Category: Multinational Plus

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Graphic: OSINT Competing Models

Analysis, Balance, Capabilities-Force Structure, ICT-IT, Innovation, Leadership-Integrity, Multinational Plus, Strategy-Holistic Coherence
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

Advanced Cyber/IO, Analysis, Balance, Capabilities-Force Structure, Collection, ICT-IT, Innovation, Multinational Plus
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 Marketplace

Advanced Cyber/IO, Balance, Capabilities-Force Structure, Leadership-Integrity, Multinational Plus, Strategy-Holistic Coherence
OSINT Marketplace
OSINT Marketplace

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.

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Graphic: OSINT Multinational Information Operations

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OSINT MIOC IO2
OSINT MIOC IO2

This slide, originally created for THE NEW CRAFT OF INTELLIGENCE was morphed to address needs in a briefing to the Coalition Coordination Center (CCC) in Tampa within the U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM).  This remains the core time-energy slide for harnessing the distributed intelligence of the Whole Earth leveraging multinational multifunctional information-sharing and sense-making agreements.

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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.