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• Berakhot 14b teaches that one should not speak in the presence of one greater in wisdom — Proverbs 25:11 "a word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver" is the precision-communication warfare doctrine: the well-timed word is the highest-value intelligence product, and the Sitra Achra operates primarily through the mistimed or misdirected word that disrupts the exact transmission this verse celebrates.
• Sanhedrin 29a rules on the danger of presumptuous reasoning in legal judgments — Proverbs 25:2 "it is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search it out" is the Talmudic epistemology of holy investigation: the Sitra Achra claims that concealment is God's embarrassment; Proverbs inverts this and makes searching-out of concealed things the glory of royal intelligence — all legitimate investigation is anti-Sitra Achra by nature.
• Avot 2:4 ("Do not trust in yourself until the day of your death") elaborates Proverbs 25:16 "if you find honey, eat only enough for you, lest you have your fill of it and vomit it" — the Talmudic moderation principle applies even to legitimate pleasures: the Sitra Achra addicts through excess of good things, converting the warrior's strengths into vulnerabilities.
• Shabbat 105b records that anger is like idolatry — Proverbs 25:23 "a north wind brings forth rain, and a backbiting tongue an angry countenance" maps the atmospheric warfare metaphor: the Sitra Achra uses the tongue of slander as a weather-generating system that produces the storm-front of communal anger, the same destructive effect as full idolatrous apostasy.
• Kiddushin 40b teaches that a sin done in private is as if one pushes against God's feet — Proverbs 25:9 "argue your case with your neighbor himself and do not disclose another's secret" is the Talmudic intelligence-security protocol: the Sitra Achra's social-destruction operation relies on the weaponization of private information released into the communal sphere.