Bottom line - there is no OPS versus OSPA. Doesn’t exist. Though apparently many people think it does.

OSPA leadership has received numerous phone calls and email concerning this topic:
Why are you trying to kill OPS?
What did OPS ever do to you?
Are you mad because you’re not on the OPS Board any more?
Why do you want to split the OPSEC community?
Is this personal?
Do you think you’re better than the OPS?

People we respect have questioned our integrity and motives. Some have called us on the carpet for this outrage and others are simply turning a blind eye to what OSPA has accomplished and what we intend to accomplish in the future.

On the plus side, we do enjoy the support of many OPSEC community leaders. By the way, I’m not going to attempt to answer all the questions posed above. No; rather I’ll tell you that I am an OPS member, an OPSEC Certified Professional (OCP), a former member of the OPS Board of Directors and am currently on the OPS Education Committee. And if you look at other OSPA Board members you will find current OPS members, one “Lifetime Member” and another OPS certified OCP. No one here discounts OPS’s contribution to the OPSEC community. In fact, they are a large part of why we have an “OPSEC Community” and all OSPA members are encouraged to join the OPS.

Earlier this year an Army E-5 saw a need. And from that need grew a web site and from that web site grew an Association. Pretty simple really. There were no hidden agenda’s, ulterior motivations, or anything sinister about it. Not then - and not today.

Revelator