Studies in Intelligence [pdf]

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol-64-no-1/pdfs/Studies-64-1-March-2020-UnclassifiedExtracts.pdf

by politicdone • 6 years ago

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raxxorrax• 6 years ago

Humans got disqualified in round 2. Round 1 was telling your name which 83% mastered gracefully.

0823498723498723• 6 years ago

"Lasting Wisdom of the Ancients" is interesting to diff against the Tao Te Ching, because it clarifies how (what we would express as) relatively simple messages were heavily ornamented with stylistic flourishes in this genre.

Also compare "The highest realization of warfare lies in attacking the enemy’s plans; next is attacking their alliances; next their army; while the lowest is attacking their fortified cities" with the japanese {Ki, Waza, Ken} wo korosu.

For current US literary style, see https://www.jcs.mil/Portals/36/Documents/Doctrine/pubs/jp2_0... "Intelligence should increase the commander’s understanding of the threat and adversary’s probable intentions, end states, objectives, most likely and most dangerous COAs, strengths, and critical capabilities. This allows the J-2 to recommend objectives, requirements, and centers of gravity (COGs). Once these objectives are approved by the commander, the J-2 must continuously review them with respect to the adversary and the changing situation to determine whether they remain relevant to the commander’s intent."

Edit: p9, footnote c for early (late Ming) steganography.

https://jmss.org/article/download/58139/43748/

But not as early as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histiaeus#Ionian_revolt_(499-4...

bryanrasmussen2• 6 years ago

The current US literary style clouds the message, instead of clarifying it.

unishark• 6 years ago

I can't stand this kind of writing, communicating, and conveying of ideas, concepts, and points which tries to pack, cram, and insert too damn many variations, subtleties, and nuances into each point in a sentence.

It seems like a military thing. Though I know other people that do it whenever they're trying to summarize anything tersely (and think they're succeeding when they failing terribly).

politicdone2• 6 years ago

Just lots of interesting reading in this:

Beginning in the late 1940s, the Soviet Union began building deep underground facilities at Russian sites. Those near Chekov and Sharapovo, both outside of Moscow, were notable for their heavily concealed national command authority wartime relocation functions. Disguised to look like research and development facilities to US overhead collection, they thus conveyed a deceptive imagery signature to analysts. Only persistent analysis in the early 1980s by the US Air Force Special Studies Group based on anomaly detection and change comparison over 10 years of imagery coverage eventually exposed the facilities' true purposes.

Designed principally to ensure the survivability of the top leadership and provide continuity in command and control during wartime, these exceptionally well-hidden, deep underground, facilities implied Soviet intentions and capabilities to prepare for protracted nuclear war.

0823498723498723• 6 years ago

Dr. Strangelove: "we must not allow a mineshaft gap": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybSzoLCCX-Y

A Boy and His Dog would continue the trope.

for the serious original, see p11 of https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM2206.html

politicdone2• 6 years ago

I wonder, is Dr Strangelove a parody of Wernher Von Braun?

Studies in Intelligence [pdf]

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