* The Chinese character for revolution, “fire in the lake,” was made well-known to literate Americans by Frances Fitzgerald, Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (Little, Brown and Company, 2009), originally published in the early 1970's. The book remains startlingly relevant to a learning-disabled US military repeating the same mistakes, at the behest of politicians repeating the same mistakes, in over 25 substantive “interventions” now active around the world.
This is a work in progress that will be submitted to SSI as a no-cost proposed monograph, with complete DoD pre-publication review at the theater and national levels. It has not yet been proferred nor accepted. The contents will be those of the individual contributing authors, and not representative of DoD as an institution.
Table of Contents
Foreword (SSI)
Leadership Preface (AF)
Introduction [Creating a Smart Army]
Creating the Expeditionary Army
Unified Action Via M4IS2 [Creation a Smart Nation, Structuring for By, With, and Through]
SOUTHCOM: Pilot for Regionally-Aligned Forces & Methods
SOCOM and NATO: Repair or Replace
Army for Life: Solving the Veteran Crisis
21st Century TO&E, Active, Reserve, and Other
Ethics & Integrity: Restoring Duty, Honor, Country
Conclusion [Creating a Smart World at Peace]
Appendix A: Analytic Framework for Holistic Understanding
Appendix B: Analytic Framework for Integrated PPBS
Appendix C: Shoot Army Cyber, Build Army Brain [OSE, 15 Slices of HUMINT]
Interim Reference:
LtCol X: CSA Sends – Strategic Priorities for the Army – with Phi Beta Iota Comments
Precedent SSI Monographs by the Same Author:
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Human Intelligence: All Humans, All Minds, All the Time
June 03, 2010
Authored by Mr. Robert D. Steele.
The author explores the centrality of Human Intelligence in meeting the needs of the U.S. Army, as well as the Department of Defense, and the whole of government, for relevant information and tailored intelligence essential to creating a national security strategy; for defining whole of government policies that work in harmony; for acquisition of the right capabilities at the right price in time to be useful; and for operations, both local and global. -
Information Operations: Putting the “I” Back Into DIME
February 01, 2006
Authored by Mr. Robert D. Steele.
In the Age of Information, the primary source of National Power is information that has been converted into actionable intelligence or usable knowledge. Information Operations is the critical ingredient in early warning, peacekeeping, stabilization & reconstruction, and homeland defense. -
The New Craft of Intelligence: Achieving Asymmetric Advantage in the Face of Nontraditional Threats
February 01, 2002
Authored by Mr. Robert D. Steele.
This monograph is the third in the Strategic Studies Institute's “Studies in Asymmetry” Series. In it, the author examines two paradigm shifts–one in relation to the threat and a second in relation to intelligence methods– while offering a new model for threat analysis and a new model for intelligence operations in support to policy, acquisition, and command engaged in nontraditional asymmetric
About the Author*
ROBERT D. STEELE is a retired Marine Corps infantry and intelligence officer and also qualified as an S-1/Adjutant, with service at all levels from platoon to Service Headquarters. After four years active duty (the balance in the Individual Ready Reserve) and a decade in the clandestine service of the Central Intelligence Agency (including three tours overseas focused on terrorist and extremist targets), he resigned from the CIA to accept a Marine Corps invitation to be the senior civilian responsible for creating the Marine Corps Intelligence Center (today a Command) and served as the study directory for the flagship study, Overview of Planning and Programming Factors for Expeditionary Operations in the Third World. He resigned from the Marine Corps civil service in 1993 to lead the modern Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) revolution, and is the author of the DIA, NATO, and SOF OSINT Handbooks, as well as personally responsible for training 7,500 officers from 66 countries. His latest book, INTELLIGENCE for EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainability, outlines a course of action for creating public intelligence in the public interest across all organizations, beginning with the United Nations. Mr. Steele founded OSS.Net, Inc. and Earth Intelligence Network, the latter a 501c3 public charity, and is the foremost proponent for a Swedish concept enhancing Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, and Multidomain Information-Sharing and Sense-Making (M4IS2). Mr. Steele holds graduate degrees in international relations and public administration from Lehigh University and the University of Oklahoma. He has also earned a certificate in intelligence policy from Harvard University and a diploma in defense studies from the Naval War College.
*The above information may not be current. It was current at the time when the individual worked for SSI or was published by SSI.
