Berto Jongman: IDA on Global Coverage — Without Reference to Prior Art or the Real World
Without reference to Boyd Sutton or anyone else of note. Rethinking the Concept of Global Coverage in the U.S. Intelligence Community Institute for Defense Analysis, May 2015
Answers: Robert Steele to Kevjn Lim on Big Data
Kevjn Lim is an independent writer and Middle East foreign policy analyst at Open Briefing: The Civil Society Intelligence Agency. In the latter half of 2013, he was Turkey representative for the Syria Needs Analysis Project (SNAP), covering the Syrian crisis in the northern governorates and Turkey. From 2007-2011, he served as delegate with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in …
Continue reading “Answers: Robert Steele to Kevjn Lim on Big Data”
Reflections: Appraisal of Analytic Foundations – Email Provided, Feedback Solicited – UPDATED
SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-Analysis I was thinking this morning about how little has changed since I was a founding member of the Advanced Information Processing and Analysis Steering Group (AIPASG) and also a member of the Information Handling Committee (IHC) for the US secret world (late 1980’s early 1990’s). I note in passing my continued dismay …
Stephen E. Arnold: Content Processing SUCKS
Next Generation Content Processing: Tail Fins and Big Data Posted: 18 Aug 2013 03:11 PM PDT Note: I wrote this for Homeland Security Today. It will appear when the site works out its production problems. As background, check out “The Defense Department Thinks Troves of Personal Data Pose a National Security Threat.” If the Big …
Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: Content Processing SUCKS”
Reference (2012): Expectations of Intelligence in the Information Age, Review by Steele, Wright, Anon & New Link 3.0
UPDATE: 1 January 2013 from Spanish Dancer: What is most striking to me, and to a few others I have spoken to recently, is the SECDEF quote early in the paper. If we follow its premise it puts anyone who opposes our projection of power in the cross hairs. It is this doctrinal fluff that …
Richard Wright: Michael R. Davidson, CIA DO SIS (Ret), Comments on Steele & OSINT with Steele Response 2.1
UPDATE 2 Dec 2012: Wright update, Steele update, at end of original post. As received: On the Linkedin Group, “Intelligence and Security”, a member started a discussion on open source intelligence using a quote from your [forthcoming chapter], “The Craft of Intelligence.” Davidson (a self proclaimed “former CIA Senior Intelligence Officer”) made such a wildly ignorant …
