A guy at the site, IMINT & Analysis, promises to provide “Open source military analysis, strategic thinking, and Google Earth imagery interpretation.”  Mainly it looks like he has used open source information, along with Google Earth, to pinpoint SAM (and other missile) sites around the world.  Very interesting stuff.
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Could viral video and wikis be the key to successful, 21st century counterinsurgency?  RAND thinks so!  Byting Back — Regaining Information Superiority Against 21st-Century Insurgents: RAND Counterinsurgency Study — Volume 1.
Chapter Five, “Embedded Video,” and Chapter Six, “A National Wiki,” look particularly intriguing.  Of course, by “intriguing” I mean “sounds like a stretch” and “smells […]

Intelligence veteran aims to motivate young analysts
Transformation has less to do with changing procedures than with changing people. A key pillar is a suite of new information-sharing and collaborative technologies that look and feel a lot like Google, Wikipedia, and My Space, the networking and search tools that younger analysts grew up using […]

Here are a couple links to some example searches I have done using the milblog search engine that I mentioned a couple of posts back.  These searches are helping me to drill down into the discussion that has taken place on the top rated milblogs in regards to the Army’s new regulations about blogging, and […]

FCW.com News - DOD surges on biometrics 

DOD is getting more money for biometric technologies to be used in Iraq.  It’s interesting to see how biometrics and information technology are coming together here to create what we might call “bio-informatic-warfare.”  However, it seems that many of the problems here do not […]