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2009/11/252011/07/24

Search: The Future of OSINT [is M4IS2-Multinational]

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The future of OSINT is M4IS2.

The future of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is Multinational, Multifunctional, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing & Sense-Making (M4IS2).

The following, subject to the approval of Executive and Congressional leadership, are suggested hueristics (rules of thumb):

Rule 1: All Open Source Information (OSIF) goes directly to the high side (multinational top secret) the instant it is received at any level by any civilian or military element responsive to global OSINT grid. This includes all of the contextual agency and mission specific information from the civilian elements previously stove-piped or disgarded, not only within the US, but ultimately within all 90+ participating nations.

Rule 2: In return for Rule 1, the US IC agrees that the Department of State (and within DoD, Civil Affairs) is the proponent outside the wire, and the sharing of all OSIF originating outside the US IC is at the discretion of State/Civil Affairs without secret world caveat or constraint. OSIF collected by US IC elements is NOT included in this warrant.

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2006/07/182009/07/18

Policy Archives on Public Intelligence (1992-2006)

Policy

2006	US	Policy	DoD	QDR Shift in Focus 18 Years After Gray and Steele Recommended Same
2006	US	Policy	Markowitz	Defense Science Board Report on Transitions (NGO, OSINT)
2006	US	Policy	Peters	Counterrevolution in Military Affairs
2006	US	Policy	Steele	Terms of Reference for Intelligence Reform 1.1
2006	US	Policy	Steele	In Search of a Leader (Four Essential Reforms)
2006	US	Policy	Steele	Electoral Refrom as Precursor to Intelligence Reform
2006	US	Policy	Tsuruoka	Managing for the Future: Interview with Alvin Toffler
2005	US	Policy	Andregg	Ethics and the IC: Breaking the Laws of God and Man
2005	UK	Policy	BASIC	Think Tank Report on US Intelligence Incompetence
2005	EU	Policy	EU	European Union Proposed Multi-National Intelligence Service
2005	US	Policy	Godson	Culture of Lawfullness
2005	US	Policy	Steele	ON INTELLIGENCE: Overview in Aftermath of 9-11
2005	US	Policy	Steele	Op-Ed on Condi Rice’s Active Deception
2005	US	Policy	Steele	Cease and desist letter on Naquin
2005	US	Policy	Tama	Princeton Review on Intelligence Reform
2004	US	Policy	Alexander	Army G-2 Accepts OSINT as Separate Discipline
2004	US	Policy	Andregg	Insanity of Planned Intelligence “Reforms”
2004	AU	Policy	Anon & Steele	Update on OSINT in Australia
2004	FR	Policy	Clerc	Cognitive Knowledge for Nations
2004	US	Policy	Cordesman	Questions & Answers on Intelligence Reform
2004	US	Policy	Cordesman & Steele	Questions & Answers on Intelligence Reform
2004	US	Policy	Simmons	Congressman Simmons Letter to General Schoomaker on OSINT
2004	US	Policy	Steele	DoD OSINT Program: One Man’s View of What Is Needed
2004	US	Policy	Steele	Transcript of Steele at Secretary of State’s Open Forum 24 March 2004
2004	NL	Policy	Tongeren (van)	Need for Global Alliance for Human Security (Complete)
2004	NL	Policy	Tongeren (van)	Need for Global Alliance for Human Security (Overview)
2003	US	Policy	Czech	Steady State Revolution and National Security
2003	CA	Policy	Fyffe	Intelligence Sharing and OSINT
