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INTELLIGENCE for EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainaabilty Hardcover – January 20, 2010
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Constantly committed to truth and honesty [this work] demonstrates his ability to grasp the real issues and to take into account the views and concerns of men of good will from all nations and all cultures. --Admiral Pierre Lacoste, French Navy (Retired), Former Director of Foreign Intelligence (DGSE)
Robert Steele goes well beyond the original visions of the best of Directors of Central Intelligence, and has crafted a brilliant, sensible, and honorable future for the intelligence profession. --Major General Oleg Kalugin, KGB (Retired), Elected Deputy to the Russian Parliament.
Constantly committed to truth and honesty [this work] demonstrates his ability to grasp the real issues and to take into account the views and concerns of men of good will from all nations and all cultures. --Admiral Pierre Lacoste, French Navy (Retired), Former Director of Foreign Intelligence (DGSE)
Robert Steele goes well beyond the original visions of the best of Directors of Central Intelligence, and has crafted a brilliant, sensible, and honorable future for the intelligence profession. --Major General Oleg Kalugin, KGB (Retired), Elected Deputy to the Russian Parliament.
Robert Steele goes well beyond the original visions of the best of Directors of Central Intelligence, and has crafted a brilliant, sensible, and honorable future for the intelligence profession. --Major General Oleg Kalugin, KGB (Retired), Elected Deputy to the Russian Parliament.
Constantly committed to truth and honesty [this work] demonstrates his ability to grasp the real issues and to take into account the views and concerns of men of good will from all nations and all cultures. --Admiral Pierre Lacoste, French Navy (Retired), Former Director of Foreign Intelligence (DGSE)
Robert Steele goes well beyond the original visions of the best of Directors of Central Intelligence, and has crafted a brilliant, sensible, and honorable future for the intelligence profession. --Major General Oleg Kalugin, KGB (Retired), Elected Deputy to the Russian Parliament.
About the Author
Robert David STEELE Vivas, CEO of OSS.Net, Inc. and the pro bono CEO of EIN, is a recovering spy and the founder of the Marine Corps Intelligence Center as well as the creator of its analytic model for studying planning and programming factors for Expeditionary Operations in the Third World.
For the past twenty years he has been the foremost international proponent for Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), and more recently has embraced the Swedish concept of Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing and Sense-Making (M4IS2).
Also the #1 Amazon reviewer for non-fiction, he holds advanced degrees in International Relations and Public Administration, and is a distinguished graduate of the Naval War College.
Among his earlier analytic accomplishments are a model for the remediation of revolution across political-legal, socio-economic, ideo-cultural, techno-demographic, and natural-geographic domains.
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60 years old (the new 40) in 2012 -- raised in Caribbean, Latin America, and Asia including Viet-Nam as the son of an oil engineer. AB 1974 Muhlenberg Political Science (thesis on multinational corporations and home-host country issues), MA Lehigh University thesis on predicting revolution in all forms, then USMC Active Duty as an infantry officer and BLT 3/4 S-1 Adjutant, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, then CIA as a clandestine case officer, scored in top 10 in my class, three back to back tours overseas, one chasing terrorists, three Washington tours (counterintelligence, information technology, DCI's vault for all technical systems), CIA Mid-Career Course, invited by Marine Corps to come back as a GS-14 to help created the Marine Corps Intelligence Center, did that. That was also my fork in the road. Discovered that the secret world is largely worthless in supporting all policy, all acquisition, all operations, and totally absent in supporting Whole of Government, public education, and public research. Started the modern Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) movement against very strong resistance from CIA, went on the train 7,500 mid-career officers from across 66+ countries, wrote the DIA, NATO, and SOF OSINT Handbooks. Created a for-profit (Open Source Solutions Network, now closed) and a non-profit (Earth Intelligence Network, 501c3, lying fallow). Published a number of articles and chapters in addition to book, and am now focused on a mix of Open Source Everything (OSE) and Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing and Sense-Making (M4IS2). I remain the only persistent proponent for a national Open Source Agency to champion OSE and NOT be part of the secret world. Actively seeking a government-academic-industry sponsor or sponsor group interested in creating the World Brain and Global Game to harness and monetize the distributed intelligence of the Whole Earth.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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on February 28, 2010
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Be forewarned this is not a normal review. I have ordered this book from Amazon, but this review is based on my reading of it online something I normally don't do.
First I would note that although I admire Steele as an original and perceptive thinker I don't think this book particularly lends itself to being read online. This because Steele's approach to the issues associated with creating a Global Public Intelligence Program is actually quit complicated and, at least for this reader, will require a good deal of underlining, pondering, going back to, and researching to follow the treads of his approach. It is ponderous to do this with an online book.
So what of the online version of the book? Well first it is in many ways a distillation of ideas on collecting, processing and disseminating intelligence that Steele has been kicking around for years and has written about is his other books such "On Intelligence" and "Information Operations." Yet in other ways it presents the culmination of a complex process of analysis and research that has been probably going on for the last twenty years as Steele himself has evolved in his thinking.
