Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Analysis

00 Remixed Review Lists, Worth A Look

Analysis & Problem-Solving

Analytic Base

Review: Information Productivity–Assessing Information Management Costs of U. S. Corporations

Review: Information Proficiency–Your Key to the Information Age (Industrial Engineering) (Hardcover)

Review: Intelligence Power in Peace and War

Review: Intelligence Services in the Information Age

Review: Power/Knowledge–Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977

Review: Powershift–Knowledge, Wealth, and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century

Analytic Tradecraft

2002 The New Craft of Intelligence (Asymmetric Studies)

2002 THE NEW CRAFT OF INTELLIGENCE: Personal, Public, & Political

2005 The new craft of intelligence: Achieving asymmetric advantage in the face of nontraditional threats (Studies in asymmetry)

2006 Information Operations (IO) Back into DIME

2006 INFORMATION OPERATIONS: All Information, All Languages, All the Time

Review: Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships, The Future of Professional Services

Review: How to Do Everything with Google (Paperback)

Review: Revising business prose (Scribner English series)

Review: The Back of the Napkin–Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures

Commercial Intelligence Practice

Review: Business Blindspots–Replacing Your Company’s Entrenched and Outdated Myths, Beliefs and Assumptions With the Realities of Today’s Markets

Review: Commercial Observation Satellites–At the Leading Edge of Global Transparency

Review: Early Warning–Using Competitive Intelligence to Anticipate Market Shifts, Control Risk, and Create Powerful Strategies

Review: Find It Online, Fourth Edition–The Complete Guide to Online Research (Find It Online: The Complete Guide to Online Research)

Review: Global Perspectives on Competitive Intelligence

Review: Keeping Abreast of Science and Technology: Technical Intelligence for Business

Review: Online Competitive Intelligence, 2nd Edition: Increase Your Profits Using Cyber-Intelligence

Review: Public Records Online–The National Guide to Private & Government Online Sources of Public Records

Review: Strategic and Competitive Analysis–Methods and Techniques for Analyzing Business Competition

Review: The Art and Science of Business Intelligence Analysis

Review: The Information Broker’s Handbook

Review: The New Competitor Intelligence–The Complete Resource for Finding, Analyzing, and Using Information About Your Competitor

Orientation

Review: Defense Facts of Life–The Plans/Reality Mismatch

Review: Eastward to Tartary–Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus

Review: Handbook of Intelligence Studies

Review: Knowledge Without Boundaries–What America’s Research Universities Can Do for the Economy, the Workplace, and the Community

Review: Millennials Rising–The Next Great Generation

Review: Nudge–Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

Review: Open Source Intelligence Analysis: A Methodological Approach (Paperback)

Review: Real-World Intelligence

Review: Reinventing Knowledge–From Alexandria to the Internet

Review: Robert Young Pelton’s The World’s Most Dangerous Places: 5th Edition

Review: Scholarship in the Digital Age–Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet

Review: Secrets of the Super Searchers–The Accumulated Wisdom of 23 of the World?s Top Online Searchers

Review: Security Studies for the 21st Century

Review: Sharing the Secrets–Open Source Intelligence and the War on Drugs

Review: The Clustered World –How We Live, What We Buy, and What It All Means About Who We Are

Review: The Five Front War–The Better Way to Fight Global Jihad

Review: The Rise and Decline of the State

Review: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Review: Theory, risk assessment, and internal war–A framework for the observation of revolutionary potential

Review: Thinking in Time–The Uses of History for Decision-Makers

Review: Very Special Intelligence

Strategic Thinking

2006 THE SMART NATION ACT: Public Intelligence in the Public Interest

2008 Open Source Intelligence (Operational)

2008 Open Source Intelligence (Strategic)

Review: A New Kind of Science

Review: Ambient Findability–What We Find Changes Who We Become (Paperback)

Review: Analyzing Intelligence: Origins, Obstacles, and Innovations

Review: Building a Knowledge-Driven Organization

Review: Consilience–the Unity of Knowledge

Review: Information Space

Review: On Intelligence–Spies and Secrecy in an Open World

Review: Strategic Intelligence & Statecraft–Selected Essays (Brassey’s Intelligence and National Security Library)

Review: Strategic intelligence for American world policy (Unknown Binding)

Review: War and Anti-War–Making Sense of Today’s Global Chaos

Review: Who Owns Information?–From Privacy To Public Access

Reference: Congressional Research Service Report on Congress as a Consumer of Intelligence Information

Congressional Research Service

Below is a very important report that focuses primarily on Congress as a consumer of SECRET information.  The report has yet to be written on Congressional needs for decision-support (intelligence) that is unclassified and can be shared with constituents, the press, and the private sector being regulated and taxed.

