Category: Journal ISSN 1078-1935

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2005 The new craft of intelligence: Achieving asymmetric advantage in the face of nontraditional threats (Studies in asymmetry)

4 Star, Intelligence (Government/Secret), Intelligence (Public), Monographs

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Distillation of the Book, Tailored for Army Audience,

March 22, 2005
Robert David Steele
This monograph is a distillation of my book, “The New Craft of Intelligence,” but one tailored for the U.S. Army, which under the leadership of General Peter Schoomaker has gone full force into the future, creating 40+ brigades out of the 10+ divisions, creating stabilization & reconstruction forces, being the first service to designate Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) as a separate “INT” with its own concepts, doctrine, manning, and funding, and so on. US Army personnel can get a free copy from the Strategic Studies Institute at the US Army War College, and it is also online there, visible to the public and printable as a PDF. Including in this publication are recommendations that have been considered (not necessarily adopted) by the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, who first articulated the need for universal coverage, in all languages, at the neighborhood level, 24/7, in January 2004.
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2002 The New Craft of Intelligence (Asymmetric Studies)

Intelligence (Government/Secret), Intelligence (Public), Monographs
New Craft of Intelligence (Asymmetric Studies)
New Craft of Intelligence (Asymmetric Studies)

This was my first attempt to formalize the two major paradigm changes that the Department of Defense continues to resist at levels below the Secretary of Defense, himself an intelligence professional:

Need to shift from state-based threats with fixed addresses to non-state threats able to play “off the shelf.”

Need to shift from heavy reliance on high-tech secret sources to low-tech human and open sources.

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Graphic: Data Pathologies

Advanced Cyber/IO, Information Society, Intelligence (Government/Secret), Misinformation & Propaganda, Power (Pathologies & Utilization)

I'm sticking to my story–there is nothing wrong with America, the government, the department of defense, or the secret intelligence community, that cannot be restored with one word–INTEGRITY.

In no way does this impugn the honor or the good intentions of specific individuals or organizations.  Instead, this addresses the reailty that our industrial-era society has failed to adapt and is on the verge of collapse in the face of complexity.  Only bottom-up Collective Intelligence can cope, but that requires innovative and pervasive education for all.