Study on application of open source intelligence from social media in the military

Abstract

With the gradual popularization of information technology and network technology, various types of open source information, especially social media information, have shown an explosive growth trend. Social media intelligence not only possesses ideological and value-level values, but also directly serves military defense. It will help stimulate open source intelligence to play a huge role in combat operations that combining communications and psychological knowledge to explore and exploit frontier technologies in artificial intelligence, such as machine learning and data mining, and conducting research on social media big data collection, analysis, mining, and prediction technologies. This paper focuses on the preliminary analysis of the application of open source information such as social media in the field of military intelligence.