Stephen E. Arnold: Google Books Ruling — Just Wait…

Commerce, Corruption, IO Models
Stephen E. Arnold
Stephen E. Arnold

Google Books Ruling Appealed

It’s not over until it’s over. The long process of determining whether Google’s giant Books project counts as “fair use” continues, we learn from “Authors Guild Appeals Ruling in Google Books Case” at Phys.org. The Authors Guild would like to see limits on the herculean digitization project, which has scanned more than 20 million books to date.

The brief write-up reveals:

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Stephen E. Arnold: Is Palantir In The Business of Raising Money?

Advanced Cyber/IO, IO Impotency, IO Models, IO Sense-Making
Stephen E. Arnold
Stephen E. Arnold

Palantir: What Is the Main Business of the Company?

I read about Palantir and its successful funding campaign in “Palantir’s Latest Round Valuing It at $9B Swells to $107.8M in New Funding.”

If you run a query for “Palantir” on Beyond Search, you will get links to articles about the company’s previous funding and to a couple of stories about the companies interaction with IBM i2 related to an allegation about Palantir’s business methods.

Compared to the funding for ordinary search and content processing companies, Palantir is obviously able to attract investors better than most of the other companies that make sense out of data.

I find Palantir interesting for three reasons.

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Reference: U.S. Governmental Information Operations and Strategic Communications: A Discredited Tool or User Failure? Implications for Future Conflict

Advanced Cyber/IO, IO Deeds of War, IO Impotency, IO Models
SSI Home Page
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U.S. Governmental Information Operations and Strategic Communications: A Discredited Tool or User Failure? Implications for Future Conflict

Dr. Steve Tatham

Synopsis

Through the prism of operations in Afghanistan, the author examines how the U.S. Government’s Strategic Communication (SC) and, in particular, the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Information Operations (IO) and Military Information Support to Operations (MISO) programs, have contributed to U.S. strategic and foreign policy objectives. It assesses whether current practice, which is largely predicated on ideas of positively shaping audiences perceptions and attitudes towards the United States, is actually fit for purpose. Indeed, it finds that the United States has for many years now been encouraged by large contractors to approach communications objectives through techniques heavily influenced by civilian advertising and marketing, which attempt to change hostile attitudes to the United States and its foreign policy in the belief that this will subsequently reduce hostile behavior. While an attitudinal approach may work in convincing U.S. citizens to buy consumer products, it does not easily translate to the conflict- and crisis-riven societies to which it has been routinely applied since September 11, 2001.

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Matthew Wallin's Comments on the Monograph

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Robert Steele's Summary Review Below the Line

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1976-2015: Analytic, Methodological, & Technical Models 2.2

IO Models, IO Tools

SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/2014-Intel-Models

Updated 5 September 2015

1976 PREDICTING REVOLUTION

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Conditions existing in USA today are in red.

1976 Thesis: Theory, Risk Assessment, and Internal War: A Framework for the Observation of Revolutionary Potential

2011 Thinking About Revolution in the USA and Elsewhere (Full Text Online for Google Translate)

Graphic: Pre-Conditions of Revolution

Graphic: Preconditions of Revolution in the USA Today

1979 CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE – THE THING ENTIRE

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Graphic: Culture Simplified

Graphic: Culture Complex

1986-2013 ANALYTIC TOOLS FOR THE ANALYST

CATALYST 1986-2006
CATALYST 1986-2006

1988-2009 OSINT-M4IS2 TECHINT Chronology

Graphic: Analytic Tool-Kit in the Cloud (CATALYST II)

Worth a Look: 1989 All-Source Fusion Analytic Workstation–The Four Requirements Documents

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Reference: 1989 USMC Work-Up for JNIDS VI All-Source Fusion Analytic Workstation

Graphic: 1989 USMC JNIDS VI Workup

NOTE:  USMC submission won the JNIDS IV competition but that win was over-turned by an Admiral without integrity whose words were quoted (too late to go to CMC and CNO) “We are a Navy shop, we will do a Navy problem.”  It is precisely this kind of amoral attention to duty, persistent across the flag ranks — and the staffs that let them get away with it — that undermines national security and national competitiveness.

1988-1992  EXPEDITIONARY ANALYTIC MODEL

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1999 Muddy Waters, Rusting Buckets: A Skeptical Assessment of U.S. Naval Effectiveness in the 21st Century

1991 MCG Intelligence Support for Expeditionary Planners

1990 Expeditionary Environment Analytic Model

1990 Intelligence in the 1990′s – Six Challenges

1989 Al Gray (US) on Global Intelligence Challenges

Graphic: Four Forces After Next with IO

Graphic: Four Global Belligerent Groups Today

Graphic: Four Threat Classes

1990'S PROCESS & PRODUCTION

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Toffler Steele Building Blocks1990'S FOUR THREATS, FOUR FORCES

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2001 Threats, Strategy, and Force Structure: An Alternative Paradigm for National Security

2000 – 2003  NATO GETS IT (50%)

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2000 REF James Cox (CA) Reflections of the former NATO Deputy N-2

2000-2002 NATO OSINT Handbooks

2000  ONE WORLD, READY OR NOT: From National Capabilities to Global Coverage Through a Virtual Intelligence Community Coordinated by NATO/PfP (NATO, 2000)

