Friday's Miscellany 09-04-2026

 38 North

• Changes in the KPA High Command 
• North Korea’s Recent Economic Recovery and the Sustainability of the Regional Development Policy 
• Successes and Challenges of North Korea’s Five-Year Plan for Economic Development: Assessment and Outlook 

 Air University Press

• Adapting to the Spectrum: Operating in the EMS Domain in the European Theater 

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

• Closing the Distance: Australia’s Northern Theatre Logistics Distribution Gap 
• Warning Signals: Venezuela and the Risk of Chinese AI-Enabled Digital Authoritarianism 

 Brookings

• Beyond Arrests: How ICE Enforcement Depressed Local Employment in 2025 
• Blowback: How the Iran War May Change the World 
• Middle Power AI Agency: Preserving Choice Between the United States and China 
• Tracking Trade Amid Uncertain and Changing Tariff Policies 
• Turning the Tide: China Seeks to Set the Rules at Sea 
• An Update on the Efficacy of Sanctions Against Russia 

 Bruegel  

• European Clean Tech Atlas
• Programmable Sovereignty: Coordinated Specialisation as a Response to the N-2 Problem in Artificial Intelligence 
• What is Driving the Global Rise in Long-Term Interest Rates? 

 Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

• Canada and Strategic Competition in the Electromagnetic Environment 
• Canada’s Nuclear Export Moment 
• MINERVA Initiative and Drone Integration in Canadian Army Land Operations 

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Europe’s Overseas Countries and Territories as Geopolitical Assets 
• How the U.S. Export-Import Bank Can Finally Join the Fight Against Climate Change    
• In Russia’s Long Drone Shadow 
• Operationalizing AI Sovereignty Through Agency, Interoperability, and Openness 

 Cato Institute

• Immigration and Macroeconomic Outcomes in OECD Countries 

 CCP BioThreats Initiative

• China’s Pursuit of Weather Modification Weapons 

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

• Strengthening the U.S. Semiconductor Manufacturing Workforce 

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• From Shahed to Geran: How Russia Continues to Reinvent the One-Way Attack Drone 
• How Central Banks Can Win the Digital Currency Race 
• The Insurance Industry’s Retreat from AI Threatens to Slow Innovation and Adoption 
• Redesigning UK Defense Procurement for the AI Era 
• U.S. and Allied Burden Sharing: A Progress Report 

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

• Governing Digital Assets and Crypto-Enabled Financial Crime 
• Science Diplomacy and Africa’s Quantum Horizon: Beyond Economic Development 

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

• The Pursuit of Optimization in the People’s Liberation Army Operational Planning Research: Patterns and Implications 

 Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

• Curbing the Proliferation of Commercial Spyware Starts at the Demand-Side 

 Congress. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

• House Intel Committee Releases Bipartisan 9/11 Commission Review Report Ahead of 25th Anniversary 
• Review of the 9/11 Commission Report 
• Original 9/11 Commission Report 

 Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

• Twenty-Five Years After 9/11, the United States Is Unprepared for Terrorism’s Next Wave 
• U.S.-Canada Relations - Timeline 
• The War on Terrorism: Global Experts Reflect on Lessons Learned Twenty-Five Years After 9/11 

 Council on Geostrategy

• Strategic Sealift: Resilience in an Era of Contested Logistics 
• Towards a ‘Hercules Hold’: Maintaining a Transatlantic Defence Industrial Base 

 Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

• Commercial Facilities Sector Profile 
• Critical Manufacturing Sector Profile

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

• Afghanistan: The Collapse of the Roadblock State 
• Making Markets, Contesting States: The Era of Checkpoint Governance in South Sudan 
• Reimagining Europe's Global Strategic Imperative 

 Deloitte Center for Government Insights

• 2026 NASCIO-Deloitte Cybersecurity Study 

 Department of Defense/War (DOD/DOW)

• Interagency Agreement Between U.S. Department of War, Office of the Assistant Secretary of War for Nuclear Deterrence, Chemical, and Biological Defense Policy and Programs and the National Institutes of Health, National Institute for Allergic and Infectious Diseases 

 Department of Defense/War, Inspector General (DODIG/DODIW)

• DoWIG-2026-116 Whistleblower Reprisal Investigations, Falcon Dunes Golf Course 56th Force Support Squadron Luke Air Force Base, Arizona 

 Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General

• OIG-26-25 FEMA Wasted Millions of Dollars in Public Assistance Small Project Grants 

 Department of Justice Weaponization Working Group

• The Richmond Domain Perspective Report 
• Press Release 

 Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab)

• How Russian Content Sought to Influence Armenia’s Electoral Information Space 

 Egmont: The Royal Institute for International Relations

• Beyond Lessons Learned: How Russia Institutionalises Battlefield Experience 
• A Periphery Without a Core: The Mecca Agreement and Europe’s Absence from the Middle East 

 ENSURED Project

• Building Narratives: A Guide for Strategic Communications in Global Governance 

 Euro-Atlantic Resilience Centre

• Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: Russia’s Hybrid Campaign Against Europe, 2026–2030 

 European Council on Foreign Relations                 

• Booted, Then Suited: Veterans and the Making of Putin’s New Proto-Elite 

 European Policy Centre (EPC)

