OSINT Historic Contributions Directory (List)
Creating a Smart Nation–and a World Brain–demands the participation of all of the people all of the time.
1957+ Story Board: Peace & Prosperity Through Ethical Evidence-Based Decision-Support — Analytic Sources, Models, Tools, & Tradecraft
Campaign for Liberty: Steele on IC and DoD
National Intelligence and National Defense By Robert David Steele Vivas Published 06/17/11 Right up front, here is the value proposition: a revolution in national security affairs can immediately deliver three things: 1. Permit the rapid (four years) reduction of the secret intelligence community budget from $80 billion to under $20 billion and permit the rapid …
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Defense Science Board to DoD: Get Brain + RECAP
Advisers urge military to rely less on drones, more on expertise Eli Lake, 1 June 2011 The Washington Times Military operations in Afghanistan rely too much on intelligence gathered by unmanned drones, often exclude important publicly available data and do not focus enough on the recruitment of human agents, a Pentagon report says. The report …
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Bob Gates, Chief Maintenance Clerk, Talks Crap — and the Wall Street Journal Goes Along…
The Gates Farewell Warning America can be a superpower or a welfare state, but not both. Phi Beta Iota Sidenote: BOTH of the above “choices” are corruption incarnate. The correct choice was articulated by Thomas Jefferson: “A Nation’s best defense is an educated citizenry.” EXTRACT: In a series of farewell speeches, Mr. Gates has warned …
REVOLUTION 2.0 CLOSED 17 May 2011
16 May 2011 BAHRAIN: How radical are Bahrain’s Shia? EGYPT: Could Egypt’s revolution become mirage in the desert? IRAN-BAHRAIN: Iranian ships carrying aid to Bahrain turned back in Persian Gulf IRAN-SYRIA: ‘Nakba’ clashes: Iran, Syria trying to turn Arab Spring fury into attacks on Israel? ISRAEL: The Arab Revolution is knocking at Israel’s door LEBANON-SYRIA: …
Worth A Look: Book on CIA’s View of Open Sources
Hamilton Bean $49.95, 218 pages Available for Pre-Order, 31 May 2011 Phi Beta Iota: Mr. Bean means well, but this is a three star book at best, losing one star for being grotesquely over-priced and a second for being completely out of touch with the Open Source Intelligence world outside the albino incest pit at …
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