Thursday 19 April 2007

Open Source Intelligence

All the world's intelligence services subscribe to it. It is arguably the world's best intelligence. Its daily brief is read avidly by anyone who matters in governance the world over. Heads of state and government, foreign and defense ministers, intel agency chiefs and corporate CEOs, from Beijing to Brussels and from Washington to Wellington, subscribe to what has become the gold standard for objective global strategic analysis.

Oxford Analytica is the brand.

OA's latest contribution is "The Global Stress Points Matrix," a list of 20 potential points and where they rank from "negligible danger" of stress to "Very High" and "Extreme." Overlapping "High," "Very High," and "Extreme" stress points are: 1. United States/Iran: U.S. strike on Iran 2. United States: Deep Recession 3. China/Taiwan: Armed Hostilities

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