2002 Manwaring (US) Asymmetry, Conflict, and the Need to Achieve Both Vertical and Horizonal Integration

The outline below does not do justice the rich spontaneous presentation that Col Dr. Max Manwaring of the Strategic Studies Institute shared with OSS ’02. Dr. Manwaring may well be America’s top authority on both “uncomfortable small wars” and on “gangs against governments.” He is the originator of the six generations of warfare (the US …

2002 OSINT 101: Basic Training in Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)

2002 SE Training Bjore OSINT 101: Sense-Making 2002 US Training Black OSINT 101: Desktop Tools for Smart People 2002 US Training Chester OSINT 101: NATO Lessons Learned 2002 US Training Henk OSINT 101 Respecting the Cultural Dimension: Intelligence and Africa 2002 US Training Hock OSINT 101: Overview of the World of Information 2002 US Training …

1994 Brief to the National Research Council Review of the Army Multi-Billion Dollar Future Communications Architecture UPDATED Full Text Online + References

It was a privilege to be asked by the National Research Council to comment on the U.S. Army’s multi-billion dollar future communications architecture.  I noticed immediately that the entire program assumed self-generated bits and bytes and made no provision, ZERO PROVISION, for acquiring and making sense of external information from anyone outside the DoD “grid.” …