2003	CA	Policy	Fyffe	Intelligence Sharing and OSINT (Summary)
2003	UN	Policy	Lewis	Creating the Global Brain
2003	US	Policy	Markowitz	OSINT in Support of All Source
2003	US	Policy	Markowitz	Open Source Intelligence Investment Strategy
2003	US	Policy	Steele	Open Letter to Ambassadors Accredited to the USA
2003	BE	Policy	Truyens	Intelligent vs. Intelligence: That Is The Question
2002	Italy	Policy	Politi	11^th of September and the Future of European Intelligence
2001	US	Policy	Heibel	Intelligence Training: What Is It? Who Needs It?
2001	US	Policy	Heibel	Value of Intelligence & Intelligence Training to Any Organization
2001	US	Policy	Oakley	Use of Civilian & Military Power for Engagement & Intervention
2000	US	Policy	Berkowitz	An Alternative View of the Future of Intellligence
2000	RU	Policy	Budzko	Russian View of Electronic Open Sources and How to Exploit Them
2000	US	Policy	Ermarth	OSINT: A Fresh Look at the Past and the Future
2000	IT	Policy	Politi	The Birth of OSINT in Italy
1999	US	Policy	Allen (ADCI/C)	OSINT as a Foundation for All-Source Collection Management
1999	UK	Policy	Rolington	Changing Messages in Western Knowledge Over 400 Years (Slides)
1999	UK	Policy	Rolington	Changing Messages in Western Knowledge Over 400 Years (Text)
1999	UK	Policy	Steele	Snakes in the Grass: Open Source Doctrine
1998	US	Policy	Donahue	Balancing Spending Among Spies, Satellites, and Schoolboys
1997	FR	Policy	Botbol	The OSINT Revolution: Early Failures and Future Prospects
1997	US	Policy	Felsher	Viability & Survivability of US Remote Sensing as Function of Policy
1997	US	Policy	Steele	Intelligence in the Balance: Opening Remarks at OSS ‘97
1997	US	Policy	Sutton	Global Coverage ($1.5B/Year Needed for Lower Tier OSINT)
1997	US	Policy	Tsuruoka	Asian Perceptions of What Is and Is Not Legal in Economic Intelligence
1997	UK	Policy	Tyrrell	Proposals to Develop a NATO/PfP OSINT Capability
1996	FR	Policy	Clerc	Economic and Financial Intelligence: The French Model
1996	US	Policy	Kahin	What Is Intellectual Property?
1996	US	Policy	Steele	Creating a Smart Nation (Govt Info Q and also CYBERWAR Chapter)
1996	US	Policy	Steele	InfoPeace: OSINT as a Policy Option & Operational Alternative
1996	US	Policy	Steele	Open Sources and the Virtual Intelligence Community
1996	US	Policy	Steele	Protecting the Civilian Infrastructure as an Aspect of Information Warfare
1996	US	Policy	Zuckerman	The Central Role of Open Source Economic Intelligence
1995	US	Policy	Prusak	Seven Myths of the Information Age
1995	US	Policy	Steele	Conference Executive Summary C/HPSCI and former DCI Colby
1995	US	Policy	Steele	Creating a Smart Nation: Strategy, Policy, Intelligence, & Information
1995	US	Policy	Steele	SMART NATIONS: NI Strategies and Virtual Intelligence Communities
1994	US	Policy	Ogdin & Giser	Cyber-Glut, and What To Do About It
1994	FR	Policy	Schmidt	Open Source Solutions 1994: The State of Intelligence
1994	US	Policy	Schwartau	Letter on NII Security
1994	US	Policy	Schwartau et al	Cross-Walk of 3 Experts' Spending $1 Billion per Year for NII Security
1994	US	Policy	Steele	Communications, Content, Coordination, and C4 Security: Talking Points
1994	US	Policy	Steele	Correspondence to Mr. Marty Harris, NII Commission
1994	US	Policy	Steele	DATA MINING: Don't Buy or Build Your Shovel Until You Know What…
1994	US	Policy	Steele	Expansion of Questions Posed by Senator John Warner to Aspin-Brown
1994	US	Policy	Steele	Letter to the Open Source Lunch Club on PFIAB Being Useless
