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Search: SOF OSINT Special Operations Forces OSINT

This post addresses difficulty in getting to SOF OSINT Handbook. Civil Affairs and UN DPKO would other useful search branches. 2004 Special Operations Forces OSINT Handbook (Strawman) Memorandum: USSOCOM Software List and STRONG ANGEL TOOZL 2004 Harrison (US) Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Requirements Management: A U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) Perspective 2003 Hardee (US) Special …

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Search: OSINT software

The search term brings up appropriate results, but the fact of the search gives us an opportunity to provide comment. 1)  Nothing now being used by governments, and certainly not iBase or Palantir, both aging technologies that do not scale and have too many fat-finger handicaps, fulfills the originial requirements documents crafted in the late …

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2004 Simmons (US) Foreword to the Special Operations Forces (SOF) Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Handbook

This Foreword, the first one done by Congressman Rob Simmons of Connecticutt for any handbook or book in the larger Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) arena, would be revised and used for others publications, but in its time, in 2004, this was the first-ever deep high-level statement of both need and opportunity with respect to OSINT …

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Answers on OSINT for India 46: OSINT Training Done Right? None

Sir, an official recently asked about institutions capable of training in OSINT in India. All those that i know about teach about internet surfing. Do you know any institutions in India that can impart true OSINT training or any officials who had been trained by you or your company? SHORT ANSWER: No one, anywhere, does …

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Answers on OSINT for India 35: Should OSINT Technical Be Separate from OSINT Analysis?

Sir, Do you think it wise to distribute OSINT into two components- analytical vs technical. Technical here means all those tools and wares that help in analysis. It doent mean any alleged omnipotent search engine that searches every thing. For example, while ACH (Analysis of Competing Hypotheses) is an analytical method while the software that was …

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