Secrecy New Extract: DIA Seeks to Classify Reality

PENTAGON DELAYS PUBLICATION OF NEW BOOK The Department of Defense says that a forthcoming book about the war in Afghanistan contains classified information, and that it should not be put on the market in its current form.  Instead, the Pentagon is considering whether to purchase and destroy the entire first printing of the book, “Operation …

Search: osint

Searching for osint on this web site is like searching for Steele as an author among all the other authors–the entire site lines up.  However, since 4-6 people do this search daily, we’ve decided to give them an easy first hit. OSS.Net, Inc. Basic Reference of Links 2008 Open Source Intelligence (Strategic) 2008 Open Source …

Journal: Army Industrial-Era Network Security + Cyber-Security RECAP (Links to Past Posts)

Army Times article, second below, reports what the beginning of what I expect will be a major decline in functionality of Army computer systems.  While some sort of institutional response to the alleged Wikileaks traitor, Specialist Bradley Manning, is appropriate, I don’t think this is it.  This is a simplistic approach, the sort of thing …

Graphic: Core Force for Multinational and Whole of Government Operations

This graphic was created for a lecture to Eastern European Parliamentarians at the George C. Marshall Center in the mid-tolate 1990’s.  Many understood back then that the Department of Defense (DoD) was the only element of the U.S. Government (USG) capable of serving as a hub or backbone for USG Whole of Government and dynamic …

NATO on YouTube: Selective Summaries (5)

NATO You-Tube Front Page Phi Beta Iota Summary: Where should NATO go on out-of-area expeditionary operations?  How does NATO define security & stability?  How does NATO achieve balance between territorial defense and expeditionary operations, and between the voice of the big nations and the small nations?  What is defense?  What is 360 degree defense in …

Journal: Multinational Transformation

A few thoughts: 1)  Information-sharing and sense-making is “root” for multinational operations. 2)  Education, intelligence, and research must all be open and multinational in nature. 3)  Peaceful preventive measures rooted in open education and intelligence are the foundation. 4)  Precision covert and clandestine multinational operations are the intermediate capability. 5)  Hybrid operations by all eight …

Bangladesh Farmers + ICT, Increasing Awareness to Increase Income, Model for Other Countries

eKrishok Farmers wise up online by Nahid Akhter (Aug 20, 2010) (clipped from full article) Bangladeshi farmers have to go through numerous hardships. Natural calamities cannot be avoided. However, if the farmer knew when to expect one and thereby take appropriate preventive measures, maybe some of his crops could be saved. Besides natural calamities, he …