Search: tactical versus strategic intelligence + Meta-RECAP

An important question — the USA no longer does strategic intelligence and it has never done Whole of Government operational or tactical intelligence.  The $60B secret world is largely worthless at all four levels of analysis: STRATEGIC:  Next Generation near, 100 years our far OPERATIONAL:  Whole of Government regional and threat/topic based campaign plans, harmonized …

Search: intelligence and knowledge development

This is what NATO and Africa Command call their J-2 over-arching concept.  It is a useful concept, although it needs to be taken several steps further and also needs to be properly funded.  Right now it is a shadow puppet that lacks proper multi-lingual multinational sourcing, processing, and analysis, both human and machine.  Our over-arching …

Search: how much humint is clandestine — Response by Robert Steele + Clandestine Meta-RECAP

ROBERT STEELE:  I have been watching with growing concern as Phi Beta Iota has posted a string of relatively radical posts on the Boston bombing and Texas fertilizer explosion.  As most know, I lean toward transparency, truth, and trust, and the last thing I would want to do is marginalize these voices for truth and …

Search: osint 101/102

The most obvious “set” responding to this is 2002 OSINT 101: Basic Training in Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) We are long overdue — a decade overdue — for a complete re-visioning of OSINT as OSC/M4IS2, ideally under the dual sponsorship of NATO, White SOF, and the regional (continental) associations. See Also:

Search: meeting 21st century transnational challenges

This is the actual document from CIA (Unclassified, PDF 11 pages): Meeting 21st Century Transnational Challenges: Building a Global Intelligence Paradigm CIA continues to lack an ability to do whole systems analytics with a true cost foundation; they continue to lack a strategic analytic model for collection, processing, and analysis capable of meeting strategy, policy, …

Eagle: Harvard Berkman (Schneier & Zittrain) on IT, Security, Power

IT, Security, and Power Bruce Schneier & Jonathan Zittrain in conversation April 4, 6:00pm ET Langdell Hall South, 272 Kirkland and Ellis Classroom From Bruce Schneier: What I’ve Been Thinking About I have been thinking about the Internet and power: how the Internet affects power, and how power affects the Internet. Increasingly, those in power …