• Making Prevention Work: An Effective Agenda for European Resilience 

 European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

• Africa's Digital Edge: Building EU-Africa Digital Cooperation 

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

• Risks of Gaming and Gambling 

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

• From Corsairs to Private Military Contractors: Nonmilitary Maritime Actors and the Historical Continuities of Naval Warfare 

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Broadband Deployment: Agencies Should Take Steps to Better Target Underserved Areas and Consider Sustainability GAO-26-107725 
• Defense Management: DOD Needs to Review Its Defense Agencies and Field Activities for Efficiency and Effectiveness GAO-26-107781 
• DHS Contracts: Reported Potential Cost Avoidance from Terminations Will Not Fully Materialize GAO-26-109096 
• Disaster Contracting: FEMA and the Corps of Engineers Have Opportunities to Improve Local Vendor Use GAO-26-108426 
• Federal Rulemaking: Agencies Continue to Use Good Cause and Other Mechanisms to Forgo Public Comments GAO-26-108208 
• Flight Simulators: FAA Should Take Steps to Ensure Oversight Efforts Address Increased Workload GAO-26-107726 
• High School Aviation Maintenance Programs: FAA Should Assess Expanding Access to the Mechanic Knowledge Test GAO-26-108303 
• Secret Service: Protection Policies Should be Consistently Updated to Better Ensure Protectee Safety GAO-26-108455 
• Telecommunications: GSA Should Assess Agencies’ Effectiveness at Preventing Service Disruptions GAO-26-107919 
• VA Electronic Health Record Modernization: Actions Needed to Sustain Accelerated System Deployments GAO-26-109393 

 Hudson Institute

• Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Radev: A Complicated NATO Ally 

 Institute for Science and International Security

• IAEA Report Presents Major New Developments on Syria’s Past, Secret Nuclear Program – But Lacks Information on Weapons Connection 

 Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP)

• China’s Maritime and Military Strategy in the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean 

 Institute for Security & Technology (IST)

• AI and the Future of National Security: Findings from a Survey of 100+ National Security Practitioners on the Opportunities and Risks of Advanced AI Deployment in Military, Cybersecurity, Intelligence, and CBRN 

 Institute for the Study of War

• Africa File
• September 3, 2026 Niger Thwarts Coup; The Sudanese Civil War Threatens to Regionalize; New Government Offensives in Eastern DRC 
• China & Taiwan Update
• September 1, 2026 
• September 4, 2026 
• Hezbollah’s FPV Drones Pose an Acute Challenge to Israel 
• Iran Update
• August 31, 2026 
• September 1, 2026 
• September 2, 2026 
• September 3, 2026 
• September 4, 2026 
• Korean Peninsula Update
• September 2, 2026  
• The Militant Republic of Iran 
• The PRC Normalizes “Law Enforcement” East of Taiwan 
• Russian Occupation Update
• September 3, 2026 
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment
• August 31, 2026 
• September 1, 2026 
• September 2, 2026 
• September 3, 2026 
• September 4, 2026 
• September 5, 2026 
• September 6, 2026 

 International Centre for Counter Terrorism

• A House Divided: The Ninth Review of the Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy and the Future of UN Counter-Terrorism 
• A Story of Aspiration: Western Mobilisation to African Jihadist Groups, 2019–2026 

 International Crisis Group

• Hollow Promises: Resetting Gaza’s Ceasefire 

 Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI)

• The U.S.–Canada Tariff War: When the Elites Fight, We All Pay 

 McCrary Institute

• From Fragmentation to Coordination: Operationalizing U.S. Cyber Incident Reporting 

 Observer Research Foundation

• Double Helix of Danger: Securing Synthetic DNA in India 

 Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES)

• A Framework on Implementing a Compliance Solution under the EU Methane Emissions Regulation 
• From Regulator to Investor: The Expanding Role of the U.S. Government in Nuclear Energy Innovation 
• Italy’s ‘Liquidity Service’ Risks Gas Market Distortion 

 Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

• Political Meddling at the Census Bureau Damages the Entire US Statistical System 

 Pew Research Center

• 25 Years After 9/11, a Portrait of Muslim Americans 
• Latinos Are Split on Whether the American Dream Is Achievable 

 RAND Corporation

• Buying Time Against AI Proliferation: The Economics of Governed Access 
• Countering Model Distillation: Limits and Alternatives 
• A Standardized Framework for Assessing High-Risk Life Sciences Research: Defining Objective Criteria That Can Facilitate Expert and AI Reviews of Dangerous Gain-of-Function Research 

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

• State Threats in Sub-Saharan Africa Through a Gender Lens 

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

• Beyond the Blue Line: Tackling Climate, Peace, and Security Challenges in Abyei 
• EU Policy Engagement on Advanced Conventional Weapons and Sanctions Compliance in the South Caucasus 

