The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
ROBERT STEELE: I am doing fact-checking as I create the first textbook on intelligence that is useful to all eight tribes of intelligence and breaks away from the mis-directed focus on expensive useless secrets for policy alone. Below from Colonel GI Wilson, USMC (Ret) Yes, sir. This is how I recall it and Zinni confirms …
Originally cited in 2008 Open Source Intelligence (Strategic). Above slide in English and Spanish versions can be found within the M4IS2 Brief for South America. See Also: Tony Zinni: Background & Confirmation of the 4% “At Best” Quote on Secret versus Open Sources
Sir, Which of these three assumptions is closest to your decades of experience? A. Open sources are richer than the closed sources. B. Open sources are as rich as the closed ones? C. Open sources are the chiseled-out bits of closed sources which when put together can tell us about the closed sources they owe …
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Sir, You have published your appraisal of the percentage value and utility of OSINT for each of the ten high-level threats to humanity. Can you post the graphic and make additional comments on the relative value of OSINT for each of the twelve core national policies that you identified several years ago? Our government professionals …
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SHORT URL THIS POST: https://tinyurl.com/Steele-SOF What Acting SecDef Miller’s Special Ops Shift Means The move “will put special operations command on par with the military services for the first time,” acting SecDef Chris Miller announced today The crux of the transformation will ensure that the top special operations official at the Pentagon can go directly …
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Email dated 27 October 2020 To the SMA Community, At the request of Headquarters US Air Force (HAF), SMA initiated a study to address how the Joint Force can best understand and integrate information and influence into its activities across the competition continuum. The attached 5×8 for the Integrating Information in Joint Operations (IIJO) effort …
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What If Sherman Kent Was Wrong? Revisiting the Intelligence Debate of 1949 Zachery Tyson Brown, War on the Rocks One of Kent’s contemporaries noted in 1962 that most policy decisions were made without any input from intelligence — something Kent himself begrudgingly acknowledged and that has since been confirmed again, again, and again. Even when …
