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 CoherenceGraphic: 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.