The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Anthony Olcott 5.0 out of 5 stars 6 Star Insider-Outsider Unique Offering, March 24, 2012 This is my final review. If you are interested in what the US Intelligence Community does NOT know about open source intelligence and the global network of sources in 183 languages, this is without question the only book available in …
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NEW ARMY DOCTRINE ON “INFORMATION COLLECTION” An Army field manual published last week explains the Army’s conduct of information collection activities in military operations. “In this manual, the term ‘information collection’ is introduced as the Army’s replacement for ‘intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance’ (also known as ISR),” the manual says. “This publication clarifies how the Army …
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UPDATED 2 November 2012 to add 450-ship Navy and other military implications of intelligence with integrity
Future Trends in Global Geospatial Information Management The United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Information Management (GGIM) recently organized a meeting of thought-leaders and visionaries in the geo-spatial world to identify the future of this space over the next 5-10 years. These experts came up with some 80+ individual predictions. I’ve included some of the …
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There is so much Human Intelligence (HUMINT) embedded in this site that the automatic search results are not at all satisfactory. First off, technology is not a substitute for human intelligence, and research is not a substitute for experience. NSA still does not have a computer as good, light, fast, and agile as a human …
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Military Intelligence Gadfly Will Lead All Military Intelligence Spencer Ackerman WIRED, April 17, 2012 One of the most disruptive men in the sprawling U.S. spy community, someone who turned the military’s elite killers into top spies, will likely soon be in charge of all military intelligence. The Pentagon on Tuesday nominated Army Lt. Gen. Michael …
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How to Perfect Real-Time Crowdsourcing The new techniques behind instant crowdsourcing makes human intelligence available on demand for the first time. One of the great goals of computer science is to embed human-like intelligence in common applications like image processing, robotic control and so on. Until recently the focus has been to develop an artificial …
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