The future of OSINT is M4IS2. The future of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is Multinational, Multifunctional, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing & Sense-Making (M4IS2). The following, subject to the approval of Executive and Congressional leadership, are suggested hueristics (rules of thumb): Rule 1: All Open Source Information (OSIF) goes directly to the high side (multinational top secret) …
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Recommended by Researcher Berto Jongman. 2009-11-15 UN Overview of Terrorism Research Desirata Gestation 2009-11-15 UN List of Terrorism Research Priorities Phi Beta Iota: Researcher Berto Jongman is a disciple and most respectful student of the work of Alex Schmid and more recently, the Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) practices of Researcher Arno Reuser, who leads one …
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Albert J. (Berto) Jongman (1955) majored in western sociology at the University of Groningen in 1981. During his studies he gained practical experience as a research assistant at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) in Sweden. From 1982 to 1987 he worked as a researcher at the Polemological Institute of the University of Groningen …
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Hot Topics CD: Protest in DRC over insecurity 11/01/09 CF: Children bearing brunt of Central African Republic’s troubles, says UNICEF offic 10/21/09 DZ: Algeria: Al-Qaeda failing to attract recruits govt claims 10/30/09 ET: Can Ethiopia’s Electoral Code Guarantee Fair Elections? 11/01/09 ET: Ethiopia: 3 soldiers defect to Eritrea 10/31/09 GM: Former military police commander calls …
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Phi Beta Iota: This started as a short list for the various college and university engineering students that have dialed in, but as we got into it, it became more of a “situational awareness” inventory pulling together both technical “solutions” none of which have been integrated yet, and analytic “requirements” none of which have been …
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Important Essays, Left Me Blase October 13, 2009 Thomas Pogge and Keith Horton, Editors The three best things I can say about this volume: 1) A heroic work that carefully selected important essays on global ethics from the past 40 years (the book itself, Australian in origin, is published for the first time in 2008). …
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