Okay, so this is a different kind of survival I am bring to the Survival Forum area through
Open Source Intelligence
I have been going to the library since I was six years old, having stories read by the librarian, reading books I found, researching books I was
interested in, and either staying in the library to read them, or checking them out and taking them home. Needless to say, I am an avid reader,
currently I choose to buy books either on Amazon or at the local branch of Barnes and Noble, still two other locations you can do the same exact thing
as you can at the library, the only difference there of course is instead of checking out your books, you're buying them, and either having them
stuck into a plastic bag with a receipt, or having it shipped to your home address.
Open source intelligence as defined by the previous link within the first sentence of this post, through words I've chosen here as follows :
Utilizing discipline in order to gather information, through finding, being selective, and targeting information from publicly open sources and
analyzing it to produce actionable intelligence
Having stated this, here are a few examples of open source intelligence :
* Media
*Public Data - Government Records - F.O.I.A. - Freedom Of Information Act
* Professional - Conferences, Organizations, Term Papers, Subject Matter Experts - Odd isn't it, ATS has FSME's, or Forum Subject Matter Experts,
huh? I'm a
Blackwater Expert,
ask and I'll help.
Having stated all the previous, here are seven books I grabbed randomly off the library shelves in the local area I live in, and every single one of
them talks about topics that ATS'ers are rabid about, either through wanting to talk about the conspiracies within them, or in defending them because
of the person's pro-government thoughts.
Opera
tion Gatekeeper: The Rise of the 'Illegal Alien' and the Remaking of the U.S.-Mexico Boundary
Review on Amazon
From Library Journal
In October 1994, the Immigration and Naturalization Service began Operation Gatekeeper. Its goal was to reduce the movement of Mexicans across the
U.S. border between San Diego and Tijuana. Nevins (Berkeley), who writes for the Nation, the Progressive, the Los Angeles Times, and other
publications, examines this operation in the context of immigration between these two countries. A historical account of the United States-Mexico
border shows that, up through recent times, the movement of peoples between the two countries was of relatively little concern. Not until the period
of 1970 to the 1990s did political pressures make securing the border a pressing national issue.
In turn, this pressure popularized the concept of the illegal alien. Operation Gatekeeper itself was developed by the Clinton administration to
counter efforts by Gov. Pete Wilson to restrict Mexican migration into California as well as the Proposition 187 movement to deny education, health,
and social services to undocumented immigrants. While the operation did defuse anti-immigrant feelings, it made the crossing much more dangerous and
resulted in an increased loss of life. This work complements Peter Andreas's Border Games: Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide (LJ 8/00) and Pablo
Vila's Crossing Borders, Reinforcing Borders: Social Categories, Metaphors, and Narrative Identities on the U.S.-Mexican Frontier (Univ. of Texas,
2000). Nevins does a good job of presenting the case, but the result is a narrowly focused work that is most appropriate for academic libraries.
Stephen L. Hupp, West Virginia Univ., Parkersburg
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Navy Seals : A History of the
Early Years
Review on Amazon
From Booklist
The prolific Dockery makes another valuable contribution to the literature on the navy's special operations units, one that begins with the SEALs'
five different World War II ancestors, which survived misuse, kamikazes, and sharks to shrink practically to nonexistence after the armistice. The
Underwater Demolition Teams survived to play a useful role in the Korean War, whose special operations history is still emerging from a fog bank of
secrecy and apathy. Finally, President Kennedy took an interest in special warfare, the navy (under the aegis of Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh
Burke) chose to be a player, and the Teams (or, at least, One and Two) emerged in the face of every difficulty military professionals can face from
their own services, even before they went to Vietnam to shoot and be shot at.
Dockery blends oral history and conventional narrative with consummate skill, making the book exceptionally accessible to casual readers as well as
serious students. Again Dockery's efforts are likely only to enhance reader approval of the SEALs. Roland Green
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Guide to Military
Operations Other Than War: Tactics, Techniques and Procedures for Stability and Support Operations Domestic and International
Review on Amazon
The first book to cover on-the-ground functions, such as working with international and interagency task forces; methods of coordination; rules of
engagement; checkpoints; civilian population and movement control; evacuating noncombatants; distributing humanitarian aid; operating dislocated
civilian camps; providing medical care; conducting cordons and searches; disarming belligerents; confiscating hostile weapons and equipment;
conducting negotiations; exchanging prisoners; interacting with the media; and dozens of other military and civil support type operations.
A
Shield in Space? Technology, Politics, and the Strategic Defense Initiative
Review on Amazon
From Library Journal
Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara has called this book the best he has seen on the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). High praise, but
deserving, as the authors, both at the University of California at San Diego, critically review and evaluate SDI since its inception in 1983 under
Reagan to its diminishing support under the Bush administration. SDI is plagued by its dependence on technologies years away from realization. The
transition to a strategic defense from an offense would cause strategic instability for the superpowers and their allies. This work also clearly
documents that security cannot be achieved through technological development; such faith in technology is illusory. Highly recommended.
