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2010/01/132010/01/13

Journal: Haiti–Ready for a Rapid-Response Open-Source-Intelligence-Driven Inter-Agency Multinational Multifunctional Stabilization & Reconstruction Mission…

AP: Injured Haitians plead for help after quake Haitians piled bodies along the devastated streets of their capital Wednesday after the strongest earthquake hit the poor Caribbean nation in more than 200 years crushed thousands of structures, from humble shacks to the National Palace and the U.N. peacekeeping headquarters. Untold numbers were still trapped. Destroyed …

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2010/01/122010/01/12

Reference: COIN Dynamic Planning, Full Text Found

Phi Beta Iota: The below material is a bit cluttered as it was built up over time as the individual pieces came to light. The important point in our view is that each element of the dynamic planning model is an intelligence (decision-support) requirement, and the U.S. Intelligence Community is completely unable to address of …

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2010/01/122010/01/12

Journal: MILNET Intelligence Headlines

Can Intelligence Be Intelligent? (Wall Street Journal) By BRET STEPHENS JANUARY 12, 2010 Exhibit A is last week’s unclassified White House memo on the attempted bombing of Flight 253 over the skies of Detroit. Though billed by National Security Adviser Jim Jones as a bombshell in its own right, the memo reads more like the …

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2010/01/112010/01/11

Reference: UN Checklist for Small Arms

UNIDIR (United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research) has produced a superb checklist approach to the mission of reducing the proliferation of small arms, which kill and maim and orphan tens of millions at a time. The Director of UNIDIR at the time, Dr. Patricia Lewis, was the first UN official in modern times to contemplate …

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2010/01/112010/01/11

Journal: MILNET Headlines

Interview With Admiral Mullen by Fareed Zakaria, CNN Transcript and YouTube Interview with General Patraeus by Christine Amanpour, CNN Story There’s ‘Work To Be Done,’ 9/11 Commission Chairs Say (Lee Hamilton, Thomas Kean) The war of new words: Why military history trumps buzzwords (Willam F. Own) Let’s Take Bureaucracy Out Of Intelligence (John Bolton) Beating …

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2010/01/092010/01/09

Reference: WH CT Summary, POTUS Directive, DNI Blurb

EDIT of 9 Jan 10: Note seven comments from retired senior officers. Critique of the CT Summary for the White House This is a negligent piece of work that fails to include all that is known merely from open sources of information, but more importantly its judgments are misdirected. This incident remains incompletely investigated until …

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2010/01/082010/01/08

Search: QDR OSINT

Spectacular search and most welcome. Below are two of the slides from the DoD OSINT Leadership Briefing. The colorful slides are all in the DoD OSINT Staff Briefing. See also the following collections relevant to getting DoD OSINT up to flank speed for policy support, acquisition support, and of course operational support beginning with Afghanistan, …

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