Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Friday's Miscellany 09-26-2025

 38 North

 Belfer Center For Science and International Affairs

 Brookings

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

 Center for Cybersecurity Policy and Law

 Center for Immigration Studies (CIS)

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology  (CSET)

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

 Center for Space Policy and Strategy (CSPS)

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

 Center for the Study of Intelligence

  • Studies in Intelligence,  v. 69, no. 3, September 2025 
    • Banker, Philanthropist, Soldier, Spy: David Rockefeller’s Experience in Army Intelligence, 1942–54
    • Applying Epistemology to Analysis: Making the Case for Abductive Reasoning

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

 Central Asia-Caucasus Institute

 Chatham House

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

 Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

 Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

  • CTC Sentinel, September 2025, v. 18, no. 9 
    • The Global State of al-Qa`ida 24 Years After 9/11
    • Feature Commentary: Confronting Cartels: Military Considerations South of the Border
    • Uzbek Foreign Fighter Groups in the Syrian Jihad: The Evolution of KIB and KTJ from 2011 through 2025
    • Militant Violence in Jammu and Kashmir Post-Abrogation of Article 370

 Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee - Minority Report

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

 Defense Acquisition University (DAU)

  • Defense Acquisition, v. 54, no. 5, September-October 2025 
    • Interview With Patrick N. Kelleher, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Materiel Readiness
    • A Practical Framework for Transitioning Technology to the Warfighter
    • Achieve On-time Contract Awards with the Procurement Management Tool
    • Contract Terminations—What You Need to Know
    • Acquisition, the Foreign Military Partner, and Strategic Thinking
    • Military Services’ Ceiling Raised on Architect-Engineer Fees
    • Acquisition 2.0—Time for a New Paradigm

 Department of Defense/War (DOD)

 Department of Defense, Inspector General (DODIG)

  • DODIG-2025-172 Management Advisory: Evaluation of the DoD’s Development and Implementation of Quantum Technologies 
  • DODIG-2025-167 Audit of U.S. Air Force Government-Owned, GovernmentOperated Aviation Bulk Fuel Facilities Within South Korea 
  • DODIG-2025-166 Audit of Storage and Maintenance of Marine Corps Prepositioned Equipment and Supplies on the U.S. Naval Ship Dahl in the Indo-Pacific Region 

 Department of Homeland Security Inspector General

  • OIG-25-49 Review of DHS Preparation for the End of Title 42 Public Health Order Prohibiting Entry of Certain People to the United States 
  • OIG-25-48 CBP May Be Missing Opportunities to Interdict Illicit Drugs and Contraband in the Cruise Environment (REDACTED) 
  • OIG-25-47 Results of an Unannounced Inspection of ICE's Eloy Federal Contract Facility in Eloy, Arizona 
  • OIG-25-46 CISA Has Not Finalized Plans for Automated Cyber Threat Information Sharing Beyond Cybersecurity Act of 2015 Expiration 
  • OIG-25-45 FEMA Adequately Managed Port Security Grants, but Program Effectiveness Remains Unevaluated 
  • OIG-25-44 Results of August 2024 Unannounced Inspections of CBP Holding Facilities in the San Diego Area 
  • OIG-25-43 Inadequate Cybersecurity Rendered DHS Headquarters High-Value System Vulnerable to Attack 
  • OIG-25-42 CBP's Deficient Mobile Device Management Places Information at Increased Risk - (REDACTED) 

 Department of State

 Department of State Inspector General

 Egmont: The Royal Institute for International Relations

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)              

 George Washington University Program on Extremism

 German Council on Foreign Relations (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik e. V.)

