IO Analysis 101
Reflections by Robert Steele
16 March 2006
NOTE: Each Slide Has Words in Notes Format.
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EXPERIENCE
Labor, Slavery, War, and Peace
Change
Desire, Emotion, Sense
Life and Death
EVOLUTION
One and Many
Cause
GOD
Eternity
Chance
Same and Other
Dialectic
Opposition
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REVOLUTION
Habit, Time
Fate
Immortality
BEING
TEMPERANCE
SCIENCE
Angel, Good and Evil, Sin, Soul
Principle
Hypothesis, Induction, Logic, Reasoning
Astronomy, Mechanics, Medicine, Physics, Mathematics
Beauty, World
Sincerity, Will
Animal
Custom and Convention, Language
Insight, Love
Happiness, Punishment
Judgment, Perspective, Wisdom
Opinion, Pleasure, and Pain
Harmony, Prudence, Virtue, and Vice
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Levels & Domains of Analysis
STRATEGIC
Integrated
Application
Military Sustainability
Geographic Location
Civil Allies
OPERATIONAL
Selection of
Time and Place
Military Availability
Geographic Resources
TACTICAL
Application of
Finite Resources
Military Reliability
Geographic Terrain
TECHNICAL
Isolated
Capabilities
Civil Stability
Civil Psychology
Military Lethality
Geographic Atmosphere
Civil Infrastructure
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Over time and space
Channels & Borders
Of strategic value
Quantities & Distribution
Internally available for use
Volatility of sectors
Training & Maintenance
Mobility implications
Cohesion & Effectiveness
Military Systems One by One
Climate Manipulation
Civil Power, Transport,
Communications,
Finance
IV - Organizational Intelligence
Out-Sourcing of
Information
Processing
Organizational
Memory System
EXTERNAL
CHUNKS
(Intellectual Property)
Patents, Etc.
Data
Visualization
III - External Information
Environmental Monitoring
Technology Monitoring
Customer Monitoring
Trade Secrets
Meta-Data
Government Monitoring
E-Commerce
TECHNICAL
Automated Analysis
Project/Group
Management
Heterogeneous
Search & Retrieval
Data
Conversion
Vendor Reporting
Knowledge Capital™
Rolodexes/E-Mail
Expert Hires
“Just Enough,
Just in Time”
Business
Intelligence
Institutionalized
Local
Knowledge
HUMAN
Training
Personal Brand
Cell #
Churning
(Rotationals)
Internal Reporting
PERSONALITY
(Insight/Intuition)
Trip
Reports
INTERNAL
I - Knowledge Management
II - Collaborative Work
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What Next?
• I recommend my briefing on my new book, which is at
www.oss.net/IO. I also recommend the one page list of
links on OSINT at www.oss.net/BASIC.
• The government needs to spend 25% of its IO money on
raw foreign collection and analysis; 25% on technology;
and 25% on selected people, most of them hired on a
“just enough, just in time” basis. The last 25% should be
allocated for fees and pass-through profit to reward
those of us that actually “know who knows.”
• Finally, we cannot do this alone. Any IO process that
does not fully integrate the Coalition and what the
members of the coalition can collect, process, analyze,
and share, is destined for failure.
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