The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
ROBERT STEELE: A large company paid me to write this in 2004, ostensibly as a white paper to be delivered to then newly-appointed DNI John Negoponte. In fairness to that company, even if they were honest on this point and not just buying my playbook, the prime contract they won with the Open Source Center …
Jan Herring, then National Intelligence Officer (NIO) for Science & Technology (S&T) was the first modern OSINT pioneer, along with George Marling and other S&T analyts. After he retired he devleoped this triangle as part of his training offered via the Academy of Competitive Intelligence, still the best institution around.
This has been around since it was created by Robert Steele in 1988, it still does not exist. How hard can this be?
Fairly straight-forward. All it requires is integrity, intelligence, and imagination. See also: Definitions: M4IS2 (Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing & Sense-Making Reference: World Brain Institute & Global Game Search: The Future of OSINT [is M4IS2-Multinational] Search: Multinational Engagement (Intelligence) Search: InfoOps (Information Operations (IO)) Search: OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) 1988-2009 OSINT-M4IS2 TECHINT Chronology
The U.S. Government is inept in all of these most basic languages. There are 183 that really matter, and close to 5,000 distinct languages and dialect where we should at least have multinational task forces fully engaged in harvesting historical and cultural wisdom while delivering modern knowledge.
With a tip of the hat to Professor John Meecham of the University of British Columbia who inspired this slide with his own depiction of mining cost recovery, this is a slide only an engineer can love at first glance, but it is really, really, important. Think on it.
This is the highest level depiction of the Expeditionary Environment analytic model created by the Marine Corps Intelligence Center (MCIC) on the basis of Robert Steele’s first graduate thesis on the remediation of revolution across multiple dimensions. With deep help from the Warfighting Center, this model ultimately defined 144 mission area factors, and in warfighter …
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