Information to Intelligence Cycle

Levels of analysis model

Advantages of Open Sources at the strategic level

• can help identify strengths, threats, risks, and opportunities for sustainability and long-term e. g. growth in the number of refugees in Europe.

• important in the cultural, demographic, and geographical components of assessing opportunities and alliances.

• essential to contextualize internal strategic information by comparison and benchmarking.

Advantages of Open Sources at the operational level

• important to define and subsequently contextualize operations at the human and geographical levels, such as distribution.

• very important in coordinating joint commercial or other international operations where classified information does not exist.

Advantages of Open Sources at the tactical level

• enabling current and imminent information is an important resource for addressing medium-term priorities and assessing the individual reliability of forces.

• can provide good information about the human context for medium-term operations.

Advantages of Open Sources at the technical level

• it’s an important resource for assessing the effectiveness of forces at the technical level.

• it allows to collect information about the systems, transport, communications and even financial context.