by Mike Shelby
The complete framework for building a local intelligence product — from defining your operational environment to running collection operations and producing actionable assessments. Written for military, corporate security, and community leaders.
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From foundational concepts through collection operations to finished intelligence products — every chapter builds on the last.
Intelligence drives operations. Not gear, not wishful thinking, not the latest tactical fad — intelligence.
— from Chapter 25
The second edition is grounded in the same doctrinal backbone used by military intelligence professionals — restructured for anyone responsible for security and situational awareness in their community or organization.
Map the terrain, infrastructure, population, politics, and economics of your area using structured OE layers.
Identify threat actors, assess capability and intent, and apply structured analytic techniques to cut through bias and assumption.
Run OSINT, HUMINT, SIGINT, IMINT, and surveillance operations — legally, ethically, and systematically — using a formal collection plan.
Turn raw information into an Area Study, Intelligence Estimate, and contingency plans that drive real decisions.
Intelligence professionals who need a civilian-applicable framework grounded in the doctrine you already know.
Security directors and risk managers responsible for threat assessment, protective intelligence, and continuity planning.
Preparedness groups, neighborhood organizations, and civic leaders who want structured situational awareness for their community.
The first edition was 15 chapters and 230 pages. The second edition is 25 chapters, 7 parts, and nearly three times the content — with entirely new coverage of intelligence collection, threat assessment tools, and low intensity conflict.
Six new chapters covering OSINT, HUMINT, SIGINT, IMINT, surveillance & reconnaissance, and collection planning.
Analysis of Competing Hypotheses, Key Assumptions Check, indicators & warnings, cognitive bias mitigation, and link analysis.
Reframed for military, corporate security, and community leaders — without losing the practitioner edge.
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