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Graphic: OSINT Global Pyramid from OSIS-X to Intelink-X

Advanced Cyber/IO, Analysis, Balance, Capabilities-Force Structure, Collection, Earth Orientation, ICT-IT, Innovation, Leadership-Integrity, Multinational Plus, Processing, Reform, Strategy-Holistic Coherence
OSINT Global Pyramid
OSINT Global Pyramid

This remains the intellectual property of Robert Steele and is the core concept for ultimately creating a World Brain and EarthGame that engage all human minds and connect all humans to all information in all languages all the time.

Both the Open Source Information System – External (OSIS-X) and Intelink – X will be United Nations “virtual clouds” that achieve a degree of assured security that is good enough through to the secret level, and thus able to engage all in what the Swedes call Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing and Sense-Making (M4IS2).

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Graphic: OSINT Competing Models

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OSINT Competing Models
OSINT Competing Models

The US secret intelligence community will never be able to fulfill the National Intelligence Strategy ambitions to provide decision-support to all who need it, so long as they are bonded to the old model of high-side default.  A United Nations model of low-side default is the only possible means of achieving pervasive multinational information-sharing and sense-making, all of which can be fed to the high-side in near-real-time, none of which may be mis-directed or constrained by the high-side.  OSINT is a free and independent discipline whose center of gravity lies outside the wire and outside the control of any government.

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Graphic: OSINT Cell

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OSINT Cell
OSINT Cell

This was the basic OSINT cell recommended to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in 1990.  We still need to get to where every Agency and every major Command and every partner across each of the other seven tribes of intelligence has such a cell, and they are all linked in a global Open Source Information System – External (OSIS-X) that is NOT controlled by the USA.

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Graphic: OSINT Baseball

Balance, Capabilities-Force Structure, Citizen-Centered, Innovation, Reform, Strategy-Holistic Coherence

 

OSINT Baseball
OSINT Baseball

Inspired by Steve Denning, former Chief Knowledge  Officer (CKO) of the World Bank, this graphic tells the story of OSINT in contrast to the traditional disciplines.

The text:

Still today, here's how  the secret world plays the game:

HUMINT recruits a player to drop or catch the ball on command, but communications are so slow they inevitably screw it up.

SIGINT has listening devices in the dug-out, and tries to call the game from what is said there.

IMINT used to take an image of the field every three days, now they have a drone overhead and if they don't like the look of things, put a drone into the crowd (missing the umpire, who was the target).

MASINT tries to sniff the ball leaving the glove, and when that fails asks for billions more.

OSINT uses Twitter to both follow the score and compile impressions of each player–it's called crowd-soourcing.

See Also:

Graphic: Twitter as an Intelligence Tool

Graphic: The New Craft of Intelligence

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Graphic: Linear versus Diamond Paradigm

Advanced Cyber/IO, Analysis, Balance, Collection, Innovation, Leadership-Integrity, Multinational Plus
Linear versus Diamond Paradigm
Linear versus Diamond Paradigm

First presented in Canada in 1994, this was the first depiction of how out-of-date the existing government intelligence communities are.  They are hierarchical Weberian stove-pipes out of touch with reality and anyone who is actually steeped in reality.

The old intelligence paradigm is on the left–a very controlled hierarchical stovepipe process that is best characterized as twelve-month planning cycles followed by three-month writing cycles and eighteen-month editing cycles.  Most of what we produce is too late, not right, and not useful.

The new intelligence paradigm makes the acme of skill “knowing who knows” (with a tip of the hat to Stevan Dedijer) and the ability to put a consumer with a question in touch with a source (or multiple sources) who can create new tailored knowledge in the instant.

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Graphic: OSINT NATO Documents

Analysis, Collection, Innovation, Multinational Plus
OSINT NATO
OSINT NATO

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.