1994	US	Policy	Steele	National and Corporate Security in the Age of Information
1994	US	Policy	Steele	Private Enterprise Intelligence: Its Potential Contribution to Nat’l Sec.
1993	FR	Policy	Beaumard	France: Think-tank to Anticipate & Regulate Economic Intelligence Issues
1993	FR	Policy	Beaumard	Learned Nations: Competitive Advantages Via Knowledge Strategies
1993	US	Policy	Brenner	Law and Policy of Telecommunications and Computer Database Networks
1993	US	Policy	Castagna	Review of Reich, The Work of Nations
1993	AU	Policy	Chantler	Need for Australia to Develop a Strategic Policy on OSI
1993	US	Policy	Cisler	Community Computer Networks
1993	US	Policy	Civille	The Spirit of Access: Equity, NREN, and the NII
1993	US	Policy	Fedanzo	A Genetic View of National Intelligence
1993	US	Policy	Haver	Intelligence Aim Veers to Amassing Overt Information
1993	JP	Policy	Kumon	Japan and the United States in the Information Age
1993	SE	Policy	Leijonhelm	Economic Intelligence Cooperation Between Government Industry
1993	US	Policy	Love	Comments on the Clinton Administration's ‘Vision' Statement for the NII
1993	US	Policy	Petersen	A New Twenty-First Century Role for the Intelligence Community
1993	GE	Policy	Schmidt	History of Failure, Future of Opportunity: Reinventions and Deja Vu
1993	US	Policy	Steele	A Critical Evaluation of U.S. National Security Capabilities
1993	US	Policy	Steele	ACCESS: Theory and Practice of Intelligence in the Age of Information
1993	US	Policy	Steele	Executive Order 12356, ‘National Security Information'
1993	US	Policy	Steele	Reinventing Intelligence in the Age of Information (TP for DCI)
1993	US	Policy	Steele	Reinventing Intelligence: The Advantages of OSINT
1993	US	Policy	Steele	Role of Grey Lit & Non-Traditional Agencies in Informing Policy Makers
1993	US	Policy	Toffler (Both)	Knowledge Strategies, Intellience Restructuring, Global Competitiveness
1993	US	Policy	Wallner	Overview of IC Open Source Requirements and Capabilities
1993	US	Policy	Wood	The IC and the Open Source Information Challenge
1992	US	Policy	Barlow	EFF and the National Public Network (NPN)
1992	US	Policy	Castagna	Review of Toffler’s PowerShift
1992	SE	Policy	Dedijer	Open Source Solutions: Intelligence and Secrecy
1992	US	Policy	Gage	Open Sources, Open Systems
1992	US	Policy	Greenwald	Unrepresented Nations & Peoples Organization: Diplomacy's Cutting Edge
1992	US	Policy	Hughes	An Affordable Approach to Networking America's Schools
1992	US	Policy	Kahin	New Legal Paradigms for Multi-Media Information in Cyberspace
1992	US	Policy	Kahn	Outline of a Global Knowledge Architecture, Visions and Possibilities
1992	US	Policy	Steele	E3i: Ethics, Ecology, Evolution, and Intelligence
1992	US	Policy	Steele	Inaugural Remarks Opening 1^st International Conference
1992	US	Policy	Steele	Information Concepts & Doctrine for the Future
1992	US	Policy	Steele	OSINT Clarifies Global Threats: Offers Partial Remedy to Budget Cuts
1992	US	Policy	Steele	Review Strassmann, Information PayOff
1992	US	Policy	Wood	Remarks, Don't Be Suspicious of Contractors
1991	US	Policy	JFK Working Group	National Intelligence and the American Enterprise: Possibilities
1991	US	Policy	Karraker	Highways of the Mind
1991	US	Policy	Steele	How to Avoid Strategic Intelligence Failures in the Future
1990	US	Policy	Steele	Recasting National Security in a Changing World
1957	US	Policy	Wright	Project for a World Intelligence Center

