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Creating a Smart Nation
Robert Steele[i]
Mark Tovey (ed), COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace (Earth Intelligence Network, 2008, pp. 107-130
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“The Open Source Program: Missing in Action”
Responds to Hamilton Bean's “The DNI's Open Source Center” in IJIC Summer 2007, a copy of which is available on this web site under References. Click on Frog to go there.
“Foreign Liaison and Intelligence Reform: Still in Denial” comments on the excellent article about secret foreign liaison, “Foreign Intelligence Liaison: Devils, Deals, and Details,” in IJIC 20/1 Spring 2007, pp. 167-174.
The Army Strategy Conference is generally the best and most serious show in town when it comes to thinking about its topic–strategy. In 1998 the conference nailed the future, but the Services remained beholden to their budget share wars and contractor-driven bells and whistles for profit strategies–they betrayed the public interest. In 2008 the conference again nailed it, and here is the draft article in both document form (click on the image) . The military talks about “we can't do it all” but the military leadership is still not serious about enabling inter-agency planning, programming, budgeting, and campaigning.
At the very bottom, following the full-text online, Frog left is the full detailed notes from this conference, and Frog right is the summary article of the 1998 conference.
Strategic OSINT (Chapter 6 in Strataegic Intelligence Vol 2) 10 MB
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Introduction
OSINT and Intelligence Reform
– History
– Requirements
– Collection
– Processing
– Analysis
– Covert Action
– Counterintelligence
– Accountability, Civil Liberties, and Oversight
– Strategic Warning
– Strategic Sharing
– Emerging Prospects
— Digitization
— Visualization
— Peer-to-Peer (P2P)
OSINT and Electoral Reform
OSINT and Governance Reform
OSINT and Strategic Budgetary Reform
Notes 1-44
Volume II, Chapter 6, pp. 95-122. Edited by Professor Dr. Loch Johnson, the dean of the intelligence practitioner-scholars, this set, while expensive, is the best available total overview of the craft of intelligence.
Operational OSINT (Chapter 10 in Handbook of Intelligence Studies) with p 145
Executive Summary
– Definition and scope
– Open source intelligence and joint or coalition operations
– Private sector information offerings
– OSINT and the emerging future intelligence architecture of NATO
Introduction to Open Source Intelligence
– Definitions
– OSINT in context
– OSINT and information operations
– OSINT and national security
– OSINT and the larger customer base for intelligence
– OSINT and the levels of analysis
– OSINT and coalitions
– OSINT and saving the world
– OSINT as a transformative catalyst for reform
Open Sources of Information
Open Source Software and Software for Exploitation
Open Source Services
The Open Source Intelligence Cycle
Applied Open Source Intelligence
– Open source intelligence tradecraft
– Mission relevance of open source intelligence
— Missioon area applications
Conclusion
– Money Matters
— Funding trade-offs
— Contracting mistakes
— Metrics for measuring return on investment
—–Cost of secrecy
—–Relative value
—–Return on sharing
— Commercial strategy
— Budget and manning implications
– The value of sharing
References
Acronyms
Notes 1-30
This handbook is both much shorter than, and completely different from, the five-volume set on Strategic Intelligence. Edited by Professor Dr. Loch Johnson, the dean of the practitioner-scholars, it includes a Chapter 10 my updating and adaptation of the NATO Open Source Intelligence Handbook to be of gneeral=purpose utility to the public practitioner.
Technical Preface
Robert Garigue, PhD (RIP)
Robert Steele, INFORMATION OPERATIONS: All Information, All Languages, All the Time (Earth Intelligence Network, 2006), pp. xiii-xviii.
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