The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
osint vs humint Machine search–ugly. The answer: 1. Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is a sub-discipline of all of the traditional disciplines, as well as a discipline in its own right, but it is closest to Human Intelligence (HUMINT) and should be managed concurrently with HUMINT, which has fifteen slices, only four of which are classified. …
Not the language we’ve been using. OSINT Handbook gets you there. In any event, here are the two “top guns” plus the Handbooks: 2011 OSINT Discovery Toolkit–Reuser’s Repertorium 2010 Handbook Online for Internet Tools and Resources for Creating Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) by Dr. Ran Hock, Chief Training Officer, Online Strategies, Inc. Three still standard …
This is a classic, and it bears mention that the Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) revolution began in the US military. Here is the human in the loop essence that no computer can create. USDI and D/DIA have chosen to ignore their responsibility for OSINT despite General Tony Zinni’s clear cut statement that all that they …
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The USAF claim that the tragic killing of 23 innocent Afghan civilians last February by one of its Predator UAVs was due to “information overload” reflects an appalling lack of critical thinking on the part of senior Air Force officers. General Mike Hayden (USAF ret.) when director of the NSA used regularly entertain the U.S. …
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The single best articulation of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) advantages remains: 2008 Open Source Intelligence (Strategic) The single best articulation of how to get OSINT right in the context of global and US needs remains: 2009 DoD OSINT Leadership and Staff Briefings OSINT is a sub-set of M4IS2 (Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing and Sense-Making), …
This yields three adequate results, but the human in the loop can do better. Step One: Acknowledge and embrace the eight tribes of intelligence as stakeholders. Create, as Sweden did, a Cooperation Committee (the Swedes get annoyedwhen you call it a Coordination Committee). Step Two: Use the military, and particularly the National Guard or law …
Although the search produces a number of hits, including Graphic: OSINT Competing Models, it misses Graphic: OSINT Two Views as well as some larger references because OSINT is out and M4IS2 (Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing and Sense-Making is new new meme in town, originating with the Swedish military and specifically Col Jan-Inge Svensson and …