2006/07/182009/07/18

Military Archives on Public Intelligence (1992-2006)

Military

2005	US	Military	Steele	US Army Conference: E3i: Making the Revolution
2005	US	Military	USA	Army Modernization Briefing
2004	US	Military	Simmons	Foreword to the Draft SOF OSINT Handbook
2004	NL	Military	Wiebes	SIGINT in Bosnia
2003	US	Military	Hardee	OSINT in Support of Special Operations
2003	US	Military	Harrison	OSINT Requirements, Collection, & Production Management
2003	US	Military	Steele	SOUTHCOM: Strategic Threat Assessment
2003	US	Military	Steele	AFCEA Texas: C4I Revolution and National Security
2003?	US	Military	Steele	To SecDef: Force Structure Trade-Offs and the Real World
2002	US	Military	Hardee	Growing an Open Source Intelligence Program
2001	US	Military	Steele	AUSA: Intelligence Support to a Transforming Army
2001	US	Military	Steele	AWC: Welcome to the Real World: Force Structure Trade-Offs
2000	CA	Military	Cox	OSINT at SHAPE…Some Musings
2000	FR	Military	Debat	The Challenge of Informing European Defence Decisions
2000	US	Military	Hughes	Open Sources and Intelligent Solutions
2000	Austria	Military	Mueller	Austrian Military Intelligence Thoughts on OSINT
2000	UK	Military	Regan	The UK Ministry of Defence OSINT Program
2000	US	Military	Reynolds	U.S. Transportation Command OSINT
2000	US	Military	Steele	Briefing to NATO/PfP: One World Ready or Not
1999	US	Military	Clark	EAGLE VISION: USAF Initiative for Tactical Receipt of Imagery
1999	US	Military	Connors	PACOM Additional Slides on VIC
1999	US	Military	Connors	U.S. Pacific Command’s Virtual Information Center (VIC)
1999	US	Military	Dearth	Intelligence in the 21^st Century
1999	US	Military	Lee	Summary of Military Map Availabililty for Iran
1999	US	Military	Myers & Madison	Virtual Information Center Concept Refinement
1999	US	Military	Prinslow & Bond	Information Sharing in Humanitarian Emergencies
1999	US	Military	Steele	Overview of OSINT Issues & OSINT Utility to DoD
1999	US	Military	Steele	Setting the Stage for Information Sharing in the 21^st Century: 3 Issues
1999	US	Military	Steele	What Do We Need to Know and Where Do We Get It? (Slides)
1999	US	Military	Steele	Expeditionary Environment in the 21^st Century
1999	US	Military	Wirtz	Bridging the Culture Gap: OSINT and the Tet Offensive
1998	US	Military	Beavers & Shanahan	Operationalizing IO in Bosnia-Herzegovina (Book Chapter)
1998	SE	Military	Bjore	Open Sources and Methods for the Military
1998	SE	Military	Bjore	OSINT Lessons Learned
1998	UK	Military	Rathmell	Assessing the IW Threat from Sub-State Groups
1998	US	Military	Steele	INFORMATION PEACEKEEPING: Purest Form of War (Outline)
1998	US	Military	Steele	Skeptical Assessment of USN-USMC Based on Real-World OSINT
1998	US	Military	Steele	TAKEDOWN: The Asymmetric Threat to the Nation
1998	UK	Military	Tyrrell	OSINT: The Challenge for NATO
1997	US	Military	Alger	IATAC: Building a Knowledge Base of Emerging IAT
1997	US	Military	Clark	EAGLE VISION: Tactical Downlink Station for Imagery
1997	US	Military	Clinton	Managing Complex Contingency Operations
1997	US	Military	Molholm	DTIC: Building a Virtual Knowledge Warehouse
1997	US	Military	Necoba	The Marines and OSINT
1997	US	Military	Pedtke	National Air Intelligence Center Science & Technology OSINT
1997	US	Military	Steele	CINC Brief: The One that Got CINCSOC (Now CSA) to Buy In
1997	US	Military	Steele	Creating a Bare Bones OSINT Capability (Slides)
1997	US	Military	Steele	Creating a Bare Bones OSINT Unit for DIA
1997	US	Military	Steele	CINCSOC 10 Minute Brief on OSINT
1997	US	Military	Vesely	Striking A Balance: National, Operational, & Tactical Acquisition
1996	US	Military	Smith	Defense Mapping Agency and the Commercial Sector
1996	US	Military	Steele	Open Source Intelligence Handbook, Chapter 5, OSINT and Military
1996	US	Military	Steele	DIA/JMITC: National Knowledge Strategy & Revolution in Intelligence
1996	US	Military	Stein	Mapping, Charting, and Geodetic Needs for Remote Sensing Data
1995	SE	Military	Bjore	Six Years of Open Source Information (OSI): Lessons Learned
1995	US	Military	Dandar	Army Intelligence XXI, Open Source Status Report
1995	US	Military	Dandar	OSIF Exploitation for Army Intelligence XXI: Summary
1995	UK	Military	Garfield	Update on the UK MoD OSINT Programme (Slides)
1995	UK	Military	Garfield	Update on the UK MoD OSINT Programme (Text)
1995	US	Military	Ricardeli	OSINT in Support of Haiti Invasion (Slides)
1995	US	Military	Ricardeli	OSINT in Support of Haiti Invasion (Text)
1995	US	Military	Steele	The Military Perspective on Information Warfare: Apocalypse Now
1995	US	Military	Steele	AWC: Open Source Intelligence for the Military
1994	US	Military	Brooks & McKeeyer	Split-Based Ops in DESERT STORM: Glimpse of the Future Digital Army
1994	US	Military	Munro	INFORMATION WARFARE: Snake Eaters Meet Net-Heads
1994	US	Military	Pedtke	NAIC & The Intelligence Community Open Source Architecture
1994	US	Military	Steele	DIA/JMITC: NS via the Reinvention of National & Defense Intelligence
1992	US	Military	Clift	Military OSINT Requirements, Capabilities, and Contracting Directions
1992	US	Military	Pedtke et al	NAIC S&T Open Source Intelligence Requirements & Capabilities
1992	US	Military	Petersen	New Roles for the U.S. Military
1992	US	Military	Schwartau	Introduction to Information Warfare
1992	US	Military	Steele	Intelligence Lessons Learned from Recent Expeditionary Operations
1992	US	Military	Steele	Comments Prepared for Future War Roundtable
1992	US	Military	Strassmann	Forcing Innovation, Cutting Costs, and Increasing Defense Productivity
1991	US	Military	Steele	Defense Intelligence Productivity in the 1990's
1990	US	Military	USMC & Steele	Expeditionary Environment Research & Analysis Model
1990	US	Military	USMC & Steele	Expeditionary Mission Area Factors Summaries

