Open Source Intelligence (OS-INT) is defined as the act of extracting and analysing information from publicly accessible sources. Its purposes include, but are not limited to national security, military intrigue, business intelligence and academic research. With the rapid growth of the reach of the internet, OS-INT has reached new highs in levels of practitioners, as well as the breadth of the content illustrated by the data.

For this project, we are working with several different sources of data, and OS-INT practitioners, such as the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), who provide data which encapsulates military expenditure, armed conflict and the arms trade.

It is without doubt that the collective reliance and funding of the military industrial complex has shown massive benefits and disadvantages for individuals across the world, with corporations raking in giant profits, and conflict decimating communities worldwide. With this project, we hope to clearly visualise the direct correlation between the transfer of arms and equipment to the levels of conflict across the globe.

Getting our project running:

• To be able to run our project, first clone it.
• Run npm install in the root directory
• Replace the webpack.config.js in node_modules\react-scripts\config with the one in the project root
• Extract the .tiff file in \public\NE1_LR_LC.zip to \public

Once installed

In the project directory, you can run:

npm start

Runs the app in the development mode.\ Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in your browser.

The page will reload when you make changes.\ You may also see any lint errors in the console.