I don't know of anyone that properly appreciates the fullness of the Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE) opportunity. Open source everything takes us far beyond software and hardware. Open Provisioning is central that includes free energy, unlimited desalinated water, and infinitely scalable aquaponics integrated farming and fisheries at human scale without pesticides. This matters because the best defense relies of the best diplomacy and the best development.
OSEE is also a commercial trade opportunity. Not only can we rebuild our national infrastructure with OSEE at 10-20% the cost of the failed existing paradigm that is 50% waste and 90% profit for the banks, but we can export this to all other countries and prevail on our most important allies, such as Saudi Arabia, to fund OSEE innovation and production centers across Africa and Asia.
I predicted the illegal immigration problem in my book, The New Craft of Intelligence (2002) we solve that problem by ending our funding for dictators and other repressive regimes, and by investing in development first at home Texas is a priority for me and then overseas. The best defense is a well-fed public everywhere.
Put more bluntly, the future of our country of the world depends on our moving as quickly as possible away from a centralized hierarchy reliant on secrecy and proprietary technology toward a distributed society with equal access to open source technology across all domains.
Open source information is how the President educates the public and guides all elements of the government I ghost wrote for General Al Gray his article, Global Intelligence Challenges in the 1990's, and I am proudest of his embrace of two concepts: that we must take asymmetric and unconventional threats as seriously as we took conventional standing armies; and that we must use intelligence to make the case for "peaceful preventive measures" that avoided war. Sun Tzu had it right the greatest warrior wins wars without fighting. China gets this, we do not.
Rob: You are famous as the father of the modern Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) movement, and also well known for having failed. CIA was able to kill your baby early on. What have you learned in your thirty year fight with CIA, and how would you advise the President in relation to restructuring secret intelligence on a foundation of OSINT as provided by the Open Source Agency you have proposed?
I wish in retrospect I had heeded Buckminster Fuller's wisdom, he said "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." It never occurred to me that the CIA would rather betray the public trust and keep building a worthless secret budget, instead of serving the nation more capable with inexpensive open sources. I was naà �ve.Although you ask this last, let me say that this is in my view the first priority, and central to the President's re-election if combined with #UNRIG: Election Integrity Act that makes the collective intelligence of the public the foundation for our national defense. Here is the graphic from my Trump Triumph in 3 Moves UPDATE 7 WH 4.0, Trump 2.0, #UNRIG 3.9
Note that I have proposed that the President make better use of the space now allocated to the press corps. Other locations can be found for them indeed it could be said that the National Press Club is where all government briefings should be delivered! In any event, for the White House to become a fully competent seat of governance, the President must have a grand strategy cell, a Trump Studio and truth channel oversight team, and an open source decision support unit close at hand.
This space would be the heart and soul of the President's direct relation with the American people through a Trump Studio that supports fireside chats on a daily basis (seven minutes) as well as interviews with key personnel and experts from across the government and the country. The truth channel where 200 million can opt in to receive direct access to everything while also being able to communicate to a Presidential Dashboard, will totally redefine politics in America, and end the toxic role of both corporate and foreign money, and the undue power of the two-party tyranny that enables "pay to play" legislation and budgeting.
Once the Open Source Agency is up and running, providing the President and all other key personnel with 80-90% of what they need to know, inexpensively and with the added advantage of being shareable with the public, allies, and media precisely because none of it is secret, the President can move to dismantle up to 70% of the existing secret intelligence community. I would consolidate the 30% worth saving from each of the major technical agencies into a revitalized CIA (which itself would lose 70% starting with the drone assassination program), such that CIA would have new Directorates for Signals (instead of the eliminated National Security Agency), Imagery (instead of the eliminated National Reconnaissance Office), and so on.
The President also needs to dramatically increase domestic counterintelligence. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is both incompetent and disloyal. A new Presidential Counterintelligence Task Force manned by the military with a leavening of law enforcement is needed to interview every Member of Congress about who is bribing and blackmailing them (if they cooperate they get a presidential pardon). The FBI needs to be stripped down and then built back up toward the day when we can eradicate corruption at the state and local levels the Clintons in Arkansas are the norm, not the anomaly.
The fundamental flaw of intelligence as it is practiced today in the USA is that it does not focus on the needed outputs (decision-support) but rather on the most expensive possible inputs (generally technical), and it refuses to be serious about holistic analytics and true cost economics. Below are three book reviews I did, from most important to least important, these are my latest thoughts on the subject, with extensive endnotes:
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