Quietly marching on in the background, each making a historic contribution.
Graphic: Earth Intelligence Network Founders
Citizen-Centered, Earth Orientation, Leadership-IntegrityGraphic: OSINT Marketplace
Advanced Cyber/IO, Balance, Capabilities-Force Structure, Leadership-Integrity, Multinational Plus, Strategy-Holistic Coherence
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.
Graphic: Linear versus Diamond Paradigm
Advanced Cyber/IO, Analysis, Balance, Collection, Innovation, Leadership-Integrity, Multinational Plus
First presented in Canada in 1994, this was the first depiction of how out-of-date the existing government intelligence communities are.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.
Graphic: Global Intelligence Collection Failure
Advanced Cyber/IO, Balance, Collection, Languages-Translation, Leadership-Integrity, Strategy-Holistic Coherence
Graphic: Four National Reforms
Advanced Cyber/IO, Balance, Capabilities-Force Structure, Leadership-Integrity, Reform, Strategy-Holistic Coherence
See Also:
2008 Election 2008 Chapter: The Substance of Governance
2002 Robert Steele: Citizen in Search of Integrity (Full Text Online for Google Translate)
1995 GIQ 13/2 Creating a Smart Nation: Strategy, Policy, Intelligence, and Information
1992 E3i: Ethics, Ecology, Evolution, & intelligence (An Alternative Paradigm)
Graphic: Elements of Intelligence
Analysis, Collection, Leadership-Integrity, Processing, Reform, Strategy-Holistic Coherence
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.
