SIPRI Military Expenditure: Intelligence Source Guide
SIPRI's military expenditure series reconstructs what states actually spend on their armed forces, on a consistent definition, across most of...
Economic Intelligence
SIPRI Arms Transfers Database: Intelligence Source Guide
SIPRI records every international transfer of major conventional weapons since 1950, deal by deal, in a common unit of military...
ILO Forced Labour: Intelligence Source Guide
The ILO is where forced labour is legally defined, statistically estimated and country-by-country supervised. Its indicators, conventions and expert committee...
EITI (Extractive Transparency): Intelligence Source Guide
EITI is the standard under which producer states publish what extractive companies paid them and what they received, reconciled by...
UNHCR Population Statistics: Intelligence Source Guide
UNHCR's Refugee Statistics API serves the official global counts of refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced people, stateless persons and returnees, by...
Keyword / Narrative: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A keyword is a hypothesis about language. Track the wrong string and you will measure nothing at all, very confidently....
Shipment / Bill of Lading: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A bill of lading names the shipper, the consignee and the goods on the same page. It is the closest...
HS Commodity Code: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Six digits decide the tariff, the licence and the level of scrutiny. Getting them wrong is how controlled goods travel...
Satellite Imagery: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Overhead imagery does not tell you what happened. It tells you what changed between two dates, and the analyst supplies...
Facility / Site: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A facility is where corporate paper meets physical reality. Registries tell you who claims the site; the ground truth tells...
GPS Coordinates: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Six decimal places is a doorstep. Two is a district. Precision in a coordinate is a decision about harm, not...
Location / Coordinates: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A place name is not a point. It is a claim about where something happened, carrying a resolution, a source...
Sanction / Watchlist Entry: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A sanctions hit is not an answer. It is a name, a legal basis and a programme code telling you...
Company / Organization: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Companies are how money, liability and control get organised. Follow the entity and you find the people who preferred not...
Sanctions Intelligence (SANCINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
A sanctions hit is not a finding. It is the start of one, and the work is proving whether the...
Financial Intelligence (FININT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Follow the money is a cliche because it works. Financial intelligence is the discipline of following value through the institutions...
Economic Intelligence (ECONINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Economic intelligence is how you see a disruption forming while it is still a shipping rate, an export licence and...
Cryptocurrency Intelligence (CRYPTINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Public blockchains keep a permanent, complete record of every transfer. The hard part was never the data. It is knowing...
Corporate Intelligence (CORPINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Every company is a legal fiction held together by filings. Corporate intelligence reads those filings to establish who is actually...
Accounting Intelligence (ACCTINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Financial statements are an argument, not a record. Accounting intelligence is the discipline of testing whether the argument actually holds....
Risk Analysis: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
The evacuation decision was made three days after the intelligence supported it. Nobody lacked information. What was missing was a...
Food & Agricultural Security: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
The famine is declared months after the data said it was coming. Vegetation anomaly, staple price, and the first export...
Water Security: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
You can watch a diplomatic crisis fill up. Reservoir altimetry showed the impoundment rate months before the downstream government said...
Energy Security: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Two things tell you a country is in trouble before its ministers do: how fast its gas storage is emptying,...
Climate Security: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Climate intelligence is not weather forecasting. It is the discipline of working out which rainfall deficit ends in a cabinet...
