This comes up in connection with communities seeking to achieve sustainable lviing, both as communities (residents) and governments (municipalities.
Twelve Traits
Two versions of the 12 Traits of Sustainable Communities are available, one abbreviated, one in-depth. Reach both via the logo. The second is a 22-page handbook (on its way to 500 pages) from June 2009 that is so cool we are making it a Handbook. These ideas scale globally.
A Strategic Analytic Model is the non-negotiable first step in creating Strategic Intelligence, and cascades downto also enable Operational, Tactical, and Technical Intelligence.
That list, in that priority, comprises the vertical aspect of the Strategic Analytic Model.
The following quote from Senator Sam Nunn (D-GA), now retired but then the Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), is instructive:
I am constantly being asked for a bottom-line defense number. I don't know of any logical way to arrive at such a figure without analyzing the threat; without determining what changes in our strategy should be made in light of the changes in the threat; and then determining what force structure and weapons program we need to carry out this revised strategy.
Do NOT buy the book “new.” First published in 1947, it is available used in the 1960's edition for under $10, see the link to the lower of the two used offerings.
A hint of the original MacIver content is contained here but $35 for this is idiotic greed (or just idiocy).
01084. THE WEB OF GOVERNMENT BY R.M. MACIVER. A review of this study of the working of government in human society. The 1947 study is viewed as a treatise on fascism and communism as class-based societies. 5 pages, 8 footnotes, 1 bibliographic source.
The key point in all of this is that top-down hierarchical command & control entities are not now and never will be complex adaptative systems. To achieve complex adaptive resilience you need to have bottom-up and contant feedback loops with integrity. See Search: The Future of OSINT is M4IS2.
The key concept that you appear to be searching for points directly to the wealth of networks, the ability to achieve a prosperous world at peace by achieving infinite non-zero (win-win) options for all, by empowering the five billion poor to achieve infinite wealth, and by using co-intelligence to eradicate fraud, waste, and abuse such as is now characteristic of most organizations that thrive on data pathologies and information asymmetries.
The future of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is Multinational, Multifunctional, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing & Sense-Making (M4IS2).
The following, subject to the approval of Executive and Congressional leadership, are suggested hueristics (rules of thumb):
Rule 1: All Open Source Information (OSIF) goes directly to the high side (multinational top secret) the instant it is received at any level by any civilian or military element responsive to global OSINT grid. This includes all of the contextual agency and mission specific information from the civilian elements previously stove-piped or disgarded, not only within the US, but ultimately within all 90+ participating nations.
Rule 2: In return for Rule 1, the US IC agrees that the Department of State (and within DoD, Civil Affairs) is the proponent outside the wire, and the sharing of all OSIF originating outside the US IC is at the discretion of State/Civil Affairs without secret world caveat or constraint. OSIF collected by US IC elements is NOT included in this warrant.
This concept first developed as an “information continuum” from described in 1992 as being from schoolhouse to White House, and then in 1993 covering nine elements as shown below.
1992-1993 Nine Sectors
From there, for General Peter Schoomaker at USSOCOM, it was described as eight segments, treating the Internet as a separate entity.
