The Three Types of Insurgencies
There’s a sizable number of those in the Patriot community who believe that restoring Liberty will come to violence and, of those, a great number believe that an insurgency is the way forward....
View ArticleSocial Bases and Insurgent Groups
I was sitting at the urgent care doctor’s office on Saturday (I’m fine) when the doc comes in. I’m reading Networks of Rebellion: Explaining Insurgent Cohesion and Collapse . He starts to ask me a...
View ArticleOne Reason Why Boko Haram Still Exists
One of the reasons why I harp so much on Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) collection is because there are hundreds of millions of intelligence gatherers around the world. Every blog, every website,...
View ArticleFive Things We Can Learn from Chechnya’s Guerrilla Wars
Chechnya is a very fascinating place (it’s a little smaller than the state of New Jersey – did you know?). I’ve been reading a bunch of stuff about its history, spurred by reading Chapter 7 of Urban...
View ArticleAttacking the Center of Gravity
One thing I teach in advanced Intelligence classes is what’s called “Center of Gravity” analysis. That’s a concept first described by Prussian military strategist and “cerebral savage” Carl von...
View ArticleSecret Agents & Voluntary Informers (SWM 1940)
I’m filling in a few spots in the Community Intelligence Manual (Print&Ebook, Print, Ebook) by going back into some of my old manuals published when, you know, they didn’t have billion dollar...
View ArticleTargeting: An Exercise in Generating Intelligence Requirements
I was talking with a new acquaintance about intelligence support to targeting and why I don’t say much about it or the targeting cycle. There may not be any good reason why I don’t talk about...
View ArticleOn Developing Actionable Intelligence
(Admin Note: I hope that everyone has a great Fourth of July. Take a day off and enjoy some time with friends and family; celebrate and get reacquainted with this nation’s Founding. I certainly will....
View ArticleGoing for the Brain: Why al-Qaida Attacks Yemen Intelligence Buildings &...
I haven’t been keeping up with the four-sided war in Yemen probably as much as I should be. One thing I’ve noticed about the fighting, however, is a concerted effort by al-Qaida in the Arabian...
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