The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
This is the original “Four Quadrants” slide created in the 1990’s to show the human-centered path from what we do now (still), internal knowledge management, through social network information creation to external research (humans are central) and finally to organizational intelligence where machines and humans properly managed are a perfect blend. Note J-2 is the …
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Source Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is high school–advanced is Multinational Multiagency Multidiscipline Multidomain Information-Sharing and Sense-Making (M4IS2). The fastest way to re-invent and revitalize intelligence for any nation (or region such as Africa or South America) is to create a Defense Open Source Center (DOSC) that serves as the interface between a Multinational Decision Support …
Lovely to see a search like this. Here are the core references and then a comment and then a number of other references, but the reality is that this entire website is about creating a smart nation, and world brain, and four reforms: electoral, intelligence, governance, and national security. Afterthought: all the references from the …
Graphic: 360 Degree View of the Frog Graphic: Analytic Tool-Kit in the Cloud (CATALYST II) Graphic: A Short Story-Terrorism as a Boil Graphic: Culture Simplified Graphic: Culture Complex Graphic: Definitions Graphic: Earth Systems Graphic: Engineering Interventions Graphics: Life 101-The Tetrahedron Graphic: Life 102–Open Everything Graphic: Multinational IO + OSINT = IO2 Graphic: Participatory Budget Outreach
Taliban Overhaul Their Image In Bid To Win Allies Phi Beta Iota: We’ve known since 9/11 that the asymmetric war is also marked by an asymmetric excellence in public relations, propaganda and perception management–not only do our opponents spend $1 for every $500,000 to $5 million that we spend, but they are better at this …
Turkey-Israel: Turkey and Israel no longer have the same strategic closeness as in the past, although some common strategic issues continue, Israeli military intelligence chief Amos Yadlin said today and Ynet reported. Speaking to members of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Yadlin said Turkey no longer needs strategic closeness with Israel. Turkey is …
Recurring Themes: 1) US Intelligence Community does not actually “know” where Iran is on nuclear, where Yemen is on Al Qaeda, where the Taliban is on Afghanistan….the list is long. 2) CIA and DoJ ares out of control on assessments and investigations–or they are consistently politicized. One or the other, which is it? 3) Terrorism …
