S04 E04: Operationalizing Publicly Available Information
Special-operations veteran Doug Livermore explains how publicly
available information and commercial OSINT tools have become
mission-critical—blurring the traditional line between intelligence
and operations. From targeting terrorists to evacuating Afghan
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Former Green Beret and national-security advocate Doug Livermore
joins the ShadowDragon team to unpack how publicly available
information (PAI) and commercial open-source intelligence (OSINT)
are transforming modern conflict—and why agile private-sector
partners now shape outcomes as much as governments do. Key points
& take-aways Breaking the “intel vs. ops” firewall * U.S.
commanders once distrusted anything that didn’t come from
classified HUMINT or SIGINT; today, PAI often drives the
find-fix-finish cycle faster than traditional sources. Field
lessons from five theaters * Iraq, Afghanistan, Mali, the DRC, and
the Central African Republic showed that PAI is frequently the only
data commanders can legally share with immature or non-NATO partner
forces. * Cheap commercial tools—Google Maps, social media
scraping, Internet-of-Things exhaust—now reveal patterns of life,
financial flows, and physical locations in minutes. Cultural
turning points * The Arab Spring (2010) and ISIS propaganda boom
(2014-15) proved that open networks can topple regimes and expose
targets. * Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas
war brought OSINT to prime time, with private analysts mapping tank
battalions and documenting war crimes in real time. Afghanistan
2021: Private networks move faster than states * Livermore’s
nonprofits No One Left Behind and SOAA used PAI, commercial
satellites, and encrypted chat to steer evacuees past Taliban
checkpoints when official channels bogged down. * U.S. intelligence
officers quietly pulled data from these civilian ops centers—a
preview of future public-private crisis response. Information
warfare & influence ops * Open digital terrain lets both
democracies and adversaries micro-target audiences, erode civil
trust, or rally global support; mastering sentiment analysis is now
a core skill for operators. Policy & the road ahead * Expect
formalized private-public frameworks that let nonprofits and tech
firms plug straight into combatant-command fusion cells. *
Civil-liberties safeguards must keep pace, distinguishing U.S.
person data from foreign-adversary exploitation. Special Guest:
Doug Livermore.
joins the ShadowDragon team to unpack how publicly available
information (PAI) and commercial open-source intelligence (OSINT)
are transforming modern conflict—and why agile private-sector
partners now shape outcomes as much as governments do. Key points
& take-aways Breaking the “intel vs. ops” firewall * U.S.
commanders once distrusted anything that didn’t come from
classified HUMINT or SIGINT; today, PAI often drives the
find-fix-finish cycle faster than traditional sources. Field
lessons from five theaters * Iraq, Afghanistan, Mali, the DRC, and
the Central African Republic showed that PAI is frequently the only
data commanders can legally share with immature or non-NATO partner
forces. * Cheap commercial tools—Google Maps, social media
scraping, Internet-of-Things exhaust—now reveal patterns of life,
financial flows, and physical locations in minutes. Cultural
turning points * The Arab Spring (2010) and ISIS propaganda boom
(2014-15) proved that open networks can topple regimes and expose
targets. * Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas
war brought OSINT to prime time, with private analysts mapping tank
battalions and documenting war crimes in real time. Afghanistan
2021: Private networks move faster than states * Livermore’s
nonprofits No One Left Behind and SOAA used PAI, commercial
satellites, and encrypted chat to steer evacuees past Taliban
checkpoints when official channels bogged down. * U.S. intelligence
officers quietly pulled data from these civilian ops centers—a
preview of future public-private crisis response. Information
warfare & influence ops * Open digital terrain lets both
democracies and adversaries micro-target audiences, erode civil
trust, or rally global support; mastering sentiment analysis is now
a core skill for operators. Policy & the road ahead * Expect
formalized private-public frameworks that let nonprofits and tech
firms plug straight into combatant-command fusion cells. *
Civil-liberties safeguards must keep pace, distinguishing U.S.
person data from foreign-adversary exploitation. Special Guest:
Doug Livermore.
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