The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Somebody somewhere has to do this, and do it with over 90 nations, all NGOs, and global reach into all academic and private sector organizations desiring to share information and do multilateral sense-making.
References:
2009 DoD OSINT Leadership and Staff Briefings
2009: Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Trilogy
The 9-11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, 26 July 2004. As found on Page 23 in the Summary and Page 413 within Chapter 13, “How to Do It? A different Way of Organizing the Government.”
See also: Search: The Future of OSINT [is M4IS2-Multinational]
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This is a very simplified version for public consumption from Dorn 2009. In the Congo MajGen Cammaert was obliged to spend a great deal of time on geospatial information that was not “on the shelf” (utlimately The Netherlands spent USD 3 million to meet his prioritized needs as shown at Graphic: CD (Congo) 1:50,000 Combat Chart Shortfalls. There are also considerable technical collection and processing capabilities that can be deployed when air breather imagery as well as tactical signals assets can be included in the mandate and force structure.
This is a 2000-2002 slide that bears on the extraordinary possibilities inherent in creating a global multinational open source information sharing and sense-making grid. The 80-20 rule really does seem to stand up under most circumstances. White Hat (Stabilization & Reconstruction, Peaceful Preventive Measures) are especially responsible to shared open source information across all boundaries.
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2009 DoD OSINT Leadership and Staff Briefings
