Answers on OSINT for India 40: OPSEC & Counterintelligence
Sir, What are the similarities and differences between OPSEC and Counter Intelligence?
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, 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 …
You ask, Is M4i2 a philosophy or a process (like C2)? I want to answer that question in three ways: M4IS2 is a philosophy. M4IS2 is a process that must integrate Holistic Analytics (HA), True Cost Economics (TCE), and Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE) M4IS2 at the highest level is a spiritual alignment of humanity …
I am delighted to see you focusing on the necessary migration from C4 to M4IS2. You have asked me how these concepts can be correlated. C4 is rooted in technology while M4IS2 is rooted in humanity. C4 stands for command & control, communications, and computing. Generally the term used is C4I, adding intelligence, and the …
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