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Facing Reality

• Amilcar Cabral, African freedom fighter
  (1924-1973) Hide nothing from the masses of our
  people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they
  are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes,
  failures. Claim no easy victories. ... Our
  experience has shown us that in the general
  framework of daily struggle, this battle against
  ourselves, this struggle against our own
  weaknesses ... is the most difficult of all.
• Henry Stiller, DG of Histen Riller, at French
  Information Congress, IDT 93 95 de
  linformation dont une enterprise a besoin peut
  saquiris par des moyens honorables.
• Tony Zinni, former CINCCENT 80 of what I needed
  to know as CINCENT I got from open sources rather
  than classified reporting.  And within the
  remaining 20, if I knew what to look for, I
  found another 16.  At the end of it all,
  classified intelligence provided me, at best,
  with 4 of my command knowledge.
• Daniel Elsberg, speaking to Henry Kissinger The
  danger is, youll become like a moron.  Youll
  become incapable of learning from most people in
  the world, no matter how much experience they
  have in their particular areas that may be much
  greater than yours because of your blind faith
  in the value of your narrow and often incorrect
  secret information.
• Ted Shackley, Clandestine Covert Operations
  Leader In short, the collapse of the communist
  system in Central Europe has created a new
  situation for intelligence collectors.  I
  estimate, based in part on my commercial
  discussions since 1990 in East Germany, Poland,
  Albania, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary, that 80
  percent of what is on any intelligence agencys
  wish list for this area as of 1991 is now
  available overtly.

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This Is Reality We Go For The Green! Information-
Sharing Decision-Support
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Policy OpportunitiesDoD is Within Striking
Distance of a Major Shift

• Global War of Terrorism
• OSD(I)I still needs universal coverage down to
  neighborhood level, SOLIC needs White Hat
• Transition to and from War
• DoD Directive 3000.cc (draft) is on target
• C4I needed to NGOs, PMCs, locals, etc.
• Foreign open sources of information vital
• DoD GIG Good But Needs to Evolve Faster
• Cant collect/connect the dots on the fly
• Cant cycle connected dots back to the field
• Global grid runs from too fat to not at all

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• IDEN
• 90 day homerun for SOLIC/IR
• DoD Instruction 3000.05
• ConOps for Cross-Pollination
• Inter-Agency/Host Countries
• NGOs including UN
• Private Sector
• Corporations
• Foundations
• Find a Center of Excellence Spiral Out

• Three Open Networks
• InfoNet-M (Tampa)
• InfoNet-D (Denver)
• InfoNet-P (Seattle)

• Robert
• Three elements for IR/WWIII
• Social Networks
• Sharing Analytic Tools such as STRONG
  ANGEL/TOOZL Capt IDENs Strategic Decision
  Center and Network out of ONI
• All Data in All Languages

CENTCOM M4IS (CCC With Unclas Pit
STRONG ANGEL/TOOZL Plus Open Everything plus
Industry Skunkworks
Massive Data from Deep Web from C Drives by
Agreement
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• IDEN
• Civil Affairs Brigade 90-day homerun
• Effectual Nation-Building
• Consistent Relations Across Boundaries
• Private Sector Integration

• Robert
• Cannot forget Law Enforcement

• IDEN
• Information Asymmetries a Challenge

• Robert
• Precisely what we want to do
• Information Peacekeeping
• Information Arbitrage
• Information as Wealth Creation
• Information as Violence Reduction
• Information as Prevention
• Information as Understanding
• Sharing, not Secrecy, rules.

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• Robert
• This is not new to the UN/NGOS.
• Security-Legitimacy
• Water-Food
• Shelter
• Communications Education

• Robert
• Civil Affairs Should be Proponent
• All Threats Less Inter-State
• All Policies Less Security

CENTCOM CCC, As Is or as a Multinational Field
Agency Hosted by US Responsive to
All Stabilization Reconstruction,
Humanitarian Assistance Disaster Relief
Decision Support EARLY WARNING DS on the
matrix, Is the Center of Gravity for Going to
Next Level
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• IDEN
• Current model is killing usfocus on secrets
  that cannot be shared, hardware and ammunation
  instead of basics of securitywater, public
  health, connectivity, etcetera.
• Robert
• Need to optimize amount of information that
  stays outside the wire under civil affairs
  proponency, while feeding the beast (Maj Idens
  insight).
• Need to stop screwing around and go for the
  green
• 80 of what we need is neither secret nor
  restricted (GREEN)
• Another 16 is not secret and can be gotten on a
  case by case basis (YELLOW)
• Global information acquisition for local
  decision support
• Information creates stabilizing wealth and
  reduces violence from misunderstanding.

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• IDEN Military as hub does not resonatewhy not
  civilians?
• Robert Military is core force, only
  integrated force able to move, do, and
  communicate. Military Hubs Key to low-cost free
  offline digitization and localized acquisition.

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Regional Information Center
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Information ArbitrageConversion of Information
into Intelligence (Decision-Support), and
Intelligence Into Peace Prosperity

• Robert
• Global Awareness, Early Warning, Decision
  Support Can be Monetized
• Foundations can be offered a template for
  optimizing the impact of their spending in the
  aggregate and in isolation as part of a larger
  plan.
• Corporations can be charged for risk reduction
  security services
• Governments can be shown how to reduce internal
  disorder and increase domestic productivity.,

• Bottom Line Civil Affairs Brigade and CCC and
  UN/Etc. could
• Influence 1 Trillion a Year in Foundation
  Charitable Giving
• Influence 1 Trillion a Year in Corporate
  Stabilization Reconstruction Services
• Influence 1 Trillion a Year in Government
  Spending on War (-) versus Peace ()
• Influence 2 Trillion a Year in Transnational
  Crime by making it transparent.

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Action This Day

• Staff study on CCC to MISA migration
• Identify Invite 250 Top Guns to Summit
• USG represented by
• Public Diplomacy/US Mission to UN
• Civil Affairs/SOLIC IR
• Allocate 5M from 1 October for MISA Ops
• Consolidate all DoD contracts for unclassified
  information monitoring, all content copied to
  MISA as received/produced
• Achieve consensus at summit on need for MISA and
  a UN Assistant Secretary General for
  Decision-Support
• Create electronic receiving dock for all public
  information, and use existing special loading
  docks for migrating same to the high side as
  received.