 German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

 Global Public Policy Institute (GPPI)

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

  • Bureau of Prisons: Strategic Approach Needed to Prevent and Address Employee Misconduct GAO-25-107339 
  • Disaster Recovery: Use of HUD Block Grant Funds to Meet Cost-Share Requirements GAO-25-107603 
  • Extreme Heat: Limited FEMA Assistance Highlights Need for Reevaluation of Agency’s Role GAO-25-107474  
  • Federal Research: Agency Funding and Outreach to Historically Black, Tribal, and Minority-Serving Colleges and Universities GAO-25-107576 
  • Federal Spending Transparency: Actions Needed to Help Ensure Procurement Data Quality GAO-25-107469
  • Forest Service: Next Steps Are Uncertain for Improving Communications for Wildland Firefighters and Tracking Their Locations GAO-25-107905 
  • Government Contracting: Leveraging Federal Buying Power Can Save Billions GAO-25-108638 
  • Government Performance Management: Implementing GAO's Recommendations Would Help OMB Address Crosscutting Challenges GAO-25-108008 
  • K-12 Education: Prevention and Response to Adult Sexual Misconduct in Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps Programs GAO-25-107670 
  • Military Personnel: More Guidance Could Help Address Service Member Gambling Problems GAO-25-107700 
  • National Nuclear Security Administration: Agency Should Improve Cost Growth Notification Process GAO-25-107767 
  • National Nuclear Security Administration: Information on Implementation of Contractor Commuting Authority GAO-25-108065 
  • Nuclear Power: Nuclear Regulatory Commission Relies on Information From its Reactor Oversight Process to Ensure Safety GAO-25-107807 
  • Nuclear Waste Cleanup: DOE Should Collect Information Specific to Soil and Legacy Landfills to Inform Overall Remediation Efforts GAO-25-107565 
  • Persistent Chemicals: DOE Should Complete Efforts to Review PFAS Use GAO-25-107809 
  • Sexual Harassment: Actions Needed to Ensure Consistent Agency Policies for Research Institutions GAO-25-107750 
  • Status of Open GAO Recommendations to the Director of National Intelligence GAO-25-108612 
  • Terrorism Risk Insurance Act: Considerations for Reauthorization GAO-25-108748 
  • Ukraine: State Should Build on USAID’s Oversight of Direct Budget Support GAO-25-107057 
  • Veterans Employment: VA Should Address Human Capital Needs and Other Issues in High-Tech Training GAO-25-106876 
  • Weapon System Sustainment: DOD Can Improve Planning and Management of Data Rights [Reissued with revisions on Sep. 29, 2025] GAO-25-107468 
  • Weapon System Sustainment: Various Challenges Affect Ground Vehicles' Availability for Missions GAO-25-108679  

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

 Henry L. Stimson Center

 Heritage Foundation

 Horizon Advisory

 Hudson Institute

 IJ Infinity Group

  • Military Strategy Magazine, v. 10, no. 2, Spring 2025 
    • Civil War Comes to the West, Part II: Strategic Realities
    • Strategy for a Complex Age: To Frame or Solve?
    • Political Obedience as a Military Strategic Asset: From Cyrus to the 2023 War in Gaza
    • A New Fight: Deception, Adaptation, and Regeneration
    • Distributed Maritime Operations, Logistics, Industry, and American Strategy in Asia
    • Multi-Dimensional Game-Theory Analysis of North Korean Nuclear Threat

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

 Institute for the Study of Warfare

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

 International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

 International Crisis Group

 Issue One

 Jamestown Foundation

  • China Brief, September 20, 2025, v. 25, no. 17 
    • ‘AI +’ Initiatives Multiply After Years of Experimentation
    • PRC Consolidates Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Dominance
    • Xi Jinping’s Visit to Lhasa Elevates Tibet in National Policymaking Agenda
    • Corruptible Connections: CCP Ties and Smart Device Dangers
    • Decoding Beijing’s ‘Colonization of the Mind’ Narrative
    • Dissipative Warfare: The PLA’s Potential New Strategy in the AI Era

 Jewish Institute for National Security of America

 Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) Press

 Macdonald-Laurier Institute

 National Academies Press 

 National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR)

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

 Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI)

