The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Hot Topics AA: Mercenary Mann says South Africa backed coup plot 11/29/09 AA: Are SA mercenaries assisting Guinea’s military junta? 11/26/09 AO: Angola: Armed forces reiterate support for public health services 11/26/09 CD: DR Congo appeals for arrest of FDLR leaders in Western countries 11/26/09 ET: Ethiopia’s Human Rights Reports presented to the African Commission …
A Strategic Analytic Model is the non-negotiable first step in creating Strategic Intelligence, and cascades downto also enable Operational, Tactical, and Technical Intelligence. The most relevant strategic analytic model to our purposes is the one inspired by the United Nations High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change. Their report, A More Secure World–Our Shared …
Hot Topics AA: EU can insist on a withdrawal of Armenian forces from Azerbaijan 11/23/09 AA: Report: Israel set to leave Lebanese Ghajar village 11/26/09 AA: Former Mexican Prime Minister: “Chavez makes huge weapons purchases in Belarus” 11/23/09 AZ: US cannot pressure Armenia to withdraw its occupying forces from Karabakh 11/23/09 AZ: ICRC representatives in …
Hot Topics AA: Pentagon Manhunters: America’s New Murder, Inc.? 11/23/09 AA: Iran’s military forces stage war games 11/22/09 AR: Argentina forces dirty war orphans to provide DNA 11/20/09 AR: In Argentina, One Person Dies Every 28 Hours from Police Repression 11/21/09 BR: Brazil should use caution 11/25/09 BR: Italian ex-militant ends hunger strike in Brazil …
Phi Beta Iota: The Department of State (State), which should be the primary interface between the Republic, it’s policy, acquisition, and operations communities, and the rest of the world, has fewer diplomats than the Department of Defense (DoD) has military musicians; and continues to suffer persistent staffing and foreign language gaps that “compromise diplomatic readiness” …
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The future of OSINT is M4IS2. The future of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is Multinational, Multifunctional, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing & Sense-Making (M4IS2). The following, subject to the approval of Executive and Congressional leadership, are suggested hueristics (rules of thumb): Rule 1: All Open Source Information (OSIF) goes directly to the high side (multinational top secret) …
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This entire web site is about intelligence reform, at three levels; Level I: Unscrew the secret world, which spends $75B a year on the 10-20% it can steal (of which it only processes 1-6%, ultimately producing no more than 4% of what the President needs to know, and virtually nothing for anyone else. Level II: …
