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Professor Walter Dorn is the virtual Dean of peacekeeping intelligence scholarship, going back to the Congo in the 1960's when Swedish SIGINT personnel spoke Swahli fluently and the UN stunned the belligerents with knowledge so-gained. This is the final published version of the article posted earlier in author's final draft.

The UN is now ready for a serious discussion about a United Nations Open-Source Decision-Support Information Network (UNODIN) but a Member nation must bring it up, as the Secretary General has kindly informed us in correspondence.

In the absence of US interest, we are asking Brazil, China, and India to bring it up. Should a UNODIN working group be formed, it will certainly include African Union (AU), Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), and Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) counterpart groups, as the regional networks will do the heavy lifting and be the super-hubs for the UN (this is in contrast to a US DoD-based system in which military-to-military hubs would be established to do two-way reachback among the eight tribes in the respective nations). Both concepts are explored in the new book, INTELLIGENCE FOR EARTH and in two DoD briefings that are also relevant to the QDR.

2010/01/022010/12/25

Graphic: UN Tools & Methods (Walter Dorn) Updated

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Dorn UN PKI Tools & Methods 2010 — Updated UN Tools & Methods

The above first appeared in “The Cloak and the Blue Beret: Limitations on Intelligence in UN Peacekeeping, chapter 19 in PEACEKEEPING INTELLIGENCE: Emerging Concepts for the Future. His earlier article “Intelligence and Peacekeeping: The UN Operation in the Congo, 1960-1964” remains the single best exposition of how to use intelligence as the foundation for successful peacekeeping.

Dr. Dorn updated the above for the forthcoming Oxford Handbook on National Security Intelligence (Loch Johnson, Ed., March 2010 release) and shared the updated version above via electronic mail.

2009/12/302011/06/20

Reference: Civil Military Operations Center (CMOC)

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The full title is “The Civil Military Operations Center (CMOC) in Operation Uphold Democracy (Haiti). Although dated March 1997, this is a very fine contribution that maintains its relevance, not least because of its descriptions of both the functions and the effect of the functions in dealing with NGOs (like herding turkeys).

For best effect, also read Reference: Walter Dorn on UN Intelligence in Haiti.

2009/12/302010/12/25

Graphic: UN Joint Military Analysis Center (Dorn)

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Graphic JMAC Haiti — JMAC from Dorn MINUSTAH

This is a very simplified version for public consumption from Dorn 2009. In the Congo MajGen Cammaert was obliged to spend a great deal of time on geospatial information that was not “on the shelf” (utlimately The Netherlands spent USD 3 million to meet his prioritized needs as shown at Graphic: CD (Congo) 1:50,000 Combat Chart Shortfalls. There are also considerable technical collection and processing capabilities that can be deployed when air breather imagery as well as tactical signals assets can be included in the mandate and force structure.

2009/12/222011/06/20

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2009/12/192010/01/12

Reference: Walter Dorn on UN Intelligence in Haiti

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UPDATE: Superceeded by final published version a tReference: Intelligence-Led Peacekeeping

Phi Beta Iota: Dr. Walter Dorn is one of a tiny handful of truly authoritative academic observers of UN intelligence, a pioneer in his own right, and perhaps the only person who has followed UN intelligence from the Congo in the 1960's to the creation of new capabilities in Haiti and elsewhere in the 21st Century. He is the dean of UN intelligence authors. See also Who’s Who in Peace Intelligence: Walter Dorn.

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Reference: Intelligence-Led Peacekeeping

Graphic: UN Tools & Methods (Walter Dorn) Updated

Reference: Civil Military Operations Center (CMOC)

Graphic: UN Joint Military Analysis Center (Dorn)

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Reference: Walter Dorn on UN Intelligence in Haiti