The book contends that given the threat environment of the 21st Century, the security of the world transcends that of individual nation states. In Steele's view the parochial and obsessively secret approach to intelligence by individual, isolated nation states is inadequate for the challenges presented by global threats to a global population. In the most radical (and controversial) sections of his book, Steele argues for a public global intelligence system based on worldwide contributions from all people, everywhere, at all times.Read more ›
First I would note that although I admire Steele as an original and perceptive thinker I don't think this book particularly lends itself to being read online. This because Steele's approach to the issues associated with creating a Global Public Intelligence Program is actually quit complicated and, at least for this reader, will require a good deal of underlining, pondering, going back to, and researching to follow the treads of his approach. It is ponderous to do this with an online book.
So what of the online version of the book? Well first it is in many ways a distillation of ideas on collecting, processing and disseminating intelligence that Steele has been kicking around for years and has written about is his other books such "On Intelligence" and "Information Operations." Yet in other ways it presents the culmination of a complex process of analysis and research that has been probably going on for the last twenty years as Steele himself has evolved in his thinking.
The book contends that given the threat environment of the 21st Century, the security of the world transcends that of individual nation states. In Steele's view the parochial and obsessively secret approach to intelligence by individual, isolated nation states is inadequate for the challenges presented by global threats to a global population. In the most radical (and controversial) sections of his book, Steele argues for a public global intelligence system based on worldwide contributions from all people, everywhere, at all times.Read more ›
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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful
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Ralph H. Peters
on June 4, 2010
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Robert Steele is just plain wired differently, which is a wonderful thing for those with open minds--but an irritant for organization men (and women). I've read Steele's work for longer than I've known him professionally, and I've known him long enough to be bewildered by the intelligence community's determination to shut out the most creative thinker in the discipline. Part of the problem is that Steele's a fighter, not a sycophant. Had he subdued his one-man crusade for intelligence reform and, now, for the embrace of revolutionary approaches to information in humanity's interest, he easily could have become wealthy in the defense-industry sector by prostituting his ideas. He did not do so, which is a good thing for the rest of us, but has condemned Steele to an outsider status imposed by those who fear the threat his originality and integrity poses to the "Washington way of doing things." Certainly, Steele doesn't get everything right. None of us do. But his track record of foreseeing and understanding the way information has already and will continue to change the way we live, think, fight, work and even mate has no peer. Over the years, his focus has evolved and enlarged, from fighting for the moribund intelligence community to accept that a high classification does not necessarily confer value on an information product--and that open-source material may, indeed, be more valuable than satellite images or intercepts--to his present concern with the pressing need to think not only at the level of the nation-state, but in terms of a world community (not some polarizing "new world order") in which we can all "cooperate and graduate," or continue to muddle through--often bloodily. Do I always agree with Steele? No.Read more ›
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Herbert L Calhoun
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In this book, the author, drawing extensively on his intelligence and military background, has cleanly written an easy to follow book, that outlines a careful course of action for developing a new kind of global information sharing infrastructure. To be headquartered at the UN, this new infrastructure would make it possible for every organization (and through them, everyone) on the globe to share open-source intelligence equally as a free public resource. If it is successful, this new global brain could transform our world from its current insecurity-driven and corrupt corporate dominated lose-lose, economic and conflict trap, into a much revived win-win strategy for bottom-up collective survival in a peaceful and sustainable world economy.
At least that is the theoretical hope and vision. On paper, and in principle, it is a stunningly sexy and attractive vision, one that, should it prove operationally testable and feasible, could indeed have the important side benefit and advantage of creating new bottom-up wealth, energizing the world economy and easing world tensions by reducing mistrust and fear back down to the noise level.
Needless to say this is a tall order, and in the end, as always, the proof must be in the pudding. To repeat the well-known cliche: the devil is in the details. Or to use an even more apt metaphor, the difference between the "real world" and our "imagined worlds" is always in between the lines in the "fine print."
And given that most of my own experiences have occurred across the author's seven tribes, from this unenviable vantage point, I am not sanguine.Read more ›
At least that is the theoretical hope and vision. On paper, and in principle, it is a stunningly sexy and attractive vision, one that, should it prove operationally testable and feasible, could indeed have the important side benefit and advantage of creating new bottom-up wealth, energizing the world economy and easing world tensions by reducing mistrust and fear back down to the noise level.
Needless to say this is a tall order, and in the end, as always, the proof must be in the pudding. To repeat the well-known cliche: the devil is in the details. Or to use an even more apt metaphor, the difference between the "real world" and our "imagined worlds" is always in between the lines in the "fine print."
And given that most of my own experiences have occurred across the author's seven tribes, from this unenviable vantage point, I am not sanguine.Read more ›
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