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Sir, What are the training and skill requisites for someone working in OSINT?

Sir, What are the similarities and differences between OPSEC and Counter Intelligence?

Sir, Which of these three assumptions is closest to your decades of experience? A. Open sources are richer than the closed sources. B. Open sources are as rich as the closed ones? C. Open sources are the chiseled-out bits of closed sources which when put together can tell us about the closed sources they owe …

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Sir, This excellent person very senior retired officer speaks of OSINT collection rather than acquisition.  Did you not make a vital distinction of this point in your past writing and speaking? Q: Has India been utilizing Open Source Intelligence? How can OSINT be institutionalized in India?

Sir, You have made frequent reference to computer aided tools for the analysis of science & technology.  Can you please explain the below diagram?

Sir, You have agreed with BGen James Cox, RN CA, with respect to the need for a separate Open Source Agency equivalent to the separate agencies for signals, imagery, and human intelligence. Given the nature of this agency as a direct support element to decision-makers including the national legislature and domestic customers including governors and …

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Sir, Do you think it wise to distribute OSINT into two components- analytical vs technical. Technical here means all those tools and wares that help in analysis. It doent mean any alleged omnipotent search engine that searches every thing. For example, while ACH (Analysis of Competing Hypotheses) is an analytical method while the software that was …

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