 Taylor & Francis

• Ethnic and Racial Studies
• Collective Representation Work as Stigma Management. Young Muslims from Furuset, Oslo [open access article] 
• Coping with Islamophobia: How Muslim Staff Strategize and Respond to Their Working Experiences in the Academy  [open access article] 
• The Muslim Vote or “Trap of the Surface”? Placing Muslim Political Participation on the Changing Landscape of Electoral Politics in the UK [open access article] 
• Respectability, Resistance or Refuge? How Muslim Elites in Norway Respond to Domination [open access article] 
• The Rise and Retreat of Covert Action: Institutional Design, Political Control, and the Limits of Secrecy, 1947–1962 [open access article] 
• Seeing like a Muslim [open access article] 
• Intelligence and National Security
• Disrupting Arab Arms: Israeli’s Secret Front in Italy, 1948–1949 [open access article] 
• Five years of Canada’s National Security and Intelligence Review Agency: Early Successes, Growing Pains and Unforced Errors [open access article] 
• From Shadows to Screens: Digital Outreach Strategies in Intelligence and Law Enforcement [open access article] 
• The Rise and Retreat of Covert Action: Institutional Design, Political Control, and the Limits of Secrecy, 1947–1962 [open access article] 
• Targeted Listening: German Broadcast Monitoring and Goebbels’ Propaganda Ministry in the Second World War [open access article] 
• Unveiling State Secrets to Occupying Forces: Interwar Intelligence Activities in the Baltic Sea Region Through the Lens of the NKVD/NKGB interrogations, 1940–1942 [open access article] 
• Venona and Alger Hiss: A Follow-Up [open access article]
• Journal of Risk Research
• The Non-Science of Risk Science: Exploring the Power and Ethical Dimensions of Risk Study Quality [open access article] 
• Risk Communication and Policymaking: Examining Participation Context, Digital Media, and Scientific Evidence [open access article] 
• Trust Under Threat: How AI vs. Human Mistakes in Disaster Alerts Shape Public Perception and Response  [open access article] 
• Terrorism and Political Violence
• Cognitive and Behavioral Radicalization: An Explanatory Split? [open access article] 
• The Dynamics of Protest Radicalization [open access article] 
• Martyrdom as a Mask: Unveiling Symbolic Violence in Iraqi Kurdistan’s Civil War Aftermath [open access article] 
• Perspectives on Violent Extremism: Insights from Swedish Population Registers in a Global Comparison [open access article] 

 UK Parliament House of Commons Library

• The Conflict in Sudan 
• Defence and Civil Preparedness: A Reading List 
• Deploying the Armed Forces in the UK 

 United States Studies Centre (USSC)

• Sovereignty Through Managed Dependence: Australia’s Strategy for Frontier AI Access 

 White House

• Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Announces Historic Oil Agreement to Secure American Energy Dominance and Drive Venezuela’s Economic Recovery 

Friday 08-28-2026

38 North

• Beyond Pyongyang: Educational Resource Divide 
• Beyond Pyongyang: Mobile Networks, the Internet, and Broadcasting 
• Beyond Pyongyang: North Korea’s Industrial Landscape 
• Beyond Pyongyang: Transportation Networks 
• North Korea Makes Significant Progress on New Trade Facility with China 

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

• African Contributions to Global Security   
• China’s Expanding Military Reach in Africa: From Exercises to Expeditionary Power 

 Americans for Responsible Innovation (ARI)

• The Invisible Backbone: How to Secure AI Infrastructure Today for Tomorrow 

 Army T2COM G2

• Command and Sustainment in the PLA Army Service Support Brigade 

 Army War College Press

• Parameters, Autumn 2026, v. 56, no. 3 
• From Reliability to Fit: Trust, Adaptation, and Distributed Cognition in AI-Enabled Mission Command
• Can AI Pass the US Army War College?
• Constraint Breeds Lethality: Three Models of Military AI Adoption
• Russia’s Attritional Theory of Victory in Ukraine
• Innovation and Adaptation: Lessons from the Russia-Ukraine War, 2024
• Maximize Your Returns: The Critical Need for Red-Team Capabilities at All Echelons of Command
• Transforming the US Army Reserve for Protracted War
• Intellectual Interoperability: Lessons from Afghanistan for Security Cooperation
• Getting There First: Strategic Competition Requires a Proactive Mindset

 Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)

• From Growth to Visibility: Bureaucratic Incentives After China's Cadre Evaluation Reforms 

 Atlantic Council

• AI and Autonomy in Contested Operations 
• Atoms for Appalachia: Building State Capacity for Nuclear-Enabled Economic Development 
• A Colombia-Venezuela Agenda for Recovery, Security, and Economic Growth 
• Could a Stablecoin Jumpstart Postwar Reconstruction? 
• Currency Policy Options for the Palestinian Economy 
• An Economic Shock Is Coming. Boosting women’s Economic Opportunity May be the Key to Overcoming It 
• Opening Africa’s Skies to Trade, Growth, and Jobs 
• Sovereignty Without Borders: Decoding the Transatlantic Digital Relationship at a Time of Change 

 Australian Army Research Centre

• Australian Army Journal, 2026, v. 22 no. 2 
• Do AI-Enabled Decision-Support Systems Improve Ethical Choices on the Battlefield?
• Military Virtue in Practice
• Tactically Adaptable Robotic Autonomous Systems and Artificial Intelligence (RASAI) as a Capability
• Quantum RAS Planning
• Mission Command in a Multi-Domain Littoral Environment
• Civil–Military Relations in Democracy
• Plans, Pedagogy, and Paper Wars
• The Theory of Asymmetry
• Optomechanical Sensors Using Squeezed States
• How Well Suited Is the British Army for Large-Scale Combat Operations and How Can It Best Prepare for These in the Future?
• What Is the Difference Between Confidence and Arrogance, and How Can the Latter Be Mitigated Within Military Decision-Making?
• Does the Operational Level Exist?