  • China Maritime Report #50: Foggy With a Chance of Surprise Attack: PLA Amphibious Deception in a Taiwan Scenario 
  • CMSI Translations #23: The Elusive "Deep-Sea Beast": Analysis of the Performance of the Main Equipment of the U.S. Navy Virginia-Class Nuclear Attack Submarine 

 Naval War College Stockton Center for International Law

 Observer Research Foundation

 Our World in Data

 Oxford University Press (OUP)

 President of Ukraine

 RAND

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

 Special Inspector General for Operation Atlantic Resolve  (OAR)

 Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)

 Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS)

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

 Taylor & Francis

 Toda Peace Institute

 UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

 World Bank

Friday, September 26, 2025

Friday's Miscellany 09-19-2025

 38 North

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

 Air University Press

 Al Jazeera Center for Studies

 American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

 Amnesty International

 Arctic Institute       

 Army Cyber Institute (ACI)

  • Cyber Defense Review, 2025, v. 10, no.1  
    • The Battlefield is not ‘Over There’ – It is Here, 24/7
    • A Conversation with the U.S. Army Chief Information Officer: Mr. Leonel Garciga
    • The Sword of Damocles: A Cybersecurity Paradigm Shift for the Defense of Critical Infrastructure
    • Southeast Asia: Where Facebook is the Internet
    • Toward Clarity in Cyber’s “Fog of Law”
    • Lights Out: What Hurricanes Reveal about Cyberattacks and Blackouts
    • Fighting Through Disruption: Reframing Cyber Resilience for Power Projection and Strategic Credibility

 Army War College Press

  • For the Common Defense: 2025 Homeland Defense Symposium Compendium 
  • Parameters, Autumn 2025 no. 55, no. 3 
    • A Case for Military Proportionality: Disabling Nuclear Plants
    • The Consequences of Declining Patriotism in the United States
    • Coercive Deterrence: Adapting Deterrence for Strategic Competition with China
    • Russian Arctic Land Forces and Defense Trends Redefined by NATO and Ukraine
    • Disinformation as Ground-Shifting in Great-Power Competition
    • Bangladesh in Transition: Testing Democratization in South Asia and the Indo-Pacific
    • Who Is in Charge of Cyber Incidence Response in the Homeland?
    • War Fighting: The Case of Ulysses S. Grant

 Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)

 Atlantic Council

 Australian National University Press

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

 Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES)

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

 Brookings

 Bruegel

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

 Cato Institute

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

 Center for Global Security Research

 Center for International Policy

 Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC)

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

 Centre for Information Resilience (CIR)

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

 Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

 China Observers in Central and Eastern Europe (CHOICE)

 China Landpower Center

 Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) 

 Congress. House. China Select Committee on Competition with the Chinese Communist Party

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

 Department of Defense /War

 Department of Defense, Inspector General (DODIG)

  • DODIG-2025-163 Audit of the DoD’s Management of the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program Contract for the Coordinator for Afghan Relocation Efforts at Camp As Sayliyah 
  • DODIG-2025-162 Audit of the U.S. Air Force’s Processes for Providing Supplies and Equipment Funded Through the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative 
  • DODIG-2025-161 Audit of the DoD’s Policies and Procedures to Prevent the Procurement of Prohibited Seafood Products 
  • DODIG-2025-160 Audit of the DoD’s Management of Relocatable Facilities in the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command 
  • DODIG-2025-158  Audit of the Defense Logistics Agency’s Compliance with the Berry Amendment 

 Department of Homeland Security Inspector General

  • OIG-25-41 United States Coast Guard Must Improve Management of Merchant Mariner Credential Suspension and Revocation 
  • OIG-25-40 CBP Faces Limitations Detecting and Preventing Aliens' Use of Fraudulent Documents to Enter the United States 
  • OIG-25-39 

 Department of State

 Department of State Inspector General

  • AUD-SI-25-31 Audit of the Bureau of Diplomatic Security’s Antiterrorism Assistance Program 

