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Using Palantir to Analyze Iranian Global Influence
Doug Philippone, Palantir
Note: All data contained in this video are unclassified and open-source.
Iran poses a unique challenge to our national defense, they are actively involved as an adversary to United States interests at the tactical, operational, strategic, and political levels. Iran is expanding its influence into Iraq, Afghanistan, Latin America, has aspirations to become a Nuclear power while sponsoring global terrorism through its surrogate, Hezbollah. In light of these issues, Palantir has worked closely with researchers and open source information to help understand Iran, its alliances and economic dependencies, military strengths and projects to help better understand this important player on the world stage.
Open source data sources used in this video:
- The New York Times
- Washington Post
- Oil and Gas Journal
- Globalsecurity.org
- Wikipedia
- Center For Strategic and Int’l Studies (CSIS)
- Institute For The Study of War (ISW)
- Institute for Science and Int’l Security (ISIS)
- Federation of American Scientists (FAS)
- World Nuclear Association (WNA)
- Energy Information Administration (EIA)
- The Jamestown Foundation
- Combating Terrorism Center at West Point
- Official Website of U.S. Forces – Iraq
- The Institute For National Strategic Studies (Tel Aviv, Israel)
- Iraq High Electoral Commission – ihec.iq
- PressTV Iran
- Mehr News
- Radio Free Europe
