EXCLUSIVE: Open-Source Intelligence Creator Explains Why His Job Keeps The World Honest

As open-source intelligence — commonly referred to as OSINT — has rapidly become a key feature of modern warfare, the Daily Caller News Foundation exclusively interviewed a prominent creator to learn why these researchers push the boundaries of publicly available information.

The creator, Aryan, known online as GEOIMINT, recently unveiled one of his creations, a map of Israel’s full air defense system, which is up to date as of Oct. 19, 2026. Aryan said that this is a passion of his that he pursues without political affiliation, and that he has done this for many other countries.

“It’s more of a passion because I’ve done this for other countries as well,” Aryan told the DCNF. “I published a Saudi Arabia file previously. I also have an Iran file … It’s really a passion I’ve been chasing these past, say, three to four years. So there’s no like political backing behind it or anything. It’s just passion.”

The map showcases the locations of Iron Dome launchers, David’s Sling missile interceptors and other military intelligence hardware linked to Israel’s air defense systems. Aryan said that because Israel is such a small and dense country, it allows it to have one of the best air defense networks in the world.

“We’ve seen from the start of the whole Gaza conflict that Israel’s interception rates are fairly high because, first of all, the country’s small,” Aryan told the DCNF. “That’s one thing to take into account, and the second thing to take into account is the amount of density for such a small country, defense-wise.”

The density of military technology concentrated near the Gaza border could be evidence that supports allegations that Israel intentionally allowed the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack to unfold. Some military experts, and even pro-Israel commentators such as the late Charlie Kirk, have said that it is likely Israel intentionally allowed the Oct. 7 attack to unfold as a casus belli for the Gaza War.

“I’ve been to Israel many times. The whole country is a fortress,” Kirk said on Patrick Bet-David’s podcast on Oct. 12, 2023. “When I first heard this story, I still have the same gut instinct that I did initially. I find this very hard to believe. I’ve been to that Gaza border. You cannot go 10 feet without running into a 19-year-old with an AR-15 or an automatic machine gun that’s an IDF soldier, right? The whole country is surveilled … I think some questions need to be asked. Was there a stand-down order?”

Kirk was not alone in his claim that Oct. 7 was allowed to happen intentionally.

“Within two weeks, it became pretty damn obvious to me that this was not an accident,” retired U.S. Army Col. Douglas Macgregor said during an Oct. 2, 2025, interview on Dave Smith’s Part of the Problem podcast. “This was deliberate. They let it happen.”