Graphic: Elements of Intelligence
Analysis, Collection, Leadership-Integrity, Processing, Reform, Strategy-Holistic CoherenceGraphic: OSINT NATO Documents
Analysis, Collection, Innovation, Multinational Plus
These remain the three core documents for OSINT available to the public. Any White OSINT training document that is restricted and cannot be shared with multinational individuals is not pure OSINT and is suspect. Similarly, any White OSINT that is “classified” is not OSINT and reflects no credit on those producing it. See them and others useful compilation in the Handbook section of this Public Intelligence Blog.
Graphic: OSINT Support to Four Levels of Analysis
Advanced Cyber/IO, Analysis, Balance, Innovation, Leadership-Integrity, Multinational Plus, Reform, Strategy-Holistic Coherence
This is the slide that grabbed General Peter Schoomaker, USA (Ret), the ONLY Army flag officer that has ever understood OSINT in detail. General Schoomaker's intelligence and integrity are the sole reason the U.S. Government has today exactly ONE serious OSINT capability as represented by J-23 at the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). Everything else is fluff, lip service, and broken promises.
Graphic: The New Craft of Intelligence
Advanced Cyber/IO, Analysis, Balance, Collection, Innovation, Multinational Plus, Reform, Strategy-Holistic Coherence
Graphic: OSINT All-Source Temple
Analysis, Capabilities-Force Structure, Leadership-Integrity, Multinational Plus, Reform, Strategy-Holistic Coherence
This is the original graphic that captured Robert Steele's vision for leveraging Open Source Information (OSIF) and Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) to dramatically improve the effectiveness of the classified disciplines and consequently the reach and insight of the all-source analysts.
Graphic: 1989 USMC JNIDS VI Workup
Advanced Cyber/IO, Analysis, Geospatial, ICT-IT, Innovation, Leadership-Integrity, Processing, Strategy-Holistic CoherencePDF USMC Winning Submission to JNIDS*
*3 years after the fact, too late to fix, USMC was told that it had won, but the Admiral in charge of JNIDS said “We are a Navy shop, we will do a Navy problem.” This is emblematic of the pervasive corruption across DoD at every level across every mission area.
Graphic: Pre-Conditions of Revolution
Advanced Cyber/IO, Analysis, Balance, Leadership-Integrity, Reform, Strategy-Holistic Coherence
The 1976 graduate thesis has not, to the best of our knowledge, been superceeded. It could certainly be improved and updated. At the end it provides an operationalization (specification of data elements to be collected and analyzed) for each of the pre-conditions of revolution.
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