The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
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This tribe is global. Those who do not understand ciation analysis and who insist on citizenship and clearance requirements are destined to fail at all-source intelligence (decision-support).
Created in the mid-1990's on the basis of 1988 insights, this slide remains the fundamental depiction of the four threat classes that demand we train, equip, and organized four forces after next, not one.
Quietly marching on in the background, each making a historic contribution.
Hard to believe, but the U.S. Intelligence Community still does not do holistic analysis, in part because most of what the U.S. Government actually needs in the way of decision-support is not secret and has nothing to do with really expensive improbable threats.
ANY factor can be put in the center–the point is that ALL factors must be analyzed at ALL times.
As with all graphics this remains the intellectual property of Robert Steele.
The OSINT Marketplace will not fully develop until we constrain the corruption within the military-intelligence-industrial complex that substitutes “butts in seats” with clearances and precioius little else to offer, for tangible substance that can be easily shared across all boundaries. Butts in seats are a waste of time-energy. We must also stop paying more than once for anything, which requires a coherent requirements system, harmonzied contracting–we cannot even get one agency to have one OSINT contracting officer uber alles–and an OSINT “cloud” repositiory.
