some of the funding for private prisons.
In 2019 not only Wells Fargo but ALL other then-known banking partners of Geo Group committed to divesting. Forbes reported that Geo Group (owner of Delaney Hall) was "running out of banks!"
https://www.forbes.com/sites/morgansimon/2019/09/30/geo-group-runs-out-of-banks-as-100-of-banking-partners-say-no-to-the-private-prison-sector/
This was driven by years of harassment from protesters and from underground in a one-two combination. Hammer and Anvil so to speak. The effect was to literally take money out of slaveowner pockets.
Direct harassment of private prison companies could be stepped up too, things like turning their CEOs into neighorhood pariahs with residential protests. The overall campaign could re-use the SHAC (anti HLS/vivisector) tactics and strategy that debanked, de-invested, and de-supplied Huntingdon Life Sciences until it rolled over and sank. To some extent we are already doing that by debanking these monsters.
Making jail and prison unprofitable directly helps us defend ourselves of course. If we can give the Enemy the idea that sending any one of us to any jail or prison risks destabilizing whatever facility draws the short straw, we turn ourselves into tough targets carrying a real deterrent to being attacked.
Many more things we can do. Let's remember a lesson of WWII: the real strategic targets are not always what they seem. It was thought "Panzers don't roll without ball bearings" but Nazi ball bearing factories turned out to be easily replaced. OK, both the ball bearings and the panzers and planes they go into move on railroad track. Thus this become a strategic target. Railroad rail could be replaced, but trains didn't run until it was. In addition, replacing track requires steel, which requires coal and ore. Targetting that coal was said to be one of the most effective things the 8th Air Force ever did to Nazi Germany.
When the Allies started destroying Nazi coal and synthetic oil production, all parts of the Nazi war machine began to starve and the effects of this shortened the war. All the other replacement stuff made from metal didn't get made if there was no coal.