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

• ANZUS at 75: Strengthening Deterrence Through Defence Guidelines 
• Intervention Opportunity Framework: Preserving Strategic Choice in an Era of Accelerating Competition 

 Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES) 

• From Dependence to Strategic Autonomy: IRIS² and the Future of EU Satellite Communications 

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

• Global Protections for Afghans Five Years After the Taliban’s Return 

 Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA)

• Balochistan Has Become a Nightmare for Pakistan and Iran 
• Iranian Cyber Sabotage Is Targeting US Water Systems 
• The Modern Blitz: The Collapse of Strategic Warning as a Response to Tactical Alert 

 Brookings Institution

• Envisioning the Legal Fight over NATO Withdrawal 
• Tracking Federal Expenditures in Real Time 

 Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

• Strengthening Canada–Japan–South Korea Cooperation on Integrated Air and Missile Defence 

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Ahead of the Deal: How the United States Can Build an Energy Project Pipeline in Emerging Markets 

 Cato Institute

• The Other Liberation Day: The Liberation of the Rest of the World from Trade with the United States 

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

• Superpowers and AGI: How U.S.-China Competition Could Be Shaped by the Emergence of Artificial General Intelligence  

 Center for Cybercrime Investigations & Cybersecurity

• International Journal of Cybersecurity Intelligence and Cybercrime, 2026, v. 9, no. 2 
• Analyzing Modern Scam Typologies: From Pig-Butchering and Nigerian Advance-Fee Fraud to Crypto Airdrop Schemes
• Three-Tier On-Chain Transaction Architecture in a Sanctions-Linked Pig-Butchering Network: A Blockchain-Forensics Case Study
• Attribution Post ‘Aura’ Loss: A Qualitative Discourse Analysis of the Nigerian Scam Label and Fraud Attribution
• From Authorization to Loss: A Blockchain Forensic Analysis of Transaction-Level Mechanisms in Cryptocurrency Airdrop Scams
• Technique-Level Normalization for Cybersecurity Intelligence: An Empirical Evaluation of ATT&CK Attribution from HIDS Alerts Using Fine-Tuned Transformers and Metadata Re-Ranking

 Center for Gun Violence Solutions

• National Gun Violence Data 
• State Gun Violence Data 

 Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM)

• War with No Rally-Round-the-Flag: A Review of US Polling on the Iran War, March-April 2026 

 Center for International Policy (CIP)

• ‘Cold Peace’ Is the Realistic Goal in Korea. An Unprepared Summit Won’t Get There 

 Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

• NATO’s Ankara Summit: The Indo-Pacific Dimensions 

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• Lessons from Covid-19 for Global Health Security: Innovation, Access, and the Systems Between 
• A New Organizational Paradigm for Economic Statecraft at the U.S. State Department 
• Taiwan and the Pacific: Perspectives from Australia, Taiwan, and the United States on Cross-Strait Challenges and Regional Partnership 
• The Uncertain Future of Thailand’s Gas Sector 

 Center on Law, Ethics and National Security

• Special Protection, Strategic Use: Cultural Property in the Law of Armed Conflict 

 Center for the Study of Intelligence

• Studies in Intelligence, June 2026, v. 70, no. 2 
• We Have Been Here Before: Joseph Becker’s Computer and the AI Question
• The Quiet Cognitive Coup of Generative AI: Rewriting the Rules
• Three Pillars of Identity Intelligence: A Brief History
• The Enigma of Ernst Rudolf Fischer: Nazi Germany’s Oil Expert

 Centre for Information Resilience (CIR)

• Escalating violence in Jonglai State, South Sudan 
• Shwe Kokko Scam Compound: A Crackdown Under Scrutiny 

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

• Distributed Ledger Technology and the Future of Payments in Canada 
• Middle-Income Economies: Navigating Digital Dependencies in AI 

 Chatham House

• What Haitians Want from the Next Phase of UN and International Support 
• What the Burnham Government Should Do in Its Foreign Policy 

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

• Global Footprint of China’s Defense Labs: Contacts and Collaborations with Foreign Institutions  
• The PLA’s Updated Space Operations Textbook: What You Need to Know 

 Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

• CTC Sentinel, August 2026, v. 19, no. 8 
• Managing the Muhajirin: The Future of Syria’s Foreign Fighters
• A View from the CT Foxhole: Gary Greco, Former Office Chief, Joint Intelligence Task Force Counterterrorism, Defense Intelligence Agency
• The Case for Exit Comms: Raising Disengagement Rates from Violent Extremism

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• Effects of Automatic Stabilizers on the Federal Budget: 2026 to 2036 
• Expired and Expiring Authorizations of Appropriations: 2026 Final Report 
• Overview of Electric Transmission 

 Council on Foreign Relations

• Crude Calculations: Why the Iran War Hasn’t Yet Caused an Oil Shock 
• Out of Ammo: A Two-Year Sprint to Rebuild the American Arsenal and Deter China 

 Council on Geostrategy

• Strategic Sealift: Resilience in an Era of Contested Logistics 

 Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

• CISA Vulnerability Review 
• Communicating Under Pressure: Best Practices for Service Providers 

