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2004/12/092009/08/02

2004 Wiebes (NL) Intelligence and the war in Bosnia 1992 – 1995 The role of the intelligence and security services

Communities of Practice, Cultural Intelligence, Historic Contributions, Peace Intelligence

This extraordinary scholar benefits from being given access by an enlightened secret intelligence service whose Parliament demands full transparency as required. His book is one of those very, very few that can legitimately claim to be fully informed from a full examination of all classified messages and archives, as well as the usual unclassified or publicly available information, and the author is himself an extraordinary scholar and a founding member of the Netherlands Intelligence Studies Association, which which his photo connects absent an English-language biographic page.

This book is worth getting at any price from any source–we have urged the author to send us the book for a reprint at cost if his publisher will not do it imemdiately. It should not be out of print.

Below left are his remarks on the book and his investigation as made to OSS '04.

2004/12/042009/09/16

2004 4 Dec Stockholm Peacekeeping Intelligence Trip Report

Communities of Practice, Memoranda, Peace Intelligence

Recently (2007) the United Nations asked the Nordic countries, which customarily operate in a multinational multifunctional fashion (both intelligence and operations) to create a multinational multifunctional information sharing and sense-making program of instruction for the UN. Col Jan-Inge Svensson is the lead in Sweden, and his first two offerings of the course combined with the contributions to this conference will comprise the new book, the second in the series, INTELLIGENCE FOR PEACE: Multinational Multifunctional Information-Sharing and Sense-Making.

2004/11/102009/08/10

2004 New Frontiers in Intelligence Analysis (Global Futures Partnership and Gino Germani Center)

Global Futures Partnership

For the convenience of the authors and readers, the entire book is provided here, and the individual chapters are also provided for ease of isolation, exploitation, and sharing, with the kind permission of co-sponsor and co-editor Carol Dumaine, one of the visionary leaders in the U.S. Intelligence Community.

2004/10/212009/08/07

2004 OSS CEO Response to Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Call for Data on Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)

Memoranda, Military

Over the years we have gone through perhaps ten different Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) “coordinators” for Open Source Intelligence (DIA), always with the same result–a flurry of motion, push-back (or passive aggressive refusal to provide thoughtful responses)–and then they move on. OSINT has consistently failed to attract the attention of the Director of DIA.

Below is our effort to help whoever was in the job (they are never memorable) in 2004.

2004/09/302016/02/06

Reference: Italian Ministry of Defense Briefings

Analysis, Budgets & Funding, Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice, DoD, Ethics, Key Players, Methods & Process, Policy, Reform, Strategy, Threats, Tools

These briefings were commissioned by the Ministry of Defense in Italy and delivered over two days with independent official briefings from Carol Dumaine, then the active leader of the Global Futures Partnership Initiative (GFP).

2002 FAILURE of 20th Century Intelligence

2004 The Failure of 20th Century Intelligence (Updated 2006)

2004 COLLECTION: Know Who Knows

2004 PROCESSING: Make the Most of What You Know

2004 ANALYSIS: All-Source Analysis, Making Magic

2004 NEW RULES for the New Craft of Intelligence

2004/09/152010/12/29

2004 Defense Science Board Report on Strategic Communication

Defense Science Board

Strategic Communications became the buzzword of the decade, along with Information Operations (IO), and it is still sorting itself out. We have a problem: you cannot manipulate perceptions much out of whack with reality–reality has a way of being pervasive, intrusive, compelling, and inevitable. Still, this report was very important in part because it demonstrated how very little we know about the human beings and the societies we are trying to influence. There are other contradictions, one of them humourously depicted to the left here, from our Strategic Communicators in SWA.

2004/09/032009/08/03

2004 Simmons (US) Draft Legislation Smart Nation Act

Historic Contributions, Legislation

This bill was NOT introduced, it was a variation of a much simpler bill created by Congressman Rob Simmons' staff. A version went into the book THE SMART NATION ACT: Public Intelligence in the Public Interest that enjoys a Foreword from Congressman Simmons, and there is today a 2009 version of the Act that has facotred in the needs of Homeland Security and the opportunities in Civil Affairs and in Multinational Information-Sharing and Sense-Making.