On Intelligence: Spies and Secrecy in an Open World

This book is about the reinvention of national, defense and business intelligence within the larger context of an open worlda world where "Evil Empires" and the Berlin Wall have fallenbut also a world where transportation, power, financial, and communications infrastructures are so open as to dramatically increase the vulnerability of America to trans-continental epidemics, anonymous information terrorism, and nation-wide power black-outs and financial melt-downs. As the world enters the Information Century, and simultaneously confronts the fragmentation of many nation-states and the emergence of widespread ethnic, tribal and criminal gang terrorism and confrontation, no topic can be more important to federal, state, and local governmentsand to international, national, and local businesses than the topic of "intelligence". Thankfully, there are many positive lessons and methods to be drawn from the U.S. Idrawn upon to make both government and business "smarter" about their environment, their customers, and their competitors. This book is a primer on the role of the intelligence Community, and there are a wealth of open sources and services that can be drawn upon to make both government and business "smarter" about their environment, their customers, and their competitors. This book is a primer on the role of intelligence qua sources, methods, and community at the dawn of the 21st century.

Biographies & Memoirs

Steele, Robert David

True Crime

Afcea Intl Pr

This book is the sequel to ON INTELLIGENCE: Spies and Secrecy in an Open World (AFCEA International Press, 2000). That book, written largely for government and corporate intelligence professionals, remains the basic reference volume for the future of global intelligence enterprises. This book, by contrast, is a completely new effort that is written for every citizen of every country—the "intelligence minutemen" of the 21st Century. In the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, attacks carried out by a non-state actor skilled at asymmetric warfare and using our own capabilities against us—attacks followed quickly by a nation-wide anthrax assault that closed Congress and terrified the U.S. Postal Service—it is imperative that every citizen have a clear-headed understanding of what is at stake and what needs to be done to keep not only America, but all civilized communities safe. It is especially imperative that citizens understand that the world is already at war, with millions of refugees in 67 countries, plagues sweeping across 59 countries, mass starvation in 27 countries, and deliberate genocide campaigns in 18 countries. These are "facts of life" that our schools, our media and even our intelligence communities have been unwilling and unable to represent intelligently to the public. It is against this backdrop of global chaos that terrorism rises.

The New Craft of Intelligence: Personal, Public and Political

Computers & Technology

Computer Science

Oss Pr

The Department of Defense (DoD) has made major strides in the development of concepts and doctrine for Information Operations (Io). In a substantive break with past traditions, the Secretary of Defense has made the U.S. Strategic Command (Usstratcom) and the U.S. Special Operations Command (Ussocom) supported commands rather than supporting commands. Usstratcom has the national mission and is taking the lead in Io. Ussocom has the national mission and is taking the lead in the Global War on Terror (Gwot). Across all other Combatant Commands, and within all services and agencies of DoD, the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence (Usdi) is sponsoring transformative leap-ahead endeavors in Strategic Communication, Open Source Intelligence (Osint), and Joint Intelligence Operations Commands or Centers (Jioc) focused on interagency and interservice information-sharing and collaboration.

Information Operations: Putting The “I” Back Into Dime

Education & Teaching

Institute, Strategic Studies

Schools & Teaching

lulu.com

What the world lacks right now—especially the United States, where every form of organization from government to banks to labor unions has betrayed the public trust—is integrity. Also lacking is public intelligence in the sense of decision-support: knowing what one needs to know in order to make honest decisions for the good of all, rather than corrupt decisions for the good of the few.
The Open-Source Everything Manifesto is a distillation of author, strategist, analyst, and reformer Robert David Steele life's work: the transition from top-down secret command and control to a world of bottom-up, consensual, collective decision-making as a means to solve the major crises facing our world today. The book is intended to be a catalyst for citizen dialog and deliberation, and for inspiring the continued evolution of a nation in which all citizens realize our shared aspiration of direct democracy—informed participatory democracy. Open-Source Everything is a cultural and philosophical concept that is essential to creating a prosperous world at peace, a world that works for one hundred percent of humanity. The future of intelligence is not secret, not federal, and not expensive. It is about transparency, truth, and trust among our local to global collective. Only "open" is scalable. As we strive to recover from the closed world corruption and secrecy that has enabled massive fraud within governments, banks, corporations, and even non-profits and universities, this timely book is a manifesto for liberation—not just open technology, but open everything.

The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust (Manifesto Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

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