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

• Armed Group Taxation and Trade 
• When Unarmed Women Hold the Frontline: Implications for Policy 

 Defense AI Observatory (DAIO)

• Turning Experimentation into Military Advantage: Defense AI in Portugal 

 Defense Acquisition University (DAU)

Defense Acquisition

• v. 55, no. 4, July-August 2026 
• From Blockbuster to Netflix: Acquisition Education and Training Must Learn About Disruption in the Age of AI
• Stop Digitally Paving Cow Paths
• In Forward Gear with Critical Thinking
• Compliance Paradox: Fixed-Price Contracts vs. Cost-Based Demands
• 2026 Innovation in Action Awards
• Breaking the Mold: Accelerating Kill Chain Capabilities Through the Valley of Death the Joint Fires Network (JFN) as a Model for Rapid Joint Acquisition
• From Friction to Velocity: Building the Expedited Research Innovation System (ERIS)
• Just in Time Kit: Transforming Army Cryptographic Logistics Through Critical Thinking
• Innovation in Overcoming Obstacles: Ensuring Mission Continuity Through Acquisition Agility
• Forging the Future
• Breaking the Bureaucracy Barrier: Full Throttle on B-52 Re-Engine Through Innovative Acquisition
• v. 55, no. 5, September-October 2026 
• Digital Acquisition Leadership Unchained: The Problem and the Core Solution
• The Missing Link: Acquisition Reference Architecture
• Validating IPT Use of a Technical Management Stack for Engineering Work and Data
• A WarU Workshop Bridges Digital Engineering and Acquisition
• Test Case: Leveraging Copilot to Assist in Data Ingestion and Analysis (Caveat Emptor)
• Securing AI-Enabled Systems Through Digital, Model-Based Systems, and Loss-Based Engineering
• Leveraging AI to Fight Complexity and Unlock Digital Acquisition 
• Digital Acquisition: A Catalyst for Acquisition Transformation

 Department of Defense/War (DOD/DOW)

• Supplier Cost and Pricing Transparency 

 Department of Defense/War, Inspector General (DODIG/DODIW)

• DOWIG-2026-117 Audit of the Management of Marine Corps Prepositioning Program–Norway Equipment 
• DOWIG-2026-115 Follow-Up Audit of Department of War Privacy Controls over Health Care Data  
• Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) 
• Operation Southern Guard (OSG) 

 Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General

• OIG-26-24 Border Patrol's Small Drone Program Enhanced Operational Capabilities, but Faced Challenges (REDACTED) 
• OIG-26-21 FEMA Disaster Response Crew Violated Law and Policy by Skipping Homes with Political Signage 

 Department of State Security Office of Inspector General

• Lead Inspector General for Operation Southern Guard | Quarterly Report to the United States Congress | April 1, 2026 - June 30, 2026 

 Department of the Treasury

• Treasury Launches Unprecedented Campaign Against Iranian Regime on Economic D-Day 

 Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab)

• How Russian Content Sought to Influence Armenia’s Electoral Information Space 

 Egmont: The Royal Institute for International Relations

• Beyond Crisis Management: Next Generation EU and the Future of European Solidarity 
• Moody Mutiny or Coup Attempt in Niger? Military Junta Faces Internal Threat from its Own 

 Eisenhower Center for Space and Defense

• Space & Defense Journal, Summer 2026, v. 17, no. 1 
• Golden Dome: Seeking Space Security
• Space-Based Missile Defense with Early Interceptor Launch Strategies
• Planetary Defense as the Ethico-Legal Gateway for International Space Security
• The Global Chessboard: Strategic Deterrence in a New Era of Great Power Competition
• Critical Strategic Deterrence Questions for Today
• Autonomous Navigation in Cislunar Satellites
• A Cislunar Economic Forecast under Public-Private Partnership
• The Baltic Bear Trap Wargame
• Death of Battlefield Hide-and-Seek

 Energy information Administration (EIA)

• Dangote Refinery Drives Increase in Petroleum Shipments from Nigeria 
• U.S. Uranium Production More Than Tripled in 2025 and Was the Highest Since 2017 

 European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Hybrid CoE)

• Western Balkans: Domestic, Regional and International Trends Creating Hybrid Threat Potential 

 European Policy Centre (EPC)

• Unready For Enlargement: And What the European Union Should Do About It 

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

• Investigating Professional Money Laundering, Underground Banking, and the Use of Hawala and Other Similar Service Providers 

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

• Japan’s Security Policy Under Prime Minister Takaichi: Pushing a Realist Agenda into Higher Gear 

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

• China’s Civil-Military Drone Fusion 
• The US-Saudi Nuclear Deal: Abandoning the Gold Standard 

 German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik)

• The EU’s New Arctic Strategy: Opportunities for Europe’s Digital Sovereignty 
• The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty after the Failed Review Conference 

 Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

• Divided Lands: How Cyber Scams Reshape Communities, Economies and Ecosystems in Cambodia 

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

• Closing the Gap: Consolidating Terrorist Threat Intelligence in Frontier AI Governance 
• From the Belly of the Beast!’: Militant Accelerationists and the Iran War 
• Playful Extremism: Unmasking Jihadist Identifiers in Roblox Games Among Minors 

 Global Public Policy Institute (GPPI)

