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2010/01/132010/01/13

Journal: Haiti–Ready for a Rapid-Response Open-Source-Intelligence-Driven Inter-Agency Multinational Multifunctional Stabilization & Reconstruction Mission…

AP: Injured Haitians plead for help after quake Haitians piled bodies along the devastated streets of their capital Wednesday after the strongest earthquake hit the poor Caribbean nation in more than 200 years crushed thousands of structures, from humble shacks to the National Palace and the U.N. peacekeeping headquarters. Untold numbers were still trapped. Destroyed …

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2010/01/132010/01/13

Reference: COIN Planning & Knowledge

In accordance with our mandate to “help connect the dots” across multiple joint, interagency, intergovernmental, and multinational partners, the COIN Center and SO & SFA proponent offices are redoubling efforts to increase presence and activity on the COIN webpage [link here], COIN blog [link here], COIN Center Facebook fan page [link here] and Battle Command …

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2010/01/122010/01/12

Worth a Look: Open Sources Database

WHO is behind this is not known to us, and it is a very partial listing but with integrity (they point to our copies of the NATO OSINT Documents that Robert Steele wrote or supported) and a pleasing look and feel. This has a great deal of potential, especially if it can go multi-lingual, multicultural …

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2010/01/122010/01/12

Journal: MILNET Intelligence Headlines

Can Intelligence Be Intelligent? (Wall Street Journal) By BRET STEPHENS JANUARY 12, 2010 Exhibit A is last week’s unclassified White House memo on the attempted bombing of Flight 253 over the skies of Detroit. Though billed by National Security Adviser Jim Jones as a bombshell in its own right, the memo reads more like the …

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2010/01/112010/01/11

Journal: Comment on DIA Potential

The QDR slides got me thinking about the fact that DIA could be a really first rate intelligence agency and an effective counter to ODNI and CIA for the SecDef, JCS, and the military services, especially field commanders. Although badly executed, DIA has two vitally important missions: support to military operations; and support to military …

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2010/01/092010/01/09

Journal: Open Source Vignette From Cuban Missile Crisis

Robert, I had lunch with an old friend, Herb REDACTED, a retired intelligence officer and military judge (Air Force). The subject of OSS and your role in the IC came about, and my friend sent me a very interesting, brief, story about the open source back channel in the Cuban Missile Crisis I want to …

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2010/01/062010/01/06

Journal: Yemen Maps and Prospects

Phi Beta Iota: CIA, presumably with help from NGA, but not necessarily, has gotten much, much better at creating useful maps. This is truly delightful. They still don’t do tribes in the classical demographic-linguistic sense, but this is a huge step forward. Bravo. Truly gratifying to see this progress. What the world needs now is …

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