1997 REF Patrick Tyrrell (UK) Proposals for the Development of an Open Source Programme to Support NATO and PfP Activities

1997  ART Eileen Mackrell Combined forces support: The evolution in military (intelligence) affairs, NATO Review #6 Vol 45 pp 20-22

2002 NEW CRAFT OF INTELLIGENCE

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2002 New Rules for the New Craft of Intelligence (Book 2 Chapter 15)

2004 NEW RULES for the New Craft of Intelligence

2008 Open Source Intelligence (Strategic) 2.0

Graphic: New Balance for the New Craft of Intelligence

Graphic: The New Craft of Intelligence

Robert Steele: The Craft of Intelligence – OLD vs. NEW

2004 – STRONG ANGEL, TOOZL, and SOCOMM J-23

Handbook: Synergy Strike Force, Dr. Dr. Dave Warner, Round II

Memorandum: USSOCOM Software List and STRONG ANGEL TOOZL

Reference: Dr. Dr. Dave Warner & Synergy Strike Force in Afghanistan–”Save the Willing First”

Reference: UnityNet — an M4IS2 Option

2006-  EARTH INTELLIGENCE NETWORK

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2014 EIN_flyer_04

EarthGame 1.0 3.3-1

Graphic: Six Circles–Earth Intelligence Network Operational Concept

Search: Strategic Analytic Model

2006 OPEN SOURCE AGENCY MISSION SUPPORT

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2010  21st Century Human Intelligence (HUMINT)

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Intelligence for the President–AND Everyone Else, as published in CounterPunch, Weekend Edition, February 27 – 1 March 2009

Fixing the White House and National Intelligence, International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Spring 2010; As published; with corrected graphic (best).

Human Intelligence (HUMINT): All Humans, All Minds, All the Time (US Army Strategic Studies Institute, June 2010

2012 OPEN SOURCE EVERYTHING (OSE)

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2011  Open Source Everything (OSE)

2007 Amazon as Hub of World Brain

2007 Open Everything: We Won, Let’s Self-Govern

2008 Open Source Intelligence (Strategic) 2.0

2008 Open Source Intelligence (Operational)

2009 Briefing: Open Everything at UNICEF in NYC

2011 Open Source Agency: Executive Access Point

2012 Reflexivity = Integrity: Toward Earth/Life 4.0

2012 The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, & Trust (Evolver Editions, June 2012)

2012 Open Source Everything List

VIDEO (11:02): Warren Pollock Interviews Robert Steele on Open Source Everything

2013 Robert Steele on Healing the Americas with an Open Source Agency — and Integrity; Dicho Sobre la Curacion de las Américas con una Agencia de Todo Abierto – y la Integridad

2013 Robert Steele in HighGainBlog on Open and Secret Intelligence

INTERVIEW: Open Everything – with Robert David STEELE Vivas UPDATED to Add Parts V and VI

Manifesto Extracts

ROOT: The Open Source Everything Convergence

Search: osint [as of 21 Oct 2012]

1995 – 2013 + SMART NATIONS, M4IS2, WORLD BRAIN, GLOBAL GAME

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2006 Briefing to the Coalition Coordination Center (CCC) Leadership at the U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM)–Multinational Intelligence: Can CENTCOM Lead the Way? Reflections on OSINT & the Coalition

2008: Creating a Smart Nation (Full Text Online for Google Translate)

2010 The Ultimate Hack Re-Inventing Intelligence to Re-Engineer Earth (Chapter for Counter-Terrorism Book Out of Denmark)

2010 M4IS2 Briefing for South America — 2010 M4IS2 Presentacion por Sur America (ANEPE Chile)

2012 Robert Steele: Practical Reflections on UN Intelligence + UN RECAP

2013 Public Governance in the 21st Century: New Rules, Hybrid Forms, One Constant – The Public [Work in Progress]

2013 Robert Steele — Alternative Command & Control and Four Transformation Forcing Concepts

Search: The Future of OSINT [is M4IS2-Multinational]

See Also:

2015 Steele's New Book
2014 Steele's Open Letter
2014 INTEGRITY Year 1?
2014 Intelligence Reform (Others)
2014 Intelligence Reform (Steele)
2013 Intelligence Future
2012 Academy Briefing
Decision Support Story Board
EIN Global Survey (2007)
IO 3 Paths to Peace & Prosperity
IO Tools (List & Links) 22 JAN
NATO OSE/M4IS2 2.0
Open Source Agency (OSA)
Open Source Manifesto
OSINT Training Handbooks
OSINT Top Contributions 1957-2006
Public Intelligence 4.0
Reflections
REVOLUTION Graphic & Refs
USA Reform Ideas
Way of the Truth

2014 – 2014 + APPLIED COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE & TOOL-KIT

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Applied Collective Intelligence (Spanda Journal, December 2014)

Beyond Data Monitoring – Achieving the Sustainability Development Goals Through Intelligence (Decision-Support): Integrating Holistic Analytics, True Cost Economics, and Open Source Everything

Ecuadorean Intelligence Community (November 2014)

Foreword to Stephen E. Arnold’s CyberOSINT: Next Generation Information Access

Robert Steele: Homeland Security – The Much Bigger Picture

Robert Steele On Defense Intelligence – Seven Strikes

Robert Steele: Peter Drucker from the Grave

Robert Steele: The National Military Strategy – Dishonest Platitudes