Secrecy New Extract: DIA Seeks to Classify Reality

PENTAGON DELAYS PUBLICATION OF NEW BOOK The Department of Defense says that a forthcoming book about the war in Afghanistan contains classified information, and that it should not be put on the market in its current form.  Instead, the Pentagon is considering whether to purchase and destroy the entire first printing of the book, “Operation …

Journal: Army Industrial-Era Network Security + Cyber-Security RECAP (Links to Past Posts)

Army Times article, second below, reports what the beginning of what I expect will be a major decline in functionality of Army computer systems.  While some sort of institutional response to the alleged Wikileaks traitor, Specialist Bradley Manning, is appropriate, I don’t think this is it.  This is a simplistic approach, the sort of thing …

Graphic: Core Force for Multinational and Whole of Government Operations

This graphic was created for a lecture to Eastern European Parliamentarians at the George C. Marshall Center in the mid-tolate 1990’s.  Many understood back then that the Department of Defense (DoD) was the only element of the U.S. Government (USG) capable of serving as a hub or backbone for USG Whole of Government and dynamic …

Search: osint models

Although the search produces a number of hits, including Graphic: OSINT Competing Models, it misses Graphic: OSINT Two Views as well as some larger references because OSINT is out and M4IS2 (Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing and Sense-Making is new new meme in town, originating with the Swedish military and specifically Col Jan-Inge Svensson and …

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