2000/12/272020/12/24

2000 Cox (CA) Reflections of the former NATO Deputy N-2

Historic Contributions, Military, Peace Intelligence

Retired Army Brigadier General, with extensive UN and NATO experience. After a 38 year career, retired from the Canadian Forces in 2001. Currently work as an analyst in the Library of Parliament supporting the House of Commons Standing Committee on National Defence, the Senate Sub-Committee on Veterans Affairs and the Canada-NATO Parliamentary Assembly. Also pursuing a PhD in War Studies with the Royal Military College of Canada.

Phi Beta Iota: BGen Jim Cox, CA was the Deputy N-2 for the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) which is also the central headquarters element for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). If there is one person who can be identified as the “do-er” who took Capt Patrick Tyrrell's paper on the need for NATO OSINT, and ultimately mandated, funded, and saw through the creation of the three core NATO conceptual publications on OSINT, it would be Brigadier Cox.

2000 Cox Light Musings NATO

1997 Tyrell NTO OSINT Proposal

1997/12/222009/07/24

1997 Tyrrell (UK) Proposals for the Development of an Open Source Programme to Support NATO and PfP Activities

Historic Contributions, Military, Non-Governmental, Peace Intelligence

1997 NATO Handbooks — Commodore Patrick Tyrell, RN OBE

Without the leadership of then Capt Patrick Tyrrell, RN OBE, these handbooks would not exist today. He started the ball rolling, BGen Jim Cox, CA, then NATO and SHAPE Deputy J-2 organized a lecture to all the flag officers in charge of military intelligence, and finally directed SACLANT, then led by General William Kernan, USA, to create these first multinational doctrinal guides. Under the direct supervision of Admiral Sir William Pewone, RN, this was done over the course of two years. Below is the white paper and lecture that started it all.