DÉFENSE ZONE
Born during the Second World War, open-source intelligence, better known as OSINT, has taken on new importance since the start of the war in Ukraine. Accessible to amateurs, this form of intelligence is very useful for countering the spread of fake news and exposing disinformation. It is also proving tactically and strategically decisive for obtaining military information.
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“As General Georgelin rightly said when I was working for him: ‘with open-source intelligence, you have 80% of the information that I, the Chief of the Defence Staff, can have’”, Michel Goya told members of the Defence Committee at a hearing. On many occasions, OSINT has made it possible to locate precisely...
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