- D. Felbel, Univ. of Manitoba Libs., Winnipeg
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Product Description
In March 1983, Ronald Reagan made one of the most controversial announcements of his presidency when he called on the nation's scientists and
engineers to develop a defensive shield so impenetrable as to make nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete."
This book provides the first comprehensive review and evaluation of the project launched to implement that announcement --the project officially known
as the Strategic Defense Initiative and more popularly as "Star Wars." The authors--a political scientist and a physicist who has played a key role
in developing military technologies--provide an intriguing account of how political rather than technical judgment led to the initial decision, and
they explain the technical issues in terms accessible to non-specialists.
Judging SDI as "a classic example of misplaced faith in the promise of technological salvation," the authors examine the implications of the program
for strategy, arms control, the unity of the Western alliance, its prospective economic impact, and the way the American political process has dealt
with all these issues.
Te
rrorist Hunter: The Extraordinary Story of a Woman Who Went Undercover to Infiltrate the Radical Islamic Groups Operating in America
Review from Amazon
From Publishers Weekly
The author of this gripping account, whose identity, for obvious reasons, must remain secret, has some shocking revelations to make regarding
innocuous-sounding Islamic groups that she says serve as fronts for Hamas, Palestine Islamic Jihad and even al-Qaeda; about FBI ineptitude in
investigating these groups; and perhaps worst, about government suspicion of those, like herself, who are investigating this network. Some will
dismiss as paranoid her claim that there is a Saudi-funded movement to gain "Muslim world domination," yet readers will follow along in fearful
fascination as she slowly assembles the puzzle pieces of a complex, interlocking group of organizations and traces their links to terrorist groups
and, ultimately, to a "Saudi connection."
The author, a researcher at an unnamed research institute in New York City that focuses on the Middle East, has, through her work, become perhaps the
leading authority on how these front organizations operate in the U.S.-government agencies come to her for information. Readers will share her
nervousness as she attends a Muslim conference with a tape recorder attached to her eight-month-pregnant stomach under her burka or dives into a
garbage-filled Dumpster in search of documents.
Her personal story is equally dramatic: as a child, she and her Jewish family escaped imprisonment in Iraq after the regime executed her father as a
spy for Israel. With her evidence of how reputedly moderate Islamic leaders speak in support of jihad, she will undoubtedly be accused of feeding
anti-Muslim fears. Readers will have to absorb her tale and judge for themselves whether her evidence is credible; this should be headed for
bestseller lists. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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www.amazon.com...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217358316&sr=1-1The Secret History of al
Qaeda[/url]
Product Description
Drawing on unparalleled access to Osama bin Laden and his key associates, journalist Abdel Bari Atwan gives an incisive and timely account, the
clearest we have so far, of the rise of the notorious terrorist organization, al Qaeda. In this lively narrative, the author establishes what al Qaeda
is or has become, what it wants, what its capabilities are, and how the West can answer its complaints and challenges.
The only Western-based journalist to have spent time with Osama bin Laden, Atwan begins with an engrossing personal record of his 1996 trip to visit
al Qaeda's founder and guide at his Tora Bora hideout. He takes an in-depth look at bin-Laden, presenting a nuanced portrait of the man and a
description of his development as the prime exponent of jihad today.
Atwan reveals how al Qaeda's radical departure from the classical terrorist/guerilla blueprint has enabled less adaptable efforts to neutralize it.
The fanaticism of its fighters, and their willingness to kill and be killed, are matched by the leadership's opportunistic recruitment strategies and
sophisticated understanding of psychology, media and new technology--including the use of the Internet for training, support and communications.
Atwan's outspoken London-based newspaper al-Quds al-Arabi, of which he is Editor-in-Chief, has been the vehicle of choice for the release of many al
Qaeda electronic communiqués.
The Secret History of al Qaeda reveals events in Iraq and Saudi Arabia as watershed moments in the organization's evolution that are making it more
dangerous by the day. Atwan efficiently charts how the concept of jihad is being refined and appropriated, how a new kind of leader has been made
possible by al Qaeda's horizontal chain of command, the making of the suicide bomber as a permanent feature of a global holy war, al Qaeda's
economic strategy, and how the war in Iraq has transformed that country into a breeding ground for the most ruthless and militant al Qaeda fighters to
date.
Copub: Saqi Books
From the Inside Flap
"Deeply researched, well reported and full of interesting and surprising analyses. It demands to be read."--Peter Bergen, author of Holy War, Inc.
and The Osama Bin Laden I Know.
Of course, the kind of survival this can link to is more than mere life and death survival; it can get you a job within the system as well.
[edit on 29-7-2008 by SpartanKingLeonidas]
