The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The Oligarch Threat Important for its focus on private intelligence & covert action. The weaponisation of information is mutating at alarming speed Important for analyzing true cost of losing privacy. An Approachable Look at the Human Domain and Why We Should Care Important for its focus on the neglected human domain.
Ashton Carter, John Deutch, Philip Zelikow CATASTROPHIC TERRORISM – Tackling the New Danger Foreign Affairs, 77/6, NOV/DEC 1998
Open Source Information Is Information Operations Untapped Weapon Carmen Landa Middleton My experience, both as a long-time practitioner of the open source discipline and as a former leader of the CIA branch responsible for it, is that there are two stubborn myths that continue to impede the true unleashing of OSINT’s power and potential. First, …
Tainted Leaks: Disinformation and Phishing With a Russian Nexus This report describes an extensive Russia-linked phishing and disinformation campaign. It provides evidence of how documents stolen from a prominent journalist and critic of Russia was tampered with and then “leaked” to achieve specific propaganda aims. We name this technique “tainted leaks.” The report illustrates how the …
Andrew Garfield is the founder of Glevum Associates. He has pioneered face to face indigenous polling in combat conditions. 2011 Losing the War of Ideas in Iraq 2011 Garfield SOF Summit Human Polling 2011 Garfield InfoOps Effective Communications 2007 Comprehensive Approach to Information Operations Web Site (GlevumUSA) Foreign Policy Research Institute (Contributor)
Steele, Robert David (2006). INFORMATION OPERATIONS: All Information in All Languages All the Time. Oakton, VA: OSS International Press. Annotated Bibliography from Information Operations
The Menace of Unreality: How the Kremlim Weaponizes Information, Culture and Money covers the Kremlin’s methods and motives as they spread the influence modern Russia, rightly called a mafia state. The concept of “Operations Psychological”, as defined by Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia, plays a prominent role …
