Graphic: OSINT Two Views

The view on the left is a  view from one lacking the deep broad experience to challenge the secret mandarins.  It is a subservient position that is both detrimental to the whole of the secret world, and incompatible with external multinational operations. OSINT is a “hybrid” discipline that is simultaneously: 1.  A full-fledged discipline in …

Reference: 2009 National Intelligence Strategy of the United States of America

One day we hope to see each State, Commonwealth, Tribe, County, and Municipality realize they need their own unique intelligence strategies tailored to their strategic, operational, tactical, and technical challenges.  The aggregate of all of those bottom-up strategies will, we speculate, turn the national intelligence on its head and get it back to basics.  Smart …

Graphic: Six Circles–Earth Intelligence Network Operational Concept

Fairly straight-forward.  All it requires is integrity, intelligence, and imagination. See also: Definitions: M4IS2 (Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing & Sense-Making Reference: World Brain Institute & Global Game Search: The Future of OSINT [is M4IS2-Multinational] Search: Multinational Engagement (Intelligence) Search: InfoOps (Information Operations (IO)) Search: OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) 1988-2009 OSINT-M4IS2 TECHINT Chronology