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I found this book extremely helpful - it pulled together a lot of things I already knew how to do, and it's got me looking for how to apply spectral analysis to the sort of data I handle.

The table of contents would be more useful for any would-be reader than my opinions.

1. Information operations.

1.1. Information influence.

1.2. Information operation phases.

1.3. Information operations modeling.

1.4. Information operation recognition problem

1.5. Information operation counteraction problem

1.6. Document analysis

1. OSINT - open source intelligence.

2.1. OSINT as intelligence domain.

2.1.1. OSINT application spheres.

2.1.2. International experience.

2.2. Information space monitoring.

2.3. Information sources.

2.3.1. The web-space.

2.3.2. Deep web

2.3.3. Social media..

2.3.4. Databases of open sources.

2.4. OSINT technologies

2.5. Legal aspects.

1. Elements of non-linear dynamics for information

operations recognition

3.1. Time series

3.2. Correlation analysis

3.3. Fourier analysis

3.4. Wavelet analysis

3.5. Correlation with a pattern

3.6. Fractal analysis.

3.7. Multifractal analysis.

1. Analysis of network structures during information

operation recognition

4.1. Network parameters

4.2. Network-specific features of information

operations

1. Decision-making support during information

operation detection

5.1. Hierarchic decomposition and complex target

oriented dynamic evaluation of alternatives.

5.2. Peculiarities of working with experts

5.3. A methodology of DSS application during

information operation detection

5.4. A methodology of DSS knowledge base building

during detection of information operations

5.5. Considering Importance of Information Sources

during Aggregation of Alternative Rankings.

5.6. Developing of information operation

counteraction strategy.

5.7. A concept of an information and analytical

system for information operation detection.

I first read this book not long after it came out, but I revisited it here in 2023, because I had a consulting gig with a client who's on an island somewhere, trying to change the world. I felt that maybe the post collapse Croatian island at the beginning of the book might speak to him.

I don't think he actually read it, but I did, and my sense of what it means as climate change finally arrives in force is ...

The four Caryatids that survive to adulthood are archetypes, larger than life women everyone has encountered, if they're traveling in the realm that is aware of what's happening to our planet. I had not had those experiences when I first read it, but now I'm older ... wiser ... and profoundly weary.

I've dated Vera, I've dated Radmila, and I currently work with Sonja, who dispatched Biserka for me. I'm forbidden from dating anyone that doesn't pass her review, which I guess I needed.

It's an excellent read, although I'm not sure I believe the hope found in the afterword.

This is a book I bought just so I could offer an honest review on Amazon. There are a number of articles out there about James Scott and ICIT. Here's a snippet from Buzzfeed:

Earlier this year, leaders from the Marine Corps, the Department of Homeland Security, NASA, the NSA, the White House, and the FBI gathered at a Ritz-Carlton in Virginia to discuss the latest in cybersecurity and information warfare.

The event was organized by the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology, a nonprofit think tank founded just a few years ago that quickly established itself as a convener of well-attended cybersecurity events, a facilitator of Capitol Hill briefings, and the beneficiary of hundreds of thousands of dollars in sponsorships from top private sector security vendors.

The day’s closing session featured James Scott, ICIT’s senior fellow and cofounder, discussing Russian cyberinfluence operations and his new book about information warfare. What audience members from intelligence and law enforcement agencies didn’t know is that Scott and ICIT have been running their own deceptive information operation.