Open Source Intelligence or “OSINT” is supposedly a relatively new “discipline” in the toolkit of the modern Intelligence professional. One of the Infinia management team (PJM) first stumbled into the realm of OSINT or Online Research whilst at the Defence Intelligence Staff Offices in the Old War Office Building (OWOB) on Whitehall. In the late 1990s he was tasked with looking into the Chinese Programme to overhaul and update the PLA’s C4ISR (Command and Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) capabilities. The PLA Programme, back then was known as Qu Dian. As PJM was learning more about the programme he was struck by the remarkable similarities of Qu Dian to the allied Gulf War Capability, Joint Tactical Information Distribution System (JTIDS) or “Link 16”, in use during Desert Storm. Using an A4 Online Research Request he asked the “Internet Office” on the ground floor of the OWOB to research all available on-line information pertaining to JTIDS/Link 16. A week later PJM had tomes of academic printouts and, armed with a pack of Stabilo highlighter pens, started reading and highlighting relevant entities, objects, people and dates, it was a gargantuan task – today this would be called Entity Extraction. By March 2000 he had the basis of a presentation that illustrated how the PLA and the Chinese Defence Industry had effectively “reverse engineered” JTIDS – and that much of the material had been derived from “Open Sources.” China’s Desert Storm Education | Proceedings – March 2021 Vol. 147/3/1,417 (usni.org). Three years later PJM set up Olton Limited and by 2006 we were developing software to support analysts and researchers to undertake Open Source Intelligence on behalf of global corporate clients.