Cecil Watson served for three four-year terms on the North Dakota Wheat Commission board, the maximum allowed by the organization, and was chair of U.S. Wheat Associates.
From a huge Russian military convoy snaking its way to Kyiv to missile strikes and refugee crossings, commercial satellite imagery of the Ukraine conflict is helping lift the fog of war, illuminating for the public what was previously the domain of spy agencies.
Technologies that can pierce cloud cover and work at night are also coming to the fore, as a growing army of open-source intelligence analysts offer near real-time assessments of battleground developments.
“Governments are no longer the only place to go for high-precision satellite data,” said Craig Nazareth, a former US intelligence officer turned assistant professor at the University of
After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the US, EU and their allies have been announcing measures designed to isolate and weaken the Russian economy. Since 2014, Vladimir Putin has been taking pre-emp…