Search: open source intelligence history 1.1

There is nothing new about open source information.  What is new about open source intelligence (ethical evidence-based decision-support based solely on open, legal, ethical sources and methods) is the attempt to fully integrate the proven process of intelligence (requirements definition, collection management, source discovery and validation, multi-source fusion (both machine and human), visualization (both machine …

Search: environment and the 21st century naval war at sea

15 searches for this phrase today.  It’s really three completely different concepts: 01  21st Century war at sea (submarine, surface, air, and electromagnetic) 02  21st Century sea control (special focus on non-state maritime actors) 03  21st Century maritime environment (Arctic, rising sea level, pollution, fisheries, minerals, role of the ocean as source for desalinated water, …

Search: NATO SOCOM Open Source Agency

This is an emerging possibility.  Below is the original but newly revised link on the Open Source Agency.  Central to the revision is the growing understanding within NATO, SOCOM, and AFRICOM that “traditional” C2 (proprietary) and “traditional” intelligence (secret) are Dead on Arrival (DOA).  The new meme within official circles is Alternative C2 and Alternative …

Stephen E. Arnold: Search Hits the “Big O” – Robert Steele Comments on IT’s Three Sucking Chest Wounds

Big O Explained: Why Systems Are Alike? Posted: 27 Jul 2013 04:30 AM PDT In several of my recent lectures, I pointed out that most end users cannot differentiate among search systems. The comment made about these systems is often, “Why can’t these systems be like Google?” I concluded that the similarity of requests suggests …

Search: the craft of intelligence

For reasons we do not comprehend, searching Google works better than searching within a given WordPress site. Here is the preprint, followed by the three previous “revolutionary” articles. 2012 PREPRINT: The Craft of Intelligence 3.5 2009 Intelligence for the President–AND Everyone Else 2006 Open Source Intelligence (Strategic) 2.0 1990 Intelligence in the 1990′s – Six …