• Moldova's Security in 2030: Four Scenarios of Risk, Resilience and Strategic Choice 

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• DOE Contracting: Risk-Informed Oversight and Clearer Expectations for Assurance Systems Would Improve Accountability GAO-26-107850 
• Federal Social Safety Net Programs: Millions of Workers, Including Many Employed by Large Employers, Continue to Rely on Medicaid and SNAP [Reissued with revisions on Aug. 24, 2026] GAO-26-108703 
• National Security Space: DOD Has Opportunities to Improve Its Use of Commercial Data and Related Services GAO-26-107959 
• Navy Readiness: Actions Needed to Address Costly Attack Submarine Maintenance Challenges GAO-26-109256  
• Opportunity Zones: Effects of Original Tax Incentive Mostly Unknown and Revised Incentive May Offer Improvements GAO-26-108132 

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

• Global Health Data in a Shifting International Order: Risks and Implications for Small and Middle Powers 

 Henley Putnam University

• Journal of Strategic Security, 2026, v. 19, no. 3 
• Was the US Invasion of Iraq a Mistake, or Are We Missing the Emergence of a Promising Democracy?
• Parallel Failures: The Recurring Logic of Interventionist Blunders from Ukraine to Mexico
• Between Markets and Maritime Might: India’s Engagements in the Indo-Pacific’s Emerging Order
• Structural Dependency: NATO, Defense Industry Politics, and Europe’s Stagnation
• Reinterpreting the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Dispute in the Nile Basin through the Game Theories of Attrition and Bargaining
• Complex Adaptive Resilience and Asymmetrical Balancing: Russia and the 2022 Sanctions Regime
• Teaching Strategic Intelligence in Political Transition
• Algorithms in Battle: AI, International Relations, and Future Warfare
• Transitional Terrorism in South Asia: Understanding the Kuki-Chin National Front Using the Crime-Terror Nexus

 Henry L. Stimson Center

• INKA—Scaling Scientific Collaboration Across Latin America and the Caribbean  
• INKA Strategic Program on Critical Minerals and Advanced Materials: From Resource Endowment to Knowledge-Based Value Capture in Latin America 
• Latin America’s Biotechnology Future: From Biodiversity to Global Innovation  
• Regional Cooperation in Artificial Intelligence: A Blueprint for International Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean 

 Heritage Foundation

• Regional Security System and the Eastern Caribbean 

 Hudson Institute

• A Test Case for U.S. Resolve: Securing the Release of Uyghur Doctor Gulshan Abbas  

Human Rights Watch

• ‘Not Genuine with Justice’: Sri Lanka’s Lack of Will to Prosecute Past Abuses 
• ‘We Are Living on Borrowed Time’: Repression of Civil Society in Tunisia 

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

• How America Can Reduce Its Dependence on Chinese Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) 

 Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA) 

• The AfD’s Rise in German Politics 
• Assessing Japan’s 2026 Defence White Paper 
• China’s AI Diplomacy and the Global South 
• Data on a Beam of Light: Li-Fi and India’s Military Communications 
• The Mecca Pact: A Middle-Power Coalition amid Turbulent Transition in West Asia 
• PMF and Iraq’s Foreign-Policy Autonomy 

 Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

• Can AI Help You Get a Clearance? Analysis of AI Answers to Clearance-Related Questions 

 Institute for Integrated Transitions (IFIT)

• Conducting Narrative Assessments in Polarised Contexts: Lessons from Kenya 

 Institute for Science and International Security

• New Passive Defensive Construction Identified at the Alabuga SEZ 
• Probable Uranium Storage Facility Identified at the Natanz Nuclear Complex 

 Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP) 

• Beyond Cable Protection: Taiwan’s Undersea Infrastructure Resilience in the Age of AI 
• The Chechen Choice: The Price of Personalized Rule in Modern Russia 
• CPEC and China’s Strategic Web: Power, Connectivity, and Control in Pakistan and Beyond 
• From Military Dominance to Military-Civil Fusion: China’s National Defence in the Semiconductor Industry 
• The Global Crisis of Forced Displacement: Where Are We and Where Are We Heading?   
• Myanmar and the Growing Influence of China 
• One Ocean, Many Currents: China’s Norm-Shaping Campaign at Sea and Europe’s Fragmented Response 
• Silk Cage Webinar Report-V: Hormuz in the Silk Cage: China’s Choke Point Strategy by 2030–35 

 Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) 

• Chatbots and the Ballot Box: Evaluating Accuracy, Sourcing, and Language Gaps in AI Answers to Election Questions 
• Online Domestic Extremism in Canada Data Briefing – March 2026 to May 2026 

 Institute for the Study of War

• Africa File
• August 27, 2026 Sustained Conflict in Tigray; North African Mediation in the Sahel      
• China & Taiwan Update
• August 21, 2026 
• August 25, 2026 
• August 28, 2026 
• Iran Update
• August 24, 2026 
• August 25, 2026 
• August 26, 2026 
• August 27, 2026 
• August 28, 2026 
• Korean Peninsula Update
• August 26, 2026 
• Russian Occupation Update
• August 27, 2026 
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment
• August 24, 2026 
• August 25, 2026 
• August 26, 2026 
• August 27, 2026 
• August 28, 2026 
• August 29, 2026 
• August 30, 2026 

