2010 INTELLIGENCE FOR EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainability

KINDLE with Active Links Hard Copy: Book’s Amazon Page ($16.93) A massive cultural tsunami is sweeping round the world as the five billion poor acquire Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), and the one billion rich realize that the era of Empire Rule Of, By, and For the Few is over. Happily, this is a revolution …

Worth A Look: Posted from the Past Including Jack Davis on Leadership in Intelligence Analysis

1993 War and Peace in the Age of Information–Superintendent’s Guest Lecture, Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) 1994 ACCESS: The Theory and Practice of Competitor Intelligence (Journal of the Association for Global Strategic Information, July 1994) 1994 Private Enterprise Intelligence: It’s Potential Contribution to National Security (Canada, 29 October 1994) 1995 Open Sources and the Virtual Intelligence …

Search: osint cycle

Most interesting.  This is two different concepts that need to be broken out. Intelligence Cycle with Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). When used as a stand-alone discipline–OSINT is the only all-source intelligence discipline that is ALSO a “full-spectrum” multi-INT in its own right with commercial imagery, commercial signals monitoring, commercial measurement & signatures–the OSINT “cycle” is …

Journal: To “Win” the Cyber War, Start with a Brain

ADM McConnell has it right, although he’s understating a key aspect of the problem.  Let’s postulate that we have abundant technical capability.  The core of the problem, IMHO, lies with lawyers and legislators who will not permit effective utilization of the technical capability.  While easier said than done, particularly in terms of domestic and international …

Journal: Taliban Launches Broad “Tet Offensive”

Below is a perspective on Taliban and Nato operations viewed through an Afghan’s lens.  Chuck Taliban Sense Weakness in NATO WEST DISPLAYS A LACK OF “BARAKA” by Matthew Nasuti Kabul Press, 25 February 2010 The real story has been taking place in Afghanistan during the past two months. Last month the Taliban began attacking large …