Tony Zinni: Background & Confirmation of the 4% “At Best” Quote on Secret versus Open Sources

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 …

Graphic: Tony Zinni on 4% “At Best”

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

Answers on OSINT for India 39: How Are Open and Closed Sources Related?

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 …

Owl: What Acting SecDef Miller’s Special Ops Shift Means + Robert Steele Comments

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 …

Berto Jongman: Integrating Information in Joint Operations (IIJO)

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 …