Graphic: Four Threat Classes
Created in the mid-1990’s on the basis of 1988 insights, this slide remains the fundamental depiction of the four threat classes that demand we train, equip, and organized four forces after next, not one.
Graphic: Holistic Analysis
Hard to believe, but the U.S. Intelligence Community still does not do holistic analysis, in part because most of what the U.S. Government actually needs in the way of decision-support is not secret and has nothing to do with really expensive improbable threats. ANY factor can be put in the center–the point is that ALL …
Graphic: OSINT Marketplace
The OSINT Marketplace will not fully develop until we constrain the corruption within the military-intelligence-industrial complex that substitutes “butts in seats” with clearances and precioius little else to offer, for tangible substance that can be easily shared across all boundaries. Butts in seats are a waste of time-energy. We must also stop paying more than …
Graphic: OSINT Multinational Information Operations
This slide, originally created for THE NEW CRAFT OF INTELLIGENCE was morphed to address needs in a briefing to the Coalition Coordination Center (CCC) in Tampa within the U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM). This remains the core time-energy slide for harnessing the distributed intelligence of the Whole Earth leveraging multinational multifunctional information-sharing and sense-making agreements.
2006 Searching for Bin Laden: The Use of Intelligence in the War on Terror or How NOT to Spend the Taxpayer’s Treasure
2006 The Failure of 21st Century Intelligence (Followed by SPY IMPROV)
One of the magical things about the “wealth of networks” is the value-added that can come from voluntary social production. Governments and businesses are only now beginning to understand this, and most do not yet understand that the future is about hybrid open everything. Below, with a tip of the hat toEli Courtwright who says: …
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