This is the second edition of the book, identical in all respects to the first but with the addition of a single page detailing the six intelligence and counterintelligence failures that allowed the 9/11 attacks to occur. This book is about the reinvention of national, defense and business intelligence within the larger context of an open world--a world where "Evil Empires" and the Berlin Wall have fallen--but 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 governments--and 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. 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.

On Intelligence: Spies and Secrecy in an Open World

Robert David Steele

OSS International Press

Each year millions of people die, are displaced, become diseased, or suffer severe depravations at the hands of rogue states, predatory ethnic groups or tribes, or ruthless terrorist and criminal organizations. Around the globe, while recognizing the important efforts of selected Nation-States and selected Non-Governmental Organizations, only one organization can be said to be truly concerned with global security and global prosperity in the common interest of all mankind: the United Nations. Unfortunately, the United Nations has chosen to ignore the proven process of "intelligence" by confusing it with espionage. Intelligence is not about espionage, it is about rationalized decision-support in which global sources of information in many languages and many mediums (oral, written, imaged) are deliberated collected, processed, analyzed, and presented to decision-makers in order to reduce uncertainty, suggest alternatives, and otherwise make instability more manageable. This book is the first book to bring together a combination of experienced United Nations military commanders, experienced national intelligence leaders, and scholars of United Nations and insurgency history. It combines the results of the first annual conference on peacekeeping intelligence help in The Netherlands in November 2002, with eight seminal works from the past, and three vital references for the future--extracts from the Brahimi Report with intelligence-related footnotes; a completely new Peacekeeping Intelligence Leadership Digest 1.0 distilled from the entire book into 35 pages; and pointers to both the three North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) doctrinal documents on Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), and to a selective group of recent references, most available online. This book is, in essence, "Ref A" for the future of intelligence at the United Nations.

Peacekeeping Intelligence: Emerging Concepts for the Future

Wies Platje

Ben de Jong

My personal view is that the key points of the book are that: 
• inter-agency sharing of non-secret information is much more important than precision delivery of secrets to the top guy; 
• unclassified information on operations, logistics, beliefs, etc. is much more important that technical secret information; and 
• there is a larger process called "Information Operations" (IO) that has been mis-defined in the US as offensive cyberwar and PSYOP on steroids, which in fact deals with 
• the full and constant integration of global coverage in all languages all the time (including historical and cultural knowledge at the neighborhood level); 
• the technologies of sharing, translating, and understanding; inclusive of online video gaming; and 
• the crafting of inter-agency BEHAVIOR and BUDGETS (means) in order to achieve useful ends. 
In short, it's not about secret intelligence; it is about global awareness and ethical behavior done across all the instruments of national power, wisely. As Dr. Cambone demands, we need universal coverage, 24/7, at sub-state levels of granularity, but we also need to act on that information in a timely as well as ethical manner, utilizing all of our resources, not just our military, and harmoniously integrating our intelligence and operational activities with those of other legitimate governments and non-governmental organizations.

Information Operations: All Information, All Languages, All the Time

Book by Robert David Steele (Vivas)

THE SMART NATION ACT: Public Intelligence in the Public Interest

Politics & Social Sciences

Robert David Steele (Vivas)

Politics & Government

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On Intelligence: Spies and Secrecy in an Open World

Peacekeeping Intelligence: Emerging Concepts for the Future

Information Operations: All Information, All Languages, All the Time

THE SMART NATION ACT: Public Intelligence in the Public Interest