Intelligence agencies should accord more weight to open-source data, and the means to mine and interpret it
the valley of Death rode the six hundred, William Howard Russell’s account of the charge of the Light Brigade, a failed British attack on Russian cannons in the Crimean war in 1854, took about three weeks to appear in theand pushed Russian forces over the Dnieper, hours, if not minutes, elapsed before images were shared with the entire world on social media and messaging apps.
A vast amount of information about the war is surging out of Ukraine thanks to mobile-phone video, drone footage, satellite images and other forms of . Commercial satellites offer quick and public bomb-damage assessments of Ukrainian attacks on Russian air bases. The war is producing an order of magnitude more video footage than the civil war in Syria. The abundance ofis transforming how the world witnesses war. It has brought forth a new breed of citizen-analysts, who are often anonymous.
They can have a big impact. Take the explosion that killed two people just over the border in Poland on November 15th. The world held its breath. Many thought Russia had fired the missile, and feared thatwould be drawn directly into the fighting. Fortunately, open-source experts quickly spotted that the debris was from an errant air-defence interceptor fired by a UkrainianBut information can also mislead. As with all wars, truth is often a casualty.
The Ukraine war offers lessons about this new age of mutually assured surveillance. One is that the public needs to get to grips with the limits of. A profusion of data can create as much fog as a lack of it. Graphic images of destroyed Russian armour led many to conclude that the tank had become
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