Avoiding the Secrecy Trap in Open Source Intelligence
Establishing an Independent Open Source Agency Without Security Clearances OPINION — Disclaimer: Integrating the Intelligence Community (IC) after the failures of 9/11 was the challenge […] More
Establishing an Independent Open Source Agency Without Security Clearances OPINION — Disclaimer: Integrating the Intelligence Community (IC) after the failures of 9/11 was the challenge […] More
ANALYSIS/INTERVIEW — Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Moscow this week demonstrates Beijing’s strongest support yet for Russian President Vladimir Putin and the China-Russia alliance, […] More
Kyiv, Ukraine – As Ukraine announces a planned counteroffensive in the Spring, the head of the country’s Main Intelligence Directorate, Major General Kyrylo Budanov, is […] More
OPINION — A threat to the law that helped locate al-Qaeda’s Ayman al-Zawahiri, a bureaucratic National Archive change that could further delay release of classified […] More
OPINION — We asked our students and colleagues a few questions recently. While sitting at home on your couch, did you see satellite images of […] More
OPINION — Today’s Intelligence Community (IC) open source capability is neglected, structurally compromised, and wholly inadequate to protect the United States. The failure of open […] More
OPINION — After China’s Xi Jinping consolidated his power this year, private and public-sector China watchers reflexively assigned a negative prognosis for US-China relations and […] More
OPINION – For those who have been privileged enough to read, write for, or brief the Intelligence Community’s President’s Daily Brief (PDB), the following quote […] More
“Just as we pulled together as a nation in the early days of the space race, we simply must redouble our efforts to develop the […] More
Andrew Borene is the Associate Vice President for Research at National Intelligence University and a cadre officer of the Office of the Director of National […] More
PRIVATE SECTOR PERSPECTIVE — National security leaders know that adapting faster to escalating change and nation-state competition is imperative, yet how to choose the most […] More
It’s possible that the terrorist leader, wanted for his role in plotting the 9/11 attacks and later becoming the head of al Qaeda after the […] More
EXPERT PERSPECTIVE: The presence of drones/UAV’s in armed conflicts as varied as Syria, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Ukraine is not only influencing military tactics and strategy but it’s […] More
ACADEMIC INCUBATOR — In January, as Putin prepared to invade Ukraine, two Chinese companies signed long-term agreements with Russian firm PAO Novatek to buy liquified […] More
In Part I of this Opinion Series on Innovation, I explained How the Intelligence Community Kills Ideas and specifically illustrated how IC bureaucracy crushed employee […] More
EXPERT PERSPECTIVE: Superlatives have been piling up about a weapon of war that’s been around for decades, but has taken on new prominence across the battlefields […] More
ESSAY — Never underestimate the power of a well-written satire to challenge conventional wisdom. A year or so after the Iraq war had made a […] More
EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — When I was just starting out at CIA, there was an analyst in my group who worked in a particularly methodical way. […] More
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