Reference: National Plan to Achieve Maritime Domain Awareness (October 2005)

This is a good plan, a model for others to follow, as far as it goes.  It is an Industrial-Era plan that focuses on the man-made and ignores the “Sea State” that should be our larger concern.  Noteworthy is the emphasis on information-sharing andd sense-making.  Also noteworthy is the specific attention to international and domestic …

Testimony: White Paper for DCI John Negoponte on Leveraging OSINT to Enhance CIA/IC Mission Success

ROBERT STEELE: A large company paid me to write this in 2004, ostensibly as a white paper to be delivered to then newly-appointed DNI John Negoponte. In fairness to that company, even if they were honest on this point and not just buying my playbook, the prime contract they won with the Open Source Center …

Reference (1996): The Brown Commission and the Future of Intelligence

The Brown Commission and the Future of Intelligence A Roundtable Discussion On 1 March 1996, the Commission on the Roles and Capabilities of the United States Intelligence Community (the Brown Commission) issued its report to the President and to Congress. On 26 March, Studies in Intelligence board members Brian Latell, Robert Herd, John Wiant, and …