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Matthew Moran, Professor of International Security, King's College London

Open-source intelligence: how digital sleuths are making their mark on the Ukraine war

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For months now, a large and very active community of digital sleuths has been closely tracking the escalating crisis in Ukraine. These people have been using open-source intelligence to investigate and document the build-up to – and now execution of – Vladimir Putin’s war of choice.

But what exactly is open-source intelligence? And how is it helping efforts to understand what’s happening on the ground in Ukraine?

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