 ENSURED Project

 European Council on Foreign Relations               

 European Network for Economic and Fiscal Policy Research (EconPol)

 European Parliament Think Tank

 European Policy Centre (EPC)

 European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

 French Institute of International Relations (Institut Français des Relations Internationales)

 German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

 German Marshall Fund of the United States

 Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

 Global Public Policy Institute (GPPI)

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

  • DOD Cyberspace Operations: About 500 Organizations Have Roles, with Some Potential Overlap GAO-25-107121 
  • DOD Financial Management: Insights into the Auditability of DOD’s Fiscal Year 2024 Balance Sheet GAO-25-108052 
  • DOD Financial Management: Role of Service Organization Reports in Assessing the Effectiveness of Internal Controls GAO-25-107731 
  • DOD Financial Management: Status of Remediation Efforts to Meet Audit Mandate GAO-25-107427 
  • Land Port Inspections: CBP Should Improve Performance Data and Deployment Plans for Scanning Systems GAO-25-107379 
  • Modernizing the Nuclear Security Enterprise: Opportunities Exist to Better Prepare for Delay in New Uranium Processing Facility GAO-25-107330 
  • Nuclear Enterprise: Clearer Guidance Could Improve Joint Professional Military Education Nuclear Deterrence Curriculum GAO-25-107416 
  • Personnel Vetting: Sustained Leadership Is Critical to DOD's New Approach to Its Background Investigation System GAO-25-108721 
  • Port Security: FEMA Should Improve Transparency of Grant Decisions GAO-25-107587 
  • U.S. African Development Foundation: Strategic Approach Needed to Mitigate Fraud Risks GAO-25-107574 
  • U.S. Arms Transfers: State Department Should Improve Investigations and Reporting of Foreign Partners’ End-Use Violations GAO-25-107622 

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

 Henry L. Stimson Center

 Hudson Institute

 Human Rights Watch

 Institute for National Security Studies (INSS)

 Institute for Science and International Security

 Institute for the Study of Warfare

 International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

  • Perspectives on Terrorism, 2025, v.19, no. 3 
    • Applying Networks of Crime-Involved Places (CS4) to Online Radicalisation
    • Beyond Antecedents: The Application of Reciprocal Determinism to Understanding Radicalisation Process(es)
    • Remembering the Past Within the Present: Military Video Releases of Palestinian Islamic Jihad
    • A Preliminary Examination of the Prevalence and Correlates of Mass Casualty Terrorist Attacks
    • The Crime-Terrorism Nexus and Jihadism in Sweden: Explaining Connections, Recruitment Strategies, and Risks
    • Introducing the Leadership for the Extreme and Dangerous for Innovative Results (LEADIR) Dataset
    • Bibliography: Hezbollah

 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

 International Peace Institute (IPI)

 International Working Group on Russian Sanctions

 Irregular Warfare Center (IWC)

  • PRISM, September 2025, v. 11, no. 1 
    • What the Red Dragon Fears: Assessing Resistance in China
    • Decentralized Democratic State- Building: Evidence from the United Nations Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
    • Decentralized Stabilization Assistance
    • Strategizing Lawfare as a Key Irregular War Modality
    • Slovenian Independence and the Resistance Operating Concept: A Comparative Analysis
    • The Iatrogenic Paradox: When Information Operations Undermine Strategic Objectives

 Lowy Institute for International Relations

 Marine Corps University Press

 Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

 National Academies Press

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

 Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI)

 Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC)

 Observer Research Foundation

 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

 Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)

 Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

 Pew Research Center

 Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

 RAND Corporation

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

 Small Arms Survey

 Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS)

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

 Swedish Defense Research Agency

 Takshashila Institution

 Taylor & Francis

 Telegeography

 Toda Peace Institute

 Transnational Institute (TNI)

 UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

 UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

 United States Studies Centre (USSC)

 Yale University School of Public Health