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2004 Mazzafro (US) Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and Global Issues

GOLDEN CANDLE AWARD: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory OSS ’04: To the JHU-APL, and especially to Capt Joseph Mazzafro, USN (Ret) and Dr. Michael Vlahos, for sustained excellence in the integration of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) into their complex all-source analytic efforts in support of the Department of Defense.  Aided by the Gibson Library, …

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2004 (US) Spinney Water and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Chuck Spinney, who contributes highlighted items to the Journal of Public Intelligence, wrote the original modern book on defense waste and the plans/reality mismatch, shown below with a link to its Amazon Page. Although not a professional intelligence analyst, Spinney is a deeply-experienced real-world analyst and understands the lunacy of building a strategy, a force …

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2004: Information Peacekeeping A Nobel Objective

Click here for briefing with notes:  Information Peacekeeping 1.1-1 Following the Netherlands Intelligence Studies Association (NISA) first conference on Peacekeeping Intelligence, out of which came the book, PEACEKEEPING INTELLIGENCE: Emerging Concepts for the Future, there was a conference in Canada that produced a book that is both overpriced and overly academic.  The third conference, in …

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2004 Defense Science Board Report on Strategic Communication

Strategic Communications became the buzzword of the decade, along with Information Operations (IO), and it is still sorting itself out.  We have a problem: you cannot manipulate perceptions much out of whack with reality–reality has a way of being pervasive, intrusive, compelling, and inevitable.  Still, this report was very important in part because it demonstrated …

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