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

• Beyond the Chokepoints: The Arctic and the Making of a Networked Heartland 
• From Settler Terrorism to State-Enabled Violence: Rethinking Counterterrorism in the West Bank 
• Meloni between Trump and Europe: The Limits of Political Adaptability 
• The Trap of Migration Sovereignism: What the Ceuta Tragedy Teaches Us 

 International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS) 

• Denmark: From Super-Atlanticist to European Hawk 
• Estonia’s Balancing Act: Hard Security and High Principles 
• Europeanising NATO: European Leadership 
• Europeanising NATO: Planning 
• Small States Series. Reorganising Dependence: Lithuania’s Response to the Erosion of the Rules-Based International Order 

 International Crisis Group 

• Assessing the New U.S. Initiative for Libya  
• Policing the Bangsamoro: Peace in the Southern Philippines 

 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

• From Illegal Garimpo to Good Governance: Strengthening Responses to Illicit Gold in the Brazilian Amazon 

 Irregular Warfare Center (IWC)

• China’s Irregular Warfare Strategy and Actions in the Bahamas 

 Jewish Institute for National Security of America

• Shifting the Center of Gravity: Transforming the U.S.-Israel Security Partnership 

 Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI)

• Clarifying Canada’s role in NATO’s Arctic Sentry 

 Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

• Paving the Way for Secondary Bilingual Education Programs: An Analysis of Policy and Practice 

 Mitchell Institute

• Launch Is an Event, Sustainment Is the Campaign: Building an On-Orbit Sustainment Ecosystem 

 National Bureau of Asian Research

• Achieving Cyber Risk Resilience: Analyzing Alternative Policy Approaches  

 National Defence University Helsinki

• China–Russia Alignment in the Arctic : Assessing the Potential 'Dual-Use' Economic and Technological Cooperation in the Russian Arctic since 2022   
• European Manual on Strategic Culture  
• Many Visible and Invisible Threads: Russian Military Commissariats, Mobilization and Reserve Training, 2007-2026  
• Research Papers on Artificial Intelligence in the Military Operational Environment and Wargaming  
• Studying Tactics: The Research Process from the Perspective of Operational Art and Tactics  
• Triple A: Russian Informational Means of Strategic Deterrence - A Case Study on Nuclear Rhetoric 

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

• Beyond Strategic Sufficiency: Nuclear Posture for the Simultaneity Problem 
• Enduring Arms Control Myths: A Century of Experience 

 Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI)

• CMSI Note 24: Crossing a Hellscape: PLA Views on New U.S. Military Concepts to Defend Taiwan 
• CMSI Translations #35: How to Leverage the "Butterfly Effect" to Cause the Collapse of "Taiwan Independence" Elements? 

 Naval War College Stockton Center for International Law

• International Law Studies, 2026, v. 108, no. 1  
• An Exceptional Model at Sea: Functionalist Targeting and the Legal Vulnerability of Maritime Civil Defense in Japan 

 North Atlantic Policy Forum

• Deterrence and Dialogue: Towards a Coordinated GCC Foreign Policy on Iran 

 Observer Research Foundation

• China Studies in India: Considerations of Geopolitics, Economics, and Academic Priorities 
• Forging Pathways for Urban Resilience in the MENA Region 
• Recontextualising Industrial Policy: Lessons from the East Asian Developmental State 

 Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES)

• From Targets to Tonnes: Can Europe’s Carmakers Unlock Green Steel?  

Oxford University Press (OUP)

• Communicating with AI: Philosophical Perspectives [open access books] 

 Pew Research Center

• Americans Want Transparency When AI is Used in Their Healthcare 
• From Diagnoses to Treatments, Why Americans Use AI Chatbots for Health 
• How South Koreans View Their Relationship with the U.S. 
• International Views of the U.S. and Its President are Increasingly Correlated 
• No Easy Fix for Bogus Respondents in Online Opt-In Polls 

 Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS)

• Weak States in a Turbulent Middle East 

 Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

• Crying Wolf? The United States and BRICS in the Global Order 
• Preventing and Managing a US-China Crisis 

 RAND Corporation

• Achieving AI Model Weight Security Level 3 (SL3) 
• Breaking Glass, Missing Hands: Addressing Workforce Constraints That Threaten the Resilience of the Space Industrial Base 
• Emergency Management Research: Hard to Find, Even More Difficult to Organize 
• Evaluating the Case for Solar Panel Recycling Mandates in the United States 
• Federal Revenue When AI Replaces Labor: An Examination of Economic Scenarios with Highly Capable Artificial Intelligence 
• Operational Reliance on AI in Supply Chains and Emerging Insurance Risks 

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

• The Evolution of Russia's Precision Strike: Adopting Mass Precision 

 S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA), September 2026, v. 18, no. 5 
• True Crime Community and the Rise of Nihilistic Violent Extremism in Indonesia
• The Philippines Twenty-Five Years after 9/11: Declining Terrorism, Diffusing Violence
• A High-Stakes Alliance: JNIM–FLA Tactical Convergence and Mali’s Shifting Security Balance

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

• The Humanitarian Funding Gap in Chad: Implications for Vulnerable Populations 
• Overcoming Barriers to Integration for Sudanese Refugees in Chad: Education, Employment and Land Access 

