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Sir, How correct is the given depiction by Mr Gibson (PhD Thesis)?

Sir, Do you have any case study on some OSINT op? How does one persuade a Station Head to use OSINT in support of his  clandestine and technical operations? I am finding that there is more information about secret successes than there is about OSINT successes at the same time that OSINT was eclipsed by …

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Sir: In my paper, I am including ‘What OSINT is not’. Imagine that you are telling a stubbornly dedicated SIGINT operator about OSINT. The operator believes OSINT to be some simple net surfing used for gaining cursory information on anything. Or he relates OSINT to needle-in-haystack kind of discipline where discoveries are made by chance. …

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Sir, as we know info sharing is the strategy in OSINT. I observed that info is majorly multi-domain i.e. whatever we collect has security implications in major domains. For example, if a SIGINT operator pounces upon some piece of grey lit that has one portion concerning diplomacy then the same part needs to be conveyed …

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Sir, The national security field as we define it does not include policy intelligence such as you seem to feel is needed for the twelve core policies that you identify — including local law enforcement — that are outside our “lane” called national security. I cannot change this but wonder if you have a comment.

Sir, There is hardly any guide available on offline OSINT. Also I have been seeking for some map that can show the distribution of open source info (newspapers, journals etc) in South Asia and China.

Sir, The military thinks in terms of four levels — strategic, technical (acquisition), operational or theater, and tactical. Have you addressed in any detail how OSINT can enhance military decision-making at each of those four levels? You keep referring to a Smart Nation. In one interview with IEEE you have a very interesting graphic of …

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