# Information to Intelligence Cycle

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## 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.