 Swedish Institute of International Affairs

• NATO and the Future of Arctic Security 

 Taylor & Francis

• African Security
• Unmasking and Mapping Kidnap for Ransom (K4R) in Nigeria’s Crime-Terror Landscape Using Behaviour Sequence Analysis [open access article] 
• Civil Wars
• Creative Research Methods and Civilian Agency in Civil Wars: Crafting the Past Through Memory Workshops in Colombia [open access article] 
• Even Better Than the Real Thing? Measuring the Multidimensional Reintegration of Graduated Ex-Combatants in Colombia [open access article] 
• Understanding Change in Non-State Armed Group Behaviour: Zapatista-Rebel Interactions in Mexico [open access article]   
• Why Do Peasants Fight Rebels? The Cases of Civilian Defence Forces Against the FARC in Southern Tolima, Colombia [open access article] 
• Critical Studies on Terrorism
• Beyond Binaries: Civil Society Countering Far-Right Antifeminism in Germany [open access article] 
• Building the Fascist Body: Combat Sports, Violence and Masculinity in Far-Right Extremism  [open access article] 
• Economic Coercion as State Terrorism: U.S. Tariff Policy and Its Socioeconomic Impact on Cuba [open access article] 
• Embodied Fear, Embodied Knowledge: Vulnerability, Crip Epistemologies and the PTSD-Affected Researcher [open access article] 
• ICE as Domestic State Terror: Operation Metro Surge and the Production of Fear in Minneapolis [open access article] 
• “No One Wants to End Up as the Black Sheep”: The Localisation of P/CVE Policy in Sweden [open access article] 
• The Politics Of “Political Violence”: Terrorism, Violence and the Political [open access article] 
• Uhud, Kairouan and the Battle of Ben Gardane: Situating Salafī-Jihādist Militancy in Context [open access article] 
• Violence from Abroad: The Cultural Imaginary of Terrorism in Swedish Parliamentary Debate and Anti-Terrorist Legislation, 1970–1973 [open access article] 
• Defense & Security Analysis
• The Defence Economics of Artificial intelligence & Machine Learning: Classification and Applications [open access article] 
• Innovation Intermediation in Total Defence: The Case of Combitech in Sweden [open access article] 
• Ethnic and Racial Studies
• Energy Communities in a Transnational Deliberative Framework: From Local Energy Democracy to Global Ecological Deliberation [open access article] 
• Exilic Epistemic Displacement: External Actors Reproducing Forms of Epistemic Injustice in Global Public Discourse [open access article] 
• The Five Logics of the Humanitarian Migrant Services Industry [open access article] 
• Immigration Enforcement, Open Borders, and the Chinese Exclusion Cases [open access article] 
• Racial Borderscapes and The Ungrounding of Migrant Life: Thinking with Space, Gender and Labour [open access article] 
• International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence
• The Early Cold War and Sweden’s Counterespionage in Relation to the Soviet Diplomatic Mission in Stockholm 1945–1955 [open access article] 
• Navigating Secrecy in Innovation: Coping Mechanisms for Public–Private Collaboration in Intelligence and Security [open access article] 
• Spy Versus Spy: Myanmar’s Multiple Counterintelligence Challenges [open access article] 
• Ukrainian Intelligence’s Use of Telegram in Wartime [open access article] 
• Journal of Risk Research
• Foundations of Societal Safety and Security [open access article] 
• How to Further Develop the United Nations’ Risk Assessment Guidance Using Current Risk Science Knowledge [open access article] 
• Non-Verbal Uncertainty Cues Impact Assessments of Verbal Probability Information [open access article] 
• Reconceptualising Public Outrage in Risk Communication: The Relevance of Moral Emotions [open access article] 

 Toda Peace Institute

• The Spirit of Democracy 
• Why Peacebuilding Stays Underfunded: What the UN’s New Overview Gets Right, and Misses 

 Transnational Institute (TNI)

• Cuba, Nicaragua and Palestine: A Shared Struggle Against Colonialism and Imperialism 

 US Marine Corps (USMC)

• Ground Combat Element 2040 

 White House

• Declaring a National Emergency to Secure the United States Bulk-Power System 
• Promoting Efficiency, Accountability, and Performance in Federal Contracting 
• Establishing the United States Space Academy 

 UK Defence and Armed Forces

• Quinquennial Review of the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme 2023: Final Progress Update 

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

• AI Adoption in Trade Facilitation : Findings from Thailand 
• A Paradigm Shift to AI-Native Network Infrastructure 
• Regional Framework on Strengthening Rail Cybersecurity in the Asia-Pacific Region 

 UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA)

• Operationalizing Article VII of the Biological Weapons Convention 

 U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC)

• The Dalai Lama's Succession: Geopolitical Implications and Policy Recommendations for Congress 

 US Space Command (USSPACECOM)

• Space Warfighting Environment 2040 

 United States Studies Centre (USSC) 

• Allies and Partners Poll 2026: Alliances Hold, Views Fragment 

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• 25 Years After 9/11: NCTC Directors Assess Progress and Remaining Challenges 
• After the SDF: What Comes Next for Northeast Syria and U.S. Policy 
• Assad’s Speech Laws Are Putting Syria’s Security and Reconstruction at Risk 
• Helping the Gulf and Ukraine Build Their Counter-Drone Partnership