Worth a Look: Beyond Data Monitoring – Achieving the Sustainability Development Goals Through Intelligence (Decision-Support)

A bargain at 99 cents, with live links. 42 pages representing a lifetime of reflection and contributions from hundreds of other subject matter experts devoted to the idea that we can create a prosperous world at peace, a world that works for all. As the United Nations (UN) contemplates its most important new economic and …

Robert Steele: Open Source Intelligence 101 (Intelligence Tradecraft in the Third Millennium)

Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Robert David Steele To appear in Intelligence Tradecraft for the Third Millennium (Romania) DOC (7 Pages): Open Source Intelligence 1.3 Intelligence is the art and science of evidence-based decision-support. Intelligence is not defined by its inputs (spies, secrecy, money, risk) but rather by its outputs – tailored actionable decision-support. In this …

Mongoose: UNASUR Opens Defense School Focused on Peace and Stability

Unasur opens Defense School to elaborate a shared doctrine of peace and stability The Union of South American Nations, Unasur will celebrate this Friday its eighth anniversary with the official opening of the South American Defense School (Esude) created to instruct on defense and security issues, both at civil and military level, following ‘the principles …

Review: The End of Intelligence – Espionage and State Power in the Information Age

David Tucker 3.0 out of 5 stars A poor thesis, rotten sources, with no quality control in the literature review, January 27, 2015 This is a hugely disappointing book. It reads like a graduate thesis badly overseen (with zero in the way of serious literature search). While the author has some experience in the foreign …