CRS Report
CRS Report

Click on the Frog to see a one-page listing of Congressional committees and how they would benefit from an Open Source Agency (OSA) that included Congress via the Congressional Research Service (CRS) as a primary stake-holder and recipient of unclassified decision-support.  Conressional needs are also addressed by The Smart Nation Act: Public Intelligence in the Public Interest.

Congress & OSINT
Congress & OSINT
Congress & OSINT
Congress & OSINT

2008 World Brain as EarthGame

Articles & Chapters, Civil Society, Complexity & Resilience, Consciousness & Social IQ, Decision-Making & Decision-Support, Democracy, Environment (Solutions), Future, Information Society, Intelligence (Collective & Quantum), Intelligence (Public), True Cost & Toxicity, Truth & Reconciliation, United Nations & NGOs, Values, Ethics, Sustainable Evolution, Voices Lost (Indigenous, Gender, Poor, Marginalized)
World Brain as EarthGame
World Brain as EarthGame

Medard Gabel
Medard Gabel
Earth Intelligence Network

EarthGame is a trademarked representation of the original work of Professor Medard Gabel. Visit his web site by clicking on his photographl, and read his overview of the EarthGame by clicking on the EIN seal.

Reference: National Open Source Strategic Action Plan

Director of National Intelligence et al (IC)
Online at FAS
Online at FAS

1.  Needs to be redone and reissued without Doug Naquin’s signature.  The delegation of authority to him is in violation of both ICD 300 and ICD 301.

2.  The Vision is flawed because it focused only on security.  Whole of Government needs for OSINT span the full range of ten high-level threats to humanity and the twelve core policies that need to be harmonized, listed below to demonstrate the paucity of the CIA OSC version of vision.

High-Level Threats to Humanity: 01  Poverty;02 Infectious Disease;03 Environmental Degradation;04 Inter-State; 05 Civil War; 06 Genocide; 07 Other Atrocities; 08 Proliferation; 09 Terrorism; 10) Transnational Crime.

Twelve Core Policies for Harmonization: 01 Agriculture; 02 Diplomacy; 03 Economy; 04 Education; 05 Energy; 06 Family; 07 Health; 08 Immigration; 09 Juctice; 10 Security; 11 Society; 12 Water.

Any Open Source Officer (OSO) who cannot recide these from memory and relate them to the mission of the US National Intelligence Community as outlined in the National Intelligence Strategy, should be assigned to less-demanding administrative duties.

The above can be used in conjunction with Secretary Gates’ statement that the military cannot do it all, and the Defense Science Board studies (all available at www.phibetaiota.net under References/DSB), to make the case for OSINT being a “360 degree” service that must meet the Mission Area needs of all of the elements of the Federal, State, and Local governments as well as regional constellations of mixed government and non-governmental organizations focused on challenges of common concern, e.g. Darfur, piracy, etcetera.

The illustration on page 5 is severely flawed in that it fails to integrate the OSINT needs and capabilities of all the federal non-security consumers at the same time that it assumes Homeland Security Enterprise will cover the non-security aspects of information sharing, and it ignores the Rest of the World both domestic and international.

The illustration on page 7 is severely flawed—a historic tendency of FBIS/OCS in that it assumes all OSINT is accessible via technical means.  Humans and direct face to face interaction with Humans, is not part of the FBIS/OSC understanding.

The objectives on page 8 are laudable and not achievable as the IC OSINT enterprise is now organized and led.  The integrated linguist activity is a particularly urgent need that is not understood nor properly defined in terms of online and human capabilities that could be harnessed.