The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
You ask, Is M4i2 a philosophy or a process (like C2)? I want to answer that question in three ways: M4IS2 is a philosophy. M4IS2 is a process that must integrate Holistic Analytics (HA), True Cost Economics (TCE), and Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE) M4IS2 at the highest level is a spiritual alignment of humanity …
I am delighted to see you focusing on the necessary migration from C4 to M4IS2. You have asked me how these concepts can be correlated. C4 is rooted in technology while M4IS2 is rooted in humanity. C4 stands for command & control, communications, and computing. Generally the term used is C4I, adding intelligence, and the …
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SOCMINT, or “Social Media Intelligence” is both an oxymoron and a scam. What is really going on here is budget building — people creating work to justify more senior positions and larger budgets. SOCMINT is far removed from reality and particularly far removed from real people both within the USA and abroad. We know that …
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Sir, I constantly encounter two issues: First, the spies think that Wikileaks and everything online is OSINT, they do not factor in analog sources or even human sources that are not controlled agents. Second, and related, they think that the best open source information is to be found within the government agencies, and do not …
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Sir, How correct is the given depiction by Mr Gibson (PhD Thesis)?
Sir, Do you have any case study on some OSINT op? How does one persuade a Station Head to use OSINT in support of his clandestine and technical operations? I am finding that there is more information about secret successes than there is about OSINT successes at the same time that OSINT was eclipsed by …
Sir: In my paper, I am including ‘What OSINT is not’. Imagine that you are telling a stubbornly dedicated SIGINT operator about OSINT. The operator believes OSINT to be some simple net surfing used for gaining cursory information on anything. Or he relates OSINT to needle-in-haystack kind of discipline where discoveries are made by chance. …
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