Search: osint cycle

Most interesting.  This is two different concepts that need to be broken out. Intelligence Cycle with Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). When used as a stand-alone discipline–OSINT is the only all-source intelligence discipline that is ALSO a “full-spectrum” multi-INT in its own right with commercial imagery, commercial signals monitoring, commercial measurement & signatures–the OSINT “cycle” is …

Review: Wiki Government–How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful

Almost a Five–Making Wrong Things Righter February 21, 2010 Beth Simone Noveck I sat down intending to make this a five, but the two fluff reviews have to be off-set. Robert Ackoff would say this is a spectacular book about making the wrong things righter instead of the right things righter–too many lawyers and focused …

Review: Come Home America: The Rise and Fall (and Redeeming Promise) of Our Country

Read Fire Side Chat Review–This is Supplemental February 20, 2010 William Greider Very rarely do I find reviews as lengthy as my own. Please read and appreciate the Fireside Chat review that is deservedly popular with readers. I first encountered William Greider while managing the international conference on “National Security and National Competitiveness: Open Source …

Journal: Potential End to Two-Party Monopoly

Disillusioned Bayh advocates electoral “shock” to broken system In an interview on MSNBC this morning, newly retiring Sen. Evan Bayh declared the American political system “dysfunctional,” riddled with “brain-dead partisanship” and permanent campaigning. Flatly denying any possibility that he’d seek the presidency or any other higher office, Bayh argued that the American people needed to …

Handbook: Bullets and Blogs Information Operations

Invite your attention to attached — contains a couple of interesting observations about Open Source Intelligence (OSINT): “…open source intelligence — catapulting it to primary place for new adversaries and increasingly for the U.S. military — and also rapid organizational learning and assembly of capabilities…”  [page 9] “…There are strong indications that Hezbollah made significant …

Search: osint and it’s role in intelligence

Ref A: 2008 Open Source Intelligence (Strategic) Ref B: 2008 Open Source Intelligence (Operational) Ref C:2009 DoD OSINT Leadership and Staff Briefings Ref D:  2008 IJIC 21/3 The Open Source Program: Missing in Action Ref E: 2006 IJIC 19/1 Intelligence Affairs: Evolution, Revolution, or Reactionary Collapse?” See also: