Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)
· Community-Based Dispute Resolution Processes in Bamiyan Province
· Community-Based Dispute Resolution Processes in Nangarhar Province
· A Holistic Justice System for Afghanistan
American Academy of Pediatrics
· Pediatrics, January 2010, v. 125, no. 1, p. 13-21 - Children on the Homefront: The Experience of Children From Military Families
American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)
· The Challenge of Muslim Integration in Germany and the United States
· The Fate of Deutschland AG
· The Lasting Division of Germany: Two Germanys - Still Far from United
American Security Project
· Are We Winning? Measuring Progress in the Struggle Against al Qaeda and Associate Movements
Atlantic Council
· A New Transatlantic Compact for NATO: SAG Issue Brief
Australian Strategic Policy Institute
· A Delicate Issue: Asia’s Nuclear Future
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
· An Enhanced Engagement Moving Beyond Security Training for the Palestinian Authority
· Export Control Development in the United Arab Emirates: From Commitments to Compliance
· What Accounts for the Success of Islamist Parties in the Arab World
Brookings Institute
· Iran Sanctions: Options, Opportunities and Consequences
· Judicial Protection of Internally Displaced Persons: The Colombian Experience
Cairo Institute for Human Rights
· Bastion of Impunity, Mirage of Reform [press release]
· Arabic version
· English version
Center for a New American Security
· Contractors in Conflicts: Adapting to a New Reality
· Time for Action: Redefining SOF Missions and Activities
Center for Security Studies (CSS)
· No. 65: The Crisis of the NPT: Ahead of the 2010 Review Conference
· No. 66: Shanghai Cooperation Organisation: An Anti-Western Alignment?
Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
· Defense Department PAS Positions
· Iran as a Nuclear Weapons Power
· Iraq: Creating a Strategic Partnership
· Next Steps for the Transatlantic Climate Change Partnership
· The Northern Distribution Network and the Modern Silk Road: Planning for Afghanistan's Future
· U.S.-Japan-India Strategic Dialogue
Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
· Security Sector Reform Monitor: Timor-Leste
Congress. House. Armed Services Committee
· Hearings
o Understanding Cyberspace as a Medium for Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization [December 16]
Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee
· The Lisbon Treaty: Implications for Future Relations Between the European Union and the United States
Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee
· Has the TSA Breach Jeopardized National Security? An Examination of What Happened and Why
· Violent Extremism: How Are People Moved from Constitutionally-Protected Thought to Acts of Terrorism?
Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee
· Reevaluating U.S. Policy in Central Asia
Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee
· Afghanistan Contracts: An Overview
· One DHS, One Mission: Efforts to Improve Management Integration at the Department of Homeland Security
· Tools to Combat Deficits and Waste: Expedited Rescission Authority
· Safeguarding the American Dream: Prospects for Our Economic Future and Proposals to Secure It
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
· Coming up Short on Pakistan
· Security and Politics Collide in Iraq
Department of Defense Sexual Assault Prevention and Response
· Annual Report on Sexual Harassment and Violence at the U.S. Military Service Academies, Academic Program Year 2008-2009
Department of Homeland Security Inspector General
· OIG-10-19 - DHS Conference Spending Practices and Oversight
· DHS Conference Spending Practices and Oversight, Attachment 1: Fiscal Year 2007 Conferences as Reported by DHS Components
Energy Information Administration (EIA)
· Annual Energy Outlook 2010 Early Release with Projections to 2035
European Union Institute for Security Studies
· Afghanistan: Time to Curb the Law of Inertia
· The Iranian Nuclear Issue: A Never-Ending Story
· Report on the India-EU Forum: Effective Multilateralism
Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
· "How the United States Lost the Naval War of 2015" article by James Kraska in Obris
· The Palestinian Islamic Jihad‟s U.S. Cell (1988-95): The Ideological Foundations of its Propaganda Strategy
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· Anti-Money Laundering: Improved Communication Could Enhance the Support FinCEN Provides to Law Enforcement, GAO-10-141
· Biosurveillance: Developing a Collaboration Strategy Is Essential to Fostering Interagency Data and Resource Sharing, GAO-10-171
· Department of Homeland Security: Actions Taken Toward Management Integration, but a Comprehensive Strategy Is Still Needed, GAO-10-131
· Department of Homeland Security: A Comprehensive Strategy Is Still Needed to Achieve Management Integration Departmentwide, GAO-10-318T [testimony]
· Department of Veterans Affairs' Implementation of Information Security Education Assistance Program, GAO-10-170R
· DOD Civilian Personnel: Intelligence Personnel System Incorporates Safeguards, but Opportunities Exist for Improvement, GAO-10-134
· Influenza Pandemic: Monitoring and Assessing the Status of the National Pandemic Implementation Plan Needs Improvement, GAO-10-73
· Overseas Contingency Operations: Funding and Cost Reporting for the Department of Defense, GAO-10-288R
· Status of GAO Recommendations to the Department of Defense (Fiscal Years 2001-2008), GAO-10-211R · Troubled Asset Relief Program: The U.S. Government Role as Shareholder in AIG, Citigroup, Chrysler, and General Motors and Preliminary Views on its Investment Management Activities, GAO-10-325T [testimony]
· UN Office for Project Services: Management Reforms Proceeding but Effectiveness Not Assessed, and USAID's Oversight of Grants Has Weaknesses, GAO-10-168
Heritage Foundation
· Five Reasons Why FEMA Should Stay at DHS
· US Should Stay Firm on Implementation of Okinawa Force Realignment
· US Should Push for Adjustment in U.N. Dues
· Winning the War in Afghanistan
Human Rights Watch
· Bloody Monday: The September 28 Massacre and Rapes by Security Forces in Guinea
· Hostile Shores: Abuse and Refoulement of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Yemen
· In the Name of Unity: The Yemeni Government’s Brutal Response to Southern Movement Protests
Humansecurity-cities.org
· Human Security for an Urban Century: Local Challenges, Global Perspectives
Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)
· Documents Assessing the Organizational Structure of FEDAT
· Farsi and English Versions of Document on Neutron Initiator
· The Trials of the German-Iranian Trader Mohsen Vanaki: The German Federal Intelligence Service Assesses that Iran Likely Has a Nuclear Weapons Program (Updated for Dec. 15th)
Institute for the Study of War
· Afghanistan – Order of Battle
Institute of Race Relations (IRR)
· Spooked! How Not to Prevent Violent Extremism
International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament
· Eliminating Nuclear Threats: A Practical Agenda for Global Policymakers
· The Security of Pakistan's Nuclear Facilities
International Crisis Group
· Central Asia: Islamists in Prison
· Reshuffling the Cards (I)?: Syria’s Evolving Strategy
· Reshuffling the Cards (II)?: Syria’s New Hand
· Sudan Preventing Implosion
· Uribe’s Possible Third Term and Conflict Resolution in Colombia
International Energy Agency (IEA)
· International Energy Agency Electricity Survey
International Relations and Security Network
· The Fall and Rise of Religion?
· Hamas Seeks Wiggle Room
· Intel Brief: New Ethics, Same Jihad
· Tokyo Plays Hard to Get with Washington
Jamestown Foundation
· China Brief, v. 9, no. 25, December 16, 2009
o CCP party Apparatchiks Gaining at the Expense of Technocrats
o China in the Caribbean: The new big brother
o J-10: The New Cornerstone of Sino-Pakistani Defense Cooperation
o China’s Rising Profile in International Arms Sales
· Terrorism Monitor, v. 7, no. 38, December 15, 2009
o New Hezbollah Manifesto Emphasizes Political Role in a United Lebanon
o Jihadis Debate Growing Rift Between al-Qaeda and the Taliban
o Military Victory in South Waziristan or the Beginning of a Long War?
o Terror Without Frontiers: Transnational Terror Plots Expose Lashkar-e-Taiba's Global Reach
Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)
· Dynamic Planning for COIN in Afghanistan
Lexington Institute
· The Teaching of American History: Promise and Performance
Muslim American Civil Liberties Coalition (MACLC)
· countertERROrism Policy : MACLC’s Critique of the NYPD’s report on Homegrown Radicalism
Muslim Public Affairs Council
· Building Bridges to Strengthen America: Forging an Effective Counterterrorism Enterprise between Muslim Americans and Law Enforcement
National Academies Press
· BioWatch and Public Health Surveillance: Evaluating Systems for the Early Detection of Biological Threats: Abbreviated Version: Summary [free download but registration required]
· Priorities for the National Vaccine Plan
National Security Archive
· Kyoto Redux?: Obama's Challenges at Copenhagen Echo Clinton's at Kyoto
NEFA Foundation
· The Wanat Battle video [July 13, 2008 Wanat battle]
Open Society Institute & Soros Foundation Network
· Muslims in Europe: A Report on 11 EU Cities
Peterson Institute for International Economics
· The International Monetary Fund and Regulatory Challenges
· The World Needs Further Monetary Ease, Not an Early Exit
Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life
· Global Restrictions on Religion
Pew Research Center
· Little Support for Terrorism Among Muslim Americans
Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
· Mixed Views of Obama at Year's End: Unabated Economic Gloom, Divides on Afghanistan and Health Care
RAND
· Iran Sanctions: Options, Opportunities, and Consequences (Testimony)
· Trends in Connectivity Technologies and Their Socioeconomic Impacts: Final Report of the Study: Policy Options for the Ubiquitous Internet Society
· Understanding Terrorist Motivations (Testimony)
· United States Air Force Aircraft Fleet Retention Trends: A Historical Analysis
RTI International [Tricare report]
· 2008 Department of Defense Survey of Health Related Behaviors Among Active Duty Military Personnel: A Component of the Defense Lifestyle Assessment Program (DLAP) [LARGE FILE]
· Report link and survey summary
Small Wars Journal
· Afghanistan Governed by a Federal System with Autonomous Regions: A Path to Success? http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/journal/docs-temp/331-carroll.pdf
· Arghandab and the Battle for Kandahar
· Counterinsurgency and Professional Military Education
· Does The United States Still Need USSCOM?
Task Force on Controlled Unclassified Information
· Report and Recommendations of the Presidential Task Force on Controlled Unclassified Information
Transnational Institute
· Redefining Targets: Towards a Realistic Afghan Drug Control Strategy
Trust for America’s Health (TFAH)
· Ready or Not? Protecting the Public’s Health from Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism
UK National Audit Office
· Ministry of Defence: Major Projects Report 2009 [Projects reviewed include CVF, JSF, A400M, Typhoon, and FSTA (A330 tanker)]
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
· Afghanistan Opium Survey 2009
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
· Islam vs. Iran's 'Islamic Republic'
· Staying Solvent: Assessing Al-Qaeda’s Financial Portfolio
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Friday's Miscellany 12-11-2009
Air Force Space Command (AFSC)
· High Frontier, 2009, v. 6, no. 1
o Air Force Space Acquisition by Mr. Gary E. Payton
o Applying the Lessons of Acquisition Success in the Next Generation Electro-Optical Program by Maj Gen Ellen M. Pawlikowski
o Requirements Generation: The Crucial First Step to Delivering Warfighter Capability by Col Jay A. Moody
o Forward: Space and Missile Systems Center “Building the Future of Military Space Today” by Lt Gen John T. “Tom” Sheridan
o Getting it Right: Lessons from Failed Space Acquisitions by Mr. Douglas Loverro
o Mission Assurance: “Baking In” Mission Success by Col David Swanson, Dr. Sumner Matsunaga et al.
o PMAG: The Relentless Pursuit of Program Management Excellence by Col Mun H. Kwon
o Keys to Acquisition Success by Ms. Catherine J. Steele
o Firth Principles by Dr. Robert L. Butterworth
o Regaining Credibility: Making Nuclear Sustainment a Model of Excellence by Col James D. Fisher
o Acquisition Education for Space Warriors by Dr. Brian K. Anderson
o Acquiring Space Systems in an Uncertain Future: The Introduction of Value-Centric Acquisition by Dr. Owen C. Brown and Mr. Paul Eremenko
o The Cyberspace-Development Dogfight: Tightening the Acquisitions Turn Circle by Maj Matt Larkowski, Dr. Robert F. Mills et al.
o Is Acquiring Space Systems a Wicked Problem? by Maj Nick J. Martin
o Ten Rules for Common Sense Space Acquisition by Maj Gen Thomas D. Taverney, retired and Col James D. Rendleman, retired
o Weapon Systems Acquisition Reform Act by Maj Jung H. Ha
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy
· Polls on the Environment and Global Warming
American Probation and Parole Association
· Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response Planning: Guidelines for Community Corrections
Amnesty International
· Iran Election Contested, Repression Compounded
· Mexican Civilian Authorities Must Investigate Pattern of Serious Abuses by Military
· Nigerian Police ‘Kill at Will’
Asia Foundation
· Mongolia Corruption Benchmarking Survey
Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)
· Connecting the Docs: Towards an Integrated National Security
· Japan: Recasting Politics, and Opening Up Strategic 'Space'
Asian Human Rights Commission
· The State of Human Rights in Pakistan in 2009
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
· Breaking the Climate Impasse with China: A Global Solution
· Pakistan and the Cold War
BR McCaffrey Associates LLC
· After Action Report – General Barry R McCaffrey USA (Ret0 – Visit to Kuwait and Afghanistan – 10-18 November 2009
· Strategic National Security Challenges Facing the United States
Brookings
· A Bold Gamble for Afghanistan
· Climate Change and Japan’s Post-Copenhagen Challenge
· Copenhagen Climate Change Conference
Center for a New American Security
· Smart Defense Acquisition: Learning from French Procurement Reform
· Taiwan's Gamble: The Cross-Strait Rapprochement and Its Implications for U.S. Policy
Center for American Progress
· Climate Change on the Move: Climate Migration Will Affect the World’s Security
· Getting Back on Track to Close Guantanamo: How to Get to Zero
· Myth vs. Reality on the Copenhagen Climate Summit: A Look at the Facts on the Ground at the U.N. Climate Conference
Center for Security Policy
· How to Lose a War
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
· The Case for an Afghanistan Timeline
· The Day After Copenhagen
· Defense Department PAS positions
· Shaping Afghan National Security Forces: What It Will Take to Implement President Obama’s New Strategy
Central Statistics Organization - Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
· Summary of The National Risk and Vulnerability Assessment 2007/8: A Profile of Afghanistan http://nrva.cso.gov.af/Brochure%20English-Final.pdf
Chatham House
· China’s Overseas Direct Investment in the UK
· Private Financing of Renewable Energy: A Guide for Policymakers
· Procedural Safeguards for Security Detention in Non-International Armed Conflict
Congress. House. Armed Services Committee
· Hearings
o Afghanistan: The Results of the Strategic Review, Part I & II. [Dec 3 and 8, 2009]
o Status of Army and Marine Corps Reset Requirements, Part II. [December 10, 2009]
Congress. House. Foreign Relations Committee
· New Direction or Old Path? Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI)
· A Strategic and Economic Review of Aerospace Exports
· U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan – PART II
Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee
· Moving Toward More Effective Immigration Detention Management
Congress. House. Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
· Maritime Domain Awareness
· Public Transit Safety: Examining the Federal Role
Congress. Senate. Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs
· Examining the Federal Role in Overseeing the Safety of Public Transportation Systems
Congress. Senate. Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee
· Aviation Safety: Oversight of FAA Safety Initiatives
Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee
· The New Afghanistan Strategy: The View from the Ground
· Strengthening the Transatlantic Economy: Moving Beyond the Crisis
Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee
· Children and Disasters: A Progress Report on Addressing Needs
· The Diplomat’s Shield: Diplomatic Security in Today’s World
· Five Years After the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (IRTPA): Stopping Terrorist Travel
Congress. Senate. Judiciary Committee
· Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security
· Mortgage Fraud, Securities Fraud, and the Financial Meltdown: Prosecuting Those Responsible
Council on Foreign Affairs
· U.S.-NATO: Looking for Common Ground in Afghanistan
Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)
· Bandits, Borderlands and Opium Wars: Afghan State-building Viewed from the Margins
Department of Homeland Security
· Declaration of Principles Between the Department of Homeland Security of the United States of America and the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit of the United Mexican States
Department of Homeland Security Inspector General
· D-2010-027 Army's Management of the Operations and Support Phase of the Acquisition Process for Body Armor
· D-2010-025 Transportation Planning for the Withdrawal of DOD Personnel and Assets from Iraq
· OIG-10-17 - Annual Review of the United States Coast Guard's Mission Performance (FY 2008)
· OIG-10-14 - Management of the Transportation Security Administration's Logistics Center
· OIG-10-12 - Age Determination Practices for Unaccompanied Alien Children in ICE Custody
European Union Institute for Security Studies
· Abkhazia and the Georgian-Abkhaz Conflict: Autumn 2009
· In Defence of European Defence
· European Union Aid to Pakistan: Steadily on the Rise
Federation For American Immigration Reform (FAIR)
· Paving the Road to Amnesty: A Comprehensive Assessment of President Obama's Record on Immigration During His First Year in Office htt
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· Financial Management Systems: DHS Faces Challenges to Successfully Consolidating Its Existing Disparate Systems, GAO-10-76
· Intellectual Property: Enhancements to Coordinating U.S. Enforcement Efforts, GAO-10-219T [testimony]
· International Trade: Observations on U.S. and Foreign Countries' Export Promotion Activities, GAO-10-310T [testimony]
· Rail Transit: Observations on FTA's State Safety Oversight Program and Potential Change in Oversight Role, GAO-10-293T [testimony]
· Recovery Act: Status of States' and Localities' Use of Funds and Efforts to Ensure Accountability, GAO-10-231
· Recovery Act: Status of States' and Localities' Use of Funds and Efforts to Ensure Accountability (Appendixes), GAO-10-232SP
· Recovery Act: States' Use of Highway and Transit Funds and Efforts to Meet the Act's Requirements GAO-10-312T [testimony]
· State Department: Challenges Facing the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, GAO-10-290T
· State Department: Diplomatic Security's Recent Growth Warrants Strategic Review, GAO-10-156
· Telecommunications: FCC Needs to Improve Oversight of Wireless Phone Service, GAO-10-34
· Telecommunications: Surveys of Consumers and of State Utility Commissions about Wireless Phone Service, GAO-10-35SP, an E-supplement to GAO-10-34
· Transportation Worker Identification Credential: Progress Made in Enrolling Workers and Activating Credentials but Evaluation Plan Needed to Help Inform the Implementation of Card Readers, GAO-10-43
Government of Canada
· Canada's Engagement in Afghanistan, Report to Parliament, September 2009
Heritage Foundation
· Public Diplomacy 2.0: Where the U.S. Government Meets "New Media"
· Strategic Listening: How to Build Research Capacity Within the US Government
· The U.S. Can Afford the Troop Increase in Afghanistan
Human Rights Watch
· Lethal Force: Police Violence and Public Security in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo
· No Healing Here: Violence, Discrimination and Barriers to Health for Migrants in South Africa
· Preparing for the Polls: Improving Accountability for Electoral Violence in Uganda
· Sabotaged Schooling: Naxalite Attacks and Police Occupation of Schools in India’s Bihar and Jharkhand States
· Truth and Justice Can’t Wait: Human Rights Developments in Libya Amid Institutional Obstacles
· "You Will Be Punished": Attacks on Civilians in Eastern Congo
· "We Have the Promises of the World" Women's Rights in Afghanistan
Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS)
· Strategic Forum no. 251 - U.S.-Cambodia Defense Relations: De ning New Possibilities
· Defense Horizon no. 70 - STAR–TIDES and Starfish Networks: Supporting Stressed Populations with Distributed Talent
Institute for Public Policy Research
· Shared Responsibilities: A National Security Strategy for the UK
Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)
· Self-Serving Leaks from the A.Q. Khan Circle
Institute for Security Studies
· Monograph No 166: Nature and Extent of Environmental Crime in Kenya
· Enquete Sur La Criminalité à Bamako Conduite
· Trends, Impact and Policy Development on HIV/AIDS and African Armed Forces Conference Proceedings
· The State’s Response to Crime and Public Security in South Africa
· Policing in South Africa in 2007, Key Issues and Developments, Compiled by Bilkis Omar, 31 October – 1 November 2007
International Crisis Group
· Bangladesh: Getting Police Reform on Track
· Somaliland: A Way out of the Electoral Crisis
· Southern Thailand: Moving towards Political Solutions?
International Relations and Security Network
· Cocaine Trade Finds West Africa Window
· Costs of War: The Somalia Inheritance
· For Now, Peace in Sierra Leone
· Mexican Cartels Recruit Texan Teens
· Re-arrests Hope to Prove Bosnia Terror Plots
· Turkey and Israel: Ends and Beginnings
· Yemen's Dangerous Escalation
Information Sharing Environment (ISE)
· ITACG Intelligence Guide for First Responders
· Report on the Interagency Threat Assessment and Coordination Group Second Report for the Congress of the United States, The Secretary of Homeland Security, the Attorney General, and the Director of National Intelligence
Internet Security Alliance (ISA)
· Implementing the Obama Cyber Security Strategy via the ISA Social Contract Model
Lowry Institute
· Obama’s Surge: The United States, Australia and the Second War for Afghanistan
MIT Press
· Innovations, Fall 2009, v. 4, no. 4
o Energy for Change: Creating Climate Solutions [special issue] available for free articles include:
o Assurance of Supply: A New Framework for Nuclear Energy
o Enabling a Nuclear Revival—and Managing Its Risks
o Responsible Expansion of Nuclear Power Requires Global Cooperation on Spent-Fuel Management
o The World Institute for Nuclear Security: Filling a Gap in the Global Nuclear Security Regime
National Nuclear Security Administration
· Radiological Survey of Downtown Washington DC for the 2009 Presidential Inauguration
National Security Archive
· Kennedy Considered Supporting Coup in South Vietnam, August 1963
· Operación México: Programa Argentino de Rendición Extraordinaria Revelado por Documentos Desclasificados
· Thirtieth Anniversary of NATO's Dual-Track Decision: The Road to the Euromissiles Crisis and the End of the Cold War
Pakistan Security Research Unit, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford
· A Review of AfPak and the Ongoing Challenge of Pakistan
· At the Precipice: Is Pakistan About to Fail?
· Insurrection, Terrorism, and the Pakistan Army
· Public Perceptions of Pakistan’s War Against the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan
Peterson Institute for International Economics
· Reconciling Climate Change and Trade Policy
Pew Research Center
· The Millennials
Population Reference Bureau
· The Fight Against 'Honor Killings': Interview With Investigative Journalist Rana Husseini
Rand
· Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Use by Adults in the U.S.: A Snapshot as of Mid-November 2009
· Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Use by Adults in the U.S.: Detailed Survey Tables, Mid-November 2009
· Understanding the Role of Deterrence in Counterterrorism Security
Small Wars Journal
· Domestic Radical Islamic Insurgency
· Needed: An Exorcism in Kandahar
Strategic Studies Institute
· Learning From Security Sector Reform/Building in Afghanistan (Oct 2002 – Sept 2003)
Transnational Institute
· Redefining Targets: Towards a Realistic Afghan Drug Control Strategy
Transparency International
· Global Corruption Report 2009 : Corruption and the Private Sector
United Nations Foundation
· New Technologies in Emergencies and Conflicts: The Role of Information and Social Networks
US Air Force
· Air Force Energy Plan 2010
· Plan Appendices
o Air Force Acquisition & Technology Energy Plan 2010
o Air Force Aviation Operations Energy Plan 2010
o Air Force Infrastructure Energy Plan 2010
o Related information and video
US Army Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School
· Domestic Operational Law Handbook for Judge Advocates
US Institute of Peace (USIP)
· Online Discourse in the Arab World
· What Next for the Democratic Republic of Congo?
US Marine Corps
· U.S. Marine Corps S&T Strategic Plan: Leading Edge Technology for the Marines of Tomorrow
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
· Contending with the PKK's Narco-Terrorism
· Reforming the Rogue: Lessons from the U.S.-Libyan Rapprochement
· Saudi Royals Reunited? Crown Prince Sultan Returns Home
· Sulaiman Meets Obama as Washington's Lebanese Allies Face Crisis at Home
· A Victory for Islamism? The Second Lebanon War and Its Repercussions
White House
· National Strategy for Countering Biological Threats
· President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize speech
World Bank Group
· Doing Business in the Arab World 2010
World Public Opinion.org
· World Publics on International Cooperation
· High Frontier, 2009, v. 6, no. 1
o Air Force Space Acquisition by Mr. Gary E. Payton
o Applying the Lessons of Acquisition Success in the Next Generation Electro-Optical Program by Maj Gen Ellen M. Pawlikowski
o Requirements Generation: The Crucial First Step to Delivering Warfighter Capability by Col Jay A. Moody
o Forward: Space and Missile Systems Center “Building the Future of Military Space Today” by Lt Gen John T. “Tom” Sheridan
o Getting it Right: Lessons from Failed Space Acquisitions by Mr. Douglas Loverro
o Mission Assurance: “Baking In” Mission Success by Col David Swanson, Dr. Sumner Matsunaga et al.
o PMAG: The Relentless Pursuit of Program Management Excellence by Col Mun H. Kwon
o Keys to Acquisition Success by Ms. Catherine J. Steele
o Firth Principles by Dr. Robert L. Butterworth
o Regaining Credibility: Making Nuclear Sustainment a Model of Excellence by Col James D. Fisher
o Acquisition Education for Space Warriors by Dr. Brian K. Anderson
o Acquiring Space Systems in an Uncertain Future: The Introduction of Value-Centric Acquisition by Dr. Owen C. Brown and Mr. Paul Eremenko
o The Cyberspace-Development Dogfight: Tightening the Acquisitions Turn Circle by Maj Matt Larkowski, Dr. Robert F. Mills et al.
o Is Acquiring Space Systems a Wicked Problem? by Maj Nick J. Martin
o Ten Rules for Common Sense Space Acquisition by Maj Gen Thomas D. Taverney, retired and Col James D. Rendleman, retired
o Weapon Systems Acquisition Reform Act by Maj Jung H. Ha
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy
· Polls on the Environment and Global Warming
American Probation and Parole Association
· Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response Planning: Guidelines for Community Corrections
Amnesty International
· Iran Election Contested, Repression Compounded
· Mexican Civilian Authorities Must Investigate Pattern of Serious Abuses by Military
· Nigerian Police ‘Kill at Will’
Asia Foundation
· Mongolia Corruption Benchmarking Survey
Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)
· Connecting the Docs: Towards an Integrated National Security
· Japan: Recasting Politics, and Opening Up Strategic 'Space'
Asian Human Rights Commission
· The State of Human Rights in Pakistan in 2009
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
· Breaking the Climate Impasse with China: A Global Solution
· Pakistan and the Cold War
BR McCaffrey Associates LLC
· After Action Report – General Barry R McCaffrey USA (Ret0 – Visit to Kuwait and Afghanistan – 10-18 November 2009
· Strategic National Security Challenges Facing the United States
Brookings
· A Bold Gamble for Afghanistan
· Climate Change and Japan’s Post-Copenhagen Challenge
· Copenhagen Climate Change Conference
Center for a New American Security
· Smart Defense Acquisition: Learning from French Procurement Reform
· Taiwan's Gamble: The Cross-Strait Rapprochement and Its Implications for U.S. Policy
Center for American Progress
· Climate Change on the Move: Climate Migration Will Affect the World’s Security
· Getting Back on Track to Close Guantanamo: How to Get to Zero
· Myth vs. Reality on the Copenhagen Climate Summit: A Look at the Facts on the Ground at the U.N. Climate Conference
Center for Security Policy
· How to Lose a War
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
· The Case for an Afghanistan Timeline
· The Day After Copenhagen
· Defense Department PAS positions
· Shaping Afghan National Security Forces: What It Will Take to Implement President Obama’s New Strategy
Central Statistics Organization - Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
· Summary of The National Risk and Vulnerability Assessment 2007/8: A Profile of Afghanistan http://nrva.cso.gov.af/Brochure%20English-Final.pdf
Chatham House
· China’s Overseas Direct Investment in the UK
· Private Financing of Renewable Energy: A Guide for Policymakers
· Procedural Safeguards for Security Detention in Non-International Armed Conflict
Congress. House. Armed Services Committee
· Hearings
o Afghanistan: The Results of the Strategic Review, Part I & II. [Dec 3 and 8, 2009]
o Status of Army and Marine Corps Reset Requirements, Part II. [December 10, 2009]
Congress. House. Foreign Relations Committee
· New Direction or Old Path? Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI)
· A Strategic and Economic Review of Aerospace Exports
· U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan – PART II
Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee
· Moving Toward More Effective Immigration Detention Management
Congress. House. Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
· Maritime Domain Awareness
· Public Transit Safety: Examining the Federal Role
Congress. Senate. Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs
· Examining the Federal Role in Overseeing the Safety of Public Transportation Systems
Congress. Senate. Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee
· Aviation Safety: Oversight of FAA Safety Initiatives
Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee
· The New Afghanistan Strategy: The View from the Ground
· Strengthening the Transatlantic Economy: Moving Beyond the Crisis
Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee
· Children and Disasters: A Progress Report on Addressing Needs
· The Diplomat’s Shield: Diplomatic Security in Today’s World
· Five Years After the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (IRTPA): Stopping Terrorist Travel
Congress. Senate. Judiciary Committee
· Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security
· Mortgage Fraud, Securities Fraud, and the Financial Meltdown: Prosecuting Those Responsible
Council on Foreign Affairs
· U.S.-NATO: Looking for Common Ground in Afghanistan
Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)
· Bandits, Borderlands and Opium Wars: Afghan State-building Viewed from the Margins
Department of Homeland Security
· Declaration of Principles Between the Department of Homeland Security of the United States of America and the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit of the United Mexican States
Department of Homeland Security Inspector General
· D-2010-027 Army's Management of the Operations and Support Phase of the Acquisition Process for Body Armor
· D-2010-025 Transportation Planning for the Withdrawal of DOD Personnel and Assets from Iraq
· OIG-10-17 - Annual Review of the United States Coast Guard's Mission Performance (FY 2008)
· OIG-10-14 - Management of the Transportation Security Administration's Logistics Center
· OIG-10-12 - Age Determination Practices for Unaccompanied Alien Children in ICE Custody
European Union Institute for Security Studies
· Abkhazia and the Georgian-Abkhaz Conflict: Autumn 2009
· In Defence of European Defence
· European Union Aid to Pakistan: Steadily on the Rise
Federation For American Immigration Reform (FAIR)
· Paving the Road to Amnesty: A Comprehensive Assessment of President Obama's Record on Immigration During His First Year in Office htt
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· Financial Management Systems: DHS Faces Challenges to Successfully Consolidating Its Existing Disparate Systems, GAO-10-76
· Intellectual Property: Enhancements to Coordinating U.S. Enforcement Efforts, GAO-10-219T [testimony]
· International Trade: Observations on U.S. and Foreign Countries' Export Promotion Activities, GAO-10-310T [testimony]
· Rail Transit: Observations on FTA's State Safety Oversight Program and Potential Change in Oversight Role, GAO-10-293T [testimony]
· Recovery Act: Status of States' and Localities' Use of Funds and Efforts to Ensure Accountability, GAO-10-231
· Recovery Act: Status of States' and Localities' Use of Funds and Efforts to Ensure Accountability (Appendixes), GAO-10-232SP
· Recovery Act: States' Use of Highway and Transit Funds and Efforts to Meet the Act's Requirements GAO-10-312T [testimony]
· State Department: Challenges Facing the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, GAO-10-290T
· State Department: Diplomatic Security's Recent Growth Warrants Strategic Review, GAO-10-156
· Telecommunications: FCC Needs to Improve Oversight of Wireless Phone Service, GAO-10-34
· Telecommunications: Surveys of Consumers and of State Utility Commissions about Wireless Phone Service, GAO-10-35SP, an E-supplement to GAO-10-34
· Transportation Worker Identification Credential: Progress Made in Enrolling Workers and Activating Credentials but Evaluation Plan Needed to Help Inform the Implementation of Card Readers, GAO-10-43
Government of Canada
· Canada's Engagement in Afghanistan, Report to Parliament, September 2009
Heritage Foundation
· Public Diplomacy 2.0: Where the U.S. Government Meets "New Media"
· Strategic Listening: How to Build Research Capacity Within the US Government
· The U.S. Can Afford the Troop Increase in Afghanistan
Human Rights Watch
· Lethal Force: Police Violence and Public Security in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo
· No Healing Here: Violence, Discrimination and Barriers to Health for Migrants in South Africa
· Preparing for the Polls: Improving Accountability for Electoral Violence in Uganda
· Sabotaged Schooling: Naxalite Attacks and Police Occupation of Schools in India’s Bihar and Jharkhand States
· Truth and Justice Can’t Wait: Human Rights Developments in Libya Amid Institutional Obstacles
· "You Will Be Punished": Attacks on Civilians in Eastern Congo
· "We Have the Promises of the World" Women's Rights in Afghanistan
Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS)
· Strategic Forum no. 251 - U.S.-Cambodia Defense Relations: De ning New Possibilities
· Defense Horizon no. 70 - STAR–TIDES and Starfish Networks: Supporting Stressed Populations with Distributed Talent
Institute for Public Policy Research
· Shared Responsibilities: A National Security Strategy for the UK
Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)
· Self-Serving Leaks from the A.Q. Khan Circle
Institute for Security Studies
· Monograph No 166: Nature and Extent of Environmental Crime in Kenya
· Enquete Sur La Criminalité à Bamako Conduite
· Trends, Impact and Policy Development on HIV/AIDS and African Armed Forces Conference Proceedings
· The State’s Response to Crime and Public Security in South Africa
· Policing in South Africa in 2007, Key Issues and Developments, Compiled by Bilkis Omar, 31 October – 1 November 2007
International Crisis Group
· Bangladesh: Getting Police Reform on Track
· Somaliland: A Way out of the Electoral Crisis
· Southern Thailand: Moving towards Political Solutions?
International Relations and Security Network
· Cocaine Trade Finds West Africa Window
· Costs of War: The Somalia Inheritance
· For Now, Peace in Sierra Leone
· Mexican Cartels Recruit Texan Teens
· Re-arrests Hope to Prove Bosnia Terror Plots
· Turkey and Israel: Ends and Beginnings
· Yemen's Dangerous Escalation
Information Sharing Environment (ISE)
· ITACG Intelligence Guide for First Responders
· Report on the Interagency Threat Assessment and Coordination Group Second Report for the Congress of the United States, The Secretary of Homeland Security, the Attorney General, and the Director of National Intelligence
Internet Security Alliance (ISA)
· Implementing the Obama Cyber Security Strategy via the ISA Social Contract Model
Lowry Institute
· Obama’s Surge: The United States, Australia and the Second War for Afghanistan
MIT Press
· Innovations, Fall 2009, v. 4, no. 4
o Energy for Change: Creating Climate Solutions [special issue] available for free articles include:
o Assurance of Supply: A New Framework for Nuclear Energy
o Enabling a Nuclear Revival—and Managing Its Risks
o Responsible Expansion of Nuclear Power Requires Global Cooperation on Spent-Fuel Management
o The World Institute for Nuclear Security: Filling a Gap in the Global Nuclear Security Regime
National Nuclear Security Administration
· Radiological Survey of Downtown Washington DC for the 2009 Presidential Inauguration
National Security Archive
· Kennedy Considered Supporting Coup in South Vietnam, August 1963
· Operación México: Programa Argentino de Rendición Extraordinaria Revelado por Documentos Desclasificados
· Thirtieth Anniversary of NATO's Dual-Track Decision: The Road to the Euromissiles Crisis and the End of the Cold War
Pakistan Security Research Unit, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford
· A Review of AfPak and the Ongoing Challenge of Pakistan
· At the Precipice: Is Pakistan About to Fail?
· Insurrection, Terrorism, and the Pakistan Army
· Public Perceptions of Pakistan’s War Against the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan
Peterson Institute for International Economics
· Reconciling Climate Change and Trade Policy
Pew Research Center
· The Millennials
Population Reference Bureau
· The Fight Against 'Honor Killings': Interview With Investigative Journalist Rana Husseini
Rand
· Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Use by Adults in the U.S.: A Snapshot as of Mid-November 2009
· Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Use by Adults in the U.S.: Detailed Survey Tables, Mid-November 2009
· Understanding the Role of Deterrence in Counterterrorism Security
Small Wars Journal
· Domestic Radical Islamic Insurgency
· Needed: An Exorcism in Kandahar
Strategic Studies Institute
· Learning From Security Sector Reform/Building in Afghanistan (Oct 2002 – Sept 2003)
Transnational Institute
· Redefining Targets: Towards a Realistic Afghan Drug Control Strategy
Transparency International
· Global Corruption Report 2009 : Corruption and the Private Sector
United Nations Foundation
· New Technologies in Emergencies and Conflicts: The Role of Information and Social Networks
US Air Force
· Air Force Energy Plan 2010
· Plan Appendices
o Air Force Acquisition & Technology Energy Plan 2010
o Air Force Aviation Operations Energy Plan 2010
o Air Force Infrastructure Energy Plan 2010
o Related information and video
US Army Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School
· Domestic Operational Law Handbook for Judge Advocates
US Institute of Peace (USIP)
· Online Discourse in the Arab World
· What Next for the Democratic Republic of Congo?
US Marine Corps
· U.S. Marine Corps S&T Strategic Plan: Leading Edge Technology for the Marines of Tomorrow
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
· Contending with the PKK's Narco-Terrorism
· Reforming the Rogue: Lessons from the U.S.-Libyan Rapprochement
· Saudi Royals Reunited? Crown Prince Sultan Returns Home
· Sulaiman Meets Obama as Washington's Lebanese Allies Face Crisis at Home
· A Victory for Islamism? The Second Lebanon War and Its Repercussions
White House
· National Strategy for Countering Biological Threats
· President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize speech
World Bank Group
· Doing Business in the Arab World 2010
World Public Opinion.org
· World Publics on International Cooperation
Task Force report on Controlled Unclassified Information
The Presidential Task Force on Controlled Unclassified Information released its report - "Report and Recommendations of the Presidential Task Force on Controlled Unclassified Information"
From the DHS press release --
"Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano and Attorney General Eric Holder today announced two major steps in their efforts to implement reforms to enhance information sharing among federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies and safeguard sensitive information used by the government—designed to expand joint capabilities to protect the United States from terrorist activity, violent crime and other threats to the homeland.
The Presidential Interagency Task Force on Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), led by Secretary Napolitano and Attorney General Holder, today released a report recommending a single, standardized framework for marking, safeguarding and disseminating sensitive but unclassified (SBU) information across the federal government. SBU information refers collectively to the various designations for documents and information that are sufficiently sensitive to warrant some level of protection but that do not meet the standards for classification."
From the DHS press release --
"Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano and Attorney General Eric Holder today announced two major steps in their efforts to implement reforms to enhance information sharing among federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies and safeguard sensitive information used by the government—designed to expand joint capabilities to protect the United States from terrorist activity, violent crime and other threats to the homeland.
The Presidential Interagency Task Force on Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), led by Secretary Napolitano and Attorney General Holder, today released a report recommending a single, standardized framework for marking, safeguarding and disseminating sensitive but unclassified (SBU) information across the federal government. SBU information refers collectively to the various designations for documents and information that are sufficiently sensitive to warrant some level of protection but that do not meet the standards for classification."
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
National Strategy for Countering Biological Threats
Just released from the White House today
National Strategy for Countering Biological Threats
press release info
From the press release:
"This strategy outlines the President's vision for addressing the challenges from proliferation of biological weapons or their use by terrorists. It highlights the beneficial nature of advances in the life sciences and their importance in combating infectious diseases of natural, accidental, and deliberate origin. It also outlines how the risks associated with misuse and potential consequences of a biological attack require tailored actions to prevent biological threats….
• Promote global health security: Increase the availability of and access to knowledge and products of the life sciences that can help reduce the impact from outbreaks of infectious disease whether of natural, accidental, or deliberate origin.
• Reinforce norms of safe and responsible conduct: Reinforce a culture of responsibility, awareness, and vigilance among all who utilize and benefit from the life sciences to ensure that they are not diverted to harmful purpose.
• Obtain timely and accurate insight on current and emerging risks: Improve threat identification, notification, and assessment capabilities as well as our understanding as to the global progress and distribution of the life sciences to help identify and understand new and emerging challenges and inform appropriate actions to manage the evolving risk.
• Take reasonable steps to reduce the potential for exploitation: Identify, sensitize, support, and otherwise safeguard knowledge and capabilities in the life sciences and related communities that could be vulnerable to misuse.
• Expand our capability to prevent, attribute, and apprehend: Further hone our abilities to identify and stop those with ill intent to reduce the risk of single, multiple, or sequential attacks.
• Communicate effectively with all stakeholders: Ensure the United States Government is advancing cogent, coherent, and coordinated messages.
• Transform the international dialogue on biological threats: Promote a robust and sustained discussion among all nations as to the evolving biological threat and identify mutually agreed steps to counter it.
National Strategy for Countering Biological Threats
press release info
From the press release:
"This strategy outlines the President's vision for addressing the challenges from proliferation of biological weapons or their use by terrorists. It highlights the beneficial nature of advances in the life sciences and their importance in combating infectious diseases of natural, accidental, and deliberate origin. It also outlines how the risks associated with misuse and potential consequences of a biological attack require tailored actions to prevent biological threats….
• Promote global health security: Increase the availability of and access to knowledge and products of the life sciences that can help reduce the impact from outbreaks of infectious disease whether of natural, accidental, or deliberate origin.
• Reinforce norms of safe and responsible conduct: Reinforce a culture of responsibility, awareness, and vigilance among all who utilize and benefit from the life sciences to ensure that they are not diverted to harmful purpose.
• Obtain timely and accurate insight on current and emerging risks: Improve threat identification, notification, and assessment capabilities as well as our understanding as to the global progress and distribution of the life sciences to help identify and understand new and emerging challenges and inform appropriate actions to manage the evolving risk.
• Take reasonable steps to reduce the potential for exploitation: Identify, sensitize, support, and otherwise safeguard knowledge and capabilities in the life sciences and related communities that could be vulnerable to misuse.
• Expand our capability to prevent, attribute, and apprehend: Further hone our abilities to identify and stop those with ill intent to reduce the risk of single, multiple, or sequential attacks.
• Communicate effectively with all stakeholders: Ensure the United States Government is advancing cogent, coherent, and coordinated messages.
• Transform the international dialogue on biological threats: Promote a robust and sustained discussion among all nations as to the evolving biological threat and identify mutually agreed steps to counter it.
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Friday's Miscellany 12-04-2009
Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)
· Losing Legitimacy? Some Afghan Views on the Government, the International Community, and the 2009 Elections
Air University
· Strategic Studies Quarterly, Winter 2009, v. 3, no. 4
o Obama's "Eisenhower Moment:" American Strategic Choices and the Transatlantic Defense Relationship
o The Logic of the Nuclear Arsenal
o Pakistan’s Stability/Instability Complex: The Politics and Reverberations of the 2007 November Emergency
o When Is Deterrence Necessary? Gauging Adversary Intent
o “Harmonious Society:” Rise of the New China
o France’s New NATO Policy: Leveraging a Realignment of the Alliance?
o Asymmetric Interdependence: Do America and Europe Need Each Other?
o U.S. Interventions Abroad: A Renaissance of the Powell Doctrine?
American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)
· AICGS Advisor, December 2009
o Afghanistan - Of Tribes and Allies for a Political Strategy
o Alliances and Aspirations for Afghanistan
Atlantic Council
· Shoulder to Shoulder: Forging a Strategic US-EU Partnership
Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)
· Cyber security: Threats and Responses in the Information Age
· Information Sharing in Australia's National Security Community
Bread for the World
· 2010 Hunger Report http://www.hungerreport.org/2010/
Brookings
· Afghanistan Index
· Afghanistan: How Long Until We Know?
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
· The Afghanistan Decision
CATO
· Made on Earth: How Global Economic Integration Renders Trade Policy Obsolete
Center for a New American Security (CNAS)
· Afghanistan Strategy on Stage: Five Key Questions for the Administration
· Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan
Center for Nonproliferation Studies
· Nuclear Disarmament Proposals from 1995 to 2009: A Comparative Chart
· Comparative Chart
Center for Security Policy
· One Year of Jihad in America
Center for Security Studies (CSS)
· No. 63: "Swiss Civilian Peace Support: Potential and Limitations"
· No. 64: "British Defence Policy at a Crossroads: East of Suez Revisited?"
Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)
· Estimating Funding for Afghanistan
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
· The Afghan "Surge": Beginning, Middle, or End?
· Homebound Security: Migrant Support for Improved Public Safety in Conflict-Prone Settings
· Obama’s New Strategy in Afghanistan [commentary by Anthony Cordesman]
· "Shape, Clear, Hold, and Build:" The Uncertain Metrics of the Afghan War
· Trafficking in the Mesoamerican Corridor
Center for Strategic Leadership
· Bullets and Blogs: New Media and the Warfighter
Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
· Security Sector Reform Monitor: Burundi, No. 1
· Security Sector Reform Monitor: Haiti, No. 3
· Security Sector Reform Monitor: Southern Sudan, No. 1
Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)
· Deadly Vanguards: A Study of al‐Qa'ida's Violence Against Muslims
Congress. House. Armed Services Committee
· Hearings
o Afghanistan: The Results of the Strategic Review, Part I [December 3, 2009]
o Assessing the Guam War Claims Process [December 2, 2009]
o New Walter Reed: Are We on the Right Track? [December 2, 2009]
Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee
· BRIEFING - Sudan: A Review of the Administration’s New Policy and A Situation Update
· HEARING - Sudan: A Review of the Administration’s New Policy and A Situation Update
· U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan
Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee
· The United States Secret Service and Presidential Protection: An Examination of a System Failure
Congress. House. Oversight and Government Reform
· Post-Katrina Recovery: Restoring Health Care in the New Orleans Region
Congress. Senate. Armed Services Committee
· To Receive testimony on Afghanistan
o December 2, 2009
o December 8, 2009
Congress. Senate. Commerce, Science & Transportation
· Aviation Safety: Pilot Fatigue
· Transportation Security Challenges Post-9/11
Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee
· Afghanistan: Assessing the Road Ahead
· Tora Bora Revisited: How We Failed to Get Bin Laden and Why It Matters Today
Congress. Senate. Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee
· Disaster Case Management: Developing a Comprehensive National Program Focused on Outcomes · Nomination of Caryn A. Wagner to be Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Constitution Project
· Recommendations for Reforming our Immigration Detention System and Promoting Access to Counsel in Immigration Proceedings
Coremetrics
· Coremetrics Benchmark Cyber Monday Report 2009 http://www.coremetrics.com/downloads/benchmark-2009-cyber-monday.pdf
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
· Status of Muslim Civil Rights in the United States 2009: Seeking Full Inclusion
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
· Assessing the Afghan Surge
· Avoiding Elections at Any Cost in Iraq
Crisis States Research Centre
· The City as Frontier: Urban Development and Identity Processes in Goma
· Civil Society in Conflict Cities: The Case of Ahmedabad
· The Eye of the Storm: Cities in the Vortex of Afghanistan's Civil Wars
· Peacemaking in the Midst of War: An Assessment of IGAD's Contribution to Regional Security
· The Quandaries of Coding and Ranking: Evaluating Poor State Performance Indexes
· Urban Politics, Conspiracy and Reform in Nampula, Mozambique
Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)
· D-2010-021 Using System Threat Assessments in the Acquisition of Tactical Wheeled Vehicles, November 23, 2009
Department of Homeland Security Inspector General
· OIG-10-16 - Major Management Challenges Facing the Department of Homeland Security
· OIG-10-15 - Information Sharing at the National Operations Center (Redacted)
· OIG-10-13 - Immigration and Customs Enforcement Policies and Procedures Related to Detainee Transfers
· OIG-10-10 - DHS Contracts With Low Wage Payments
· OIG-10-09 - Security of Air Cargo During Ground Transportation (Redacted)
· OIG-10-07 - Review of United States Coast Guard's Certification of Maritime Awareness Global Network (MAGNET) (Unclassified Summary)
Elcano Royal Institute
· Countering Terrorism and Building Cooperation in North Africa: The Potential Significance of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy
Energy Information Administration (EIA)
· Country Analysis Brief: Qatar
· Country Analysis Brief: Saudi Arabia
· Country Analysis Brief: United Arab Emirates
European Union Institute for Security Studies
· Chaillot Paper N° 119: Back from the Cold? The EU and Belarus in 2009
· Post-2011 Scenarios in Sudan: What Role for the EU?
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
· 2009 Report on U.S. Ethanol Market Concentration
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· Chemical Regulation: Observations on Improving the Toxic Substances Control Act, GAO-10-292T [testimony]
· Commercial Space Transportation: Development of the Commercial Space Launch Industry Presents Safety Oversight Challenges for FAA and Raises Issues Affecting Federal Roles, GAO-10-286T [testimony] · Disaster Assistance: Improvements in Providing Federal Disaster Case Management Services Could Help Agencies Better Assist Victims, GAO-10-278T [testimony]
· Homeland Security: DHS's Progress and Challenges in Key Areas of Maritime, Aviation, and Cybersecurity, GAO-10-106
· Hurricane Katrina: Federal Grants Have Helped Health Care Organizations Provide Primary Care, but Sustaining Services Will Be a Challenge, GAO-10-273T [testimony]
· Nuclear Waste Management: Key Attributes, Challenges, and Costs for the Yucca Mountain Repository and Two Potential Alternatives, GAO-10-48
· Public Safety Officers' Benefits Program: Performance Measurement Would Strengthen Accountability and Enhance Awareness among Potential Claimants, GAO-10-5
· Recovery Act: Contract Oversight Activities of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board and Observations on Contract Spending in Selected States, GAO-10-216R
· Status of Funds for the Merida Initiative, GAO-10-253R
· Supply Chain Security: Feasibility and Cost-Benefit Analysis Would Assist DHS and Congress in Assessing and Implementing the Requirement to Scan 100 Percent of U.S.-Bound Containers, GAO-10-12
Heritage Foundation
· America Should Follow Through with Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Negotiations
· NATO Allies in Europe Must Do More in Afghanistan
· Opportunity at Copenhagen -- Nations Should Promote Free Trade at the Climate Conference
· President Obama's Afghanistan Speech: An Uncertain Message
· Robotics and the Next Steps for National Security
· START Follow-On Treaty: Balance Arms Control with Nuclear Modernization Progress
· To Control National Debt, Congress Needs to Tackle Entitlements
· U.S. Dabbles in Trade Protectionism, China Wallows
· U.S. Should Endorse Honduras Elections Results
· U.S. Should Reject Illegitimate Election Process in Bolivia
Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses
· From FATA to South Punjab: The Looming Leap of Islamic Radicalism in Pakistan
Institute of South Asian Studies
· The Talibanisation of Pakistan's Western Region
Institute for the Study of War
· The Taliban's Campaign for Kandahar
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
· Pakistan: Millions of IDPs and Returnees Face Continuing Crisis
· pdf version
Internet Security Alliance
· Implementing the Obama Cyber Security Strategy via the ISA Social Contract Model
International Crisis Group
· Handing Back Responsibility to Timor-Leste's Police
International Relations and Security Network
· Assessing Somalia’s Terror Threat
· Costs of War: Tora Bora Backdraft
· Honor Killing: India's Continuing Shame
· Russia Bombing Highlights Security Failure
· Somalia’s Kool-Aid Syndrome
· Swiss Minaret Ban Sends Ripples Worldwide
· Tajik-Uzbek Resource Battle Intensifies
· What Afghans Think About the Surge
Jamestown Foundation
· China Brief, v. 9, no. 24, December 3, 2009
o Hu Jintao Unveils Major Foreign-Policy Initiative
o Libya Cautions China: Economics Is No Substitute to Politics
o Taiwan and the Changing Strategic Balance in the East China Sea
o Priorities and Challenges in China's Naval Deployment in the Horn of Africa
· Terrorism Monitor, v. 7, no. 37, December 3, 2009
o American Jihad: New Details Emerge About al-Shabaab Recruitment in North America
o New Strategies in Pakistan's Counter-Insurgency Operation in South Waziristan
o PKK Leader Abdullah Ocalan Challenges Omission from Peace Initiative from His Prison Cell
o Separatists, Islamists and Islamabad Struggle for Control of Pakistani Balochistan
Lowy Institute for International Policy
· China and the World: Public Opinion and Foreign Policy
· The Mekong: River Under Threat
· Victim of Success: China’s Growth and Environmental Consequences
National Academies Press
· The National Emergency Care Enterprise:Advancing Care Through Collaboration: Workshop Summary [free download - registration required]
National Security Archive
· Bush and Gorbachev at Malta
· Jacobo Timerman hizo Tambalear a la Dictadura Argentina
· Operation Sofia: Documenting Genocide in Guatemala
Pew Global Attitudes Project
· Negative Views of U.S. Unchanged in Turkey: But Some Signs of Improvement
Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
· U.S. Seen as Less Important, China as More Powerful
· Complete report
PNC Financial Services Group
· The 2009 PNC Christmas Price Index
RAND
· Analysis of the Air Force Logistics Enterprise: Evaluation of Global Repair Network Options for Supporting the F-16 and KC-135
Small Wars Journal
· Overdue Bill: Integrating Counterinsurgency into Army Professional Education
· Why Buy Something We Hate?: Subsidize Other Crops, Not Poppy
Southwest Asia Joint Planning Group
· Comprehensive Oversight Plan Afghanistan-Pakistan Fourth Quarter Fiscal Year 2009 through Fiscal Year 2010
Steven Pressfield Blog
· "A Strategy for Success in Afghanistan: One Tribe at a Time" by Major Jim Grant (US Army Special Forces)
· Blog exchanges between the author and others
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
· China’s Expanding Role in Peacekeeping
· North Korea’s Nuclear Test Explosion, 2009
U.S. Army
· Field Manual (FM 3-23.30) Grenades and Pyrotechnic Signals
U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) Human Terrain System
· My Cousin’s Enemy is My Friend—A Study of Pashtun ‘Tribes’ in Afghanistan
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
· Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Program
U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP)
· North Korea’s Currency Revaluation: A Tipping Point?
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
· Joint Pub 1-05 Religious Affairs in Joint Operations
· Joint Pub 3-06 Joint Urban Operations
· Joint Pub 3-26 Counterterrorism
U.S. Marine Corps
· Marine Corps Order (MCO 5400.53) Marine Corps Space Policy
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
· Mr. Erdogan Visits Washington: The AKP's Foreign Policy and United States Interests
White House
· President Obama's Speech - The Way Forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan
o Text
o Video
World Bank
· World Development Report 2010 - Public Attitudes Toward Climate Change: Findings from a Multi-Country Poll
· Losing Legitimacy? Some Afghan Views on the Government, the International Community, and the 2009 Elections
Air University
· Strategic Studies Quarterly, Winter 2009, v. 3, no. 4
o Obama's "Eisenhower Moment:" American Strategic Choices and the Transatlantic Defense Relationship
o The Logic of the Nuclear Arsenal
o Pakistan’s Stability/Instability Complex: The Politics and Reverberations of the 2007 November Emergency
o When Is Deterrence Necessary? Gauging Adversary Intent
o “Harmonious Society:” Rise of the New China
o France’s New NATO Policy: Leveraging a Realignment of the Alliance?
o Asymmetric Interdependence: Do America and Europe Need Each Other?
o U.S. Interventions Abroad: A Renaissance of the Powell Doctrine?
American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)
· AICGS Advisor, December 2009
o Afghanistan - Of Tribes and Allies for a Political Strategy
o Alliances and Aspirations for Afghanistan
Atlantic Council
· Shoulder to Shoulder: Forging a Strategic US-EU Partnership
Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)
· Cyber security: Threats and Responses in the Information Age
· Information Sharing in Australia's National Security Community
Bread for the World
· 2010 Hunger Report http://www.hungerreport.org/2010/
Brookings
· Afghanistan Index
· Afghanistan: How Long Until We Know?
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
· The Afghanistan Decision
CATO
· Made on Earth: How Global Economic Integration Renders Trade Policy Obsolete
Center for a New American Security (CNAS)
· Afghanistan Strategy on Stage: Five Key Questions for the Administration
· Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan
Center for Nonproliferation Studies
· Nuclear Disarmament Proposals from 1995 to 2009: A Comparative Chart
· Comparative Chart
Center for Security Policy
· One Year of Jihad in America
Center for Security Studies (CSS)
· No. 63: "Swiss Civilian Peace Support: Potential and Limitations"
· No. 64: "British Defence Policy at a Crossroads: East of Suez Revisited?"
Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)
· Estimating Funding for Afghanistan
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
· The Afghan "Surge": Beginning, Middle, or End?
· Homebound Security: Migrant Support for Improved Public Safety in Conflict-Prone Settings
· Obama’s New Strategy in Afghanistan [commentary by Anthony Cordesman]
· "Shape, Clear, Hold, and Build:" The Uncertain Metrics of the Afghan War
· Trafficking in the Mesoamerican Corridor
Center for Strategic Leadership
· Bullets and Blogs: New Media and the Warfighter
Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
· Security Sector Reform Monitor: Burundi, No. 1
· Security Sector Reform Monitor: Haiti, No. 3
· Security Sector Reform Monitor: Southern Sudan, No. 1
Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)
· Deadly Vanguards: A Study of al‐Qa'ida's Violence Against Muslims
Congress. House. Armed Services Committee
· Hearings
o Afghanistan: The Results of the Strategic Review, Part I [December 3, 2009]
o Assessing the Guam War Claims Process [December 2, 2009]
o New Walter Reed: Are We on the Right Track? [December 2, 2009]
Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee
· BRIEFING - Sudan: A Review of the Administration’s New Policy and A Situation Update
· HEARING - Sudan: A Review of the Administration’s New Policy and A Situation Update
· U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan
Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee
· The United States Secret Service and Presidential Protection: An Examination of a System Failure
Congress. House. Oversight and Government Reform
· Post-Katrina Recovery: Restoring Health Care in the New Orleans Region
Congress. Senate. Armed Services Committee
· To Receive testimony on Afghanistan
o December 2, 2009
o December 8, 2009
Congress. Senate. Commerce, Science & Transportation
· Aviation Safety: Pilot Fatigue
· Transportation Security Challenges Post-9/11
Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee
· Afghanistan: Assessing the Road Ahead
· Tora Bora Revisited: How We Failed to Get Bin Laden and Why It Matters Today
Congress. Senate. Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee
· Disaster Case Management: Developing a Comprehensive National Program Focused on Outcomes · Nomination of Caryn A. Wagner to be Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Constitution Project
· Recommendations for Reforming our Immigration Detention System and Promoting Access to Counsel in Immigration Proceedings
Coremetrics
· Coremetrics Benchmark Cyber Monday Report 2009 http://www.coremetrics.com/downloads/benchmark-2009-cyber-monday.pdf
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
· Status of Muslim Civil Rights in the United States 2009: Seeking Full Inclusion
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
· Assessing the Afghan Surge
· Avoiding Elections at Any Cost in Iraq
Crisis States Research Centre
· The City as Frontier: Urban Development and Identity Processes in Goma
· Civil Society in Conflict Cities: The Case of Ahmedabad
· The Eye of the Storm: Cities in the Vortex of Afghanistan's Civil Wars
· Peacemaking in the Midst of War: An Assessment of IGAD's Contribution to Regional Security
· The Quandaries of Coding and Ranking: Evaluating Poor State Performance Indexes
· Urban Politics, Conspiracy and Reform in Nampula, Mozambique
Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)
· D-2010-021 Using System Threat Assessments in the Acquisition of Tactical Wheeled Vehicles, November 23, 2009
Department of Homeland Security Inspector General
· OIG-10-16 - Major Management Challenges Facing the Department of Homeland Security
· OIG-10-15 - Information Sharing at the National Operations Center (Redacted)
· OIG-10-13 - Immigration and Customs Enforcement Policies and Procedures Related to Detainee Transfers
· OIG-10-10 - DHS Contracts With Low Wage Payments
· OIG-10-09 - Security of Air Cargo During Ground Transportation (Redacted)
· OIG-10-07 - Review of United States Coast Guard's Certification of Maritime Awareness Global Network (MAGNET) (Unclassified Summary)
Elcano Royal Institute
· Countering Terrorism and Building Cooperation in North Africa: The Potential Significance of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy
Energy Information Administration (EIA)
· Country Analysis Brief: Qatar
· Country Analysis Brief: Saudi Arabia
· Country Analysis Brief: United Arab Emirates
European Union Institute for Security Studies
· Chaillot Paper N° 119: Back from the Cold? The EU and Belarus in 2009
· Post-2011 Scenarios in Sudan: What Role for the EU?
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
· 2009 Report on U.S. Ethanol Market Concentration
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· Chemical Regulation: Observations on Improving the Toxic Substances Control Act, GAO-10-292T [testimony]
· Commercial Space Transportation: Development of the Commercial Space Launch Industry Presents Safety Oversight Challenges for FAA and Raises Issues Affecting Federal Roles, GAO-10-286T [testimony] · Disaster Assistance: Improvements in Providing Federal Disaster Case Management Services Could Help Agencies Better Assist Victims, GAO-10-278T [testimony]
· Homeland Security: DHS's Progress and Challenges in Key Areas of Maritime, Aviation, and Cybersecurity, GAO-10-106
· Hurricane Katrina: Federal Grants Have Helped Health Care Organizations Provide Primary Care, but Sustaining Services Will Be a Challenge, GAO-10-273T [testimony]
· Nuclear Waste Management: Key Attributes, Challenges, and Costs for the Yucca Mountain Repository and Two Potential Alternatives, GAO-10-48
· Public Safety Officers' Benefits Program: Performance Measurement Would Strengthen Accountability and Enhance Awareness among Potential Claimants, GAO-10-5
· Recovery Act: Contract Oversight Activities of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board and Observations on Contract Spending in Selected States, GAO-10-216R
· Status of Funds for the Merida Initiative, GAO-10-253R
· Supply Chain Security: Feasibility and Cost-Benefit Analysis Would Assist DHS and Congress in Assessing and Implementing the Requirement to Scan 100 Percent of U.S.-Bound Containers, GAO-10-12
Heritage Foundation
· America Should Follow Through with Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Negotiations
· NATO Allies in Europe Must Do More in Afghanistan
· Opportunity at Copenhagen -- Nations Should Promote Free Trade at the Climate Conference
· President Obama's Afghanistan Speech: An Uncertain Message
· Robotics and the Next Steps for National Security
· START Follow-On Treaty: Balance Arms Control with Nuclear Modernization Progress
· To Control National Debt, Congress Needs to Tackle Entitlements
· U.S. Dabbles in Trade Protectionism, China Wallows
· U.S. Should Endorse Honduras Elections Results
· U.S. Should Reject Illegitimate Election Process in Bolivia
Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses
· From FATA to South Punjab: The Looming Leap of Islamic Radicalism in Pakistan
Institute of South Asian Studies
· The Talibanisation of Pakistan's Western Region
Institute for the Study of War
· The Taliban's Campaign for Kandahar
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
· Pakistan: Millions of IDPs and Returnees Face Continuing Crisis
· pdf version
Internet Security Alliance
· Implementing the Obama Cyber Security Strategy via the ISA Social Contract Model
International Crisis Group
· Handing Back Responsibility to Timor-Leste's Police
International Relations and Security Network
· Assessing Somalia’s Terror Threat
· Costs of War: Tora Bora Backdraft
· Honor Killing: India's Continuing Shame
· Russia Bombing Highlights Security Failure
· Somalia’s Kool-Aid Syndrome
· Swiss Minaret Ban Sends Ripples Worldwide
· Tajik-Uzbek Resource Battle Intensifies
· What Afghans Think About the Surge
Jamestown Foundation
· China Brief, v. 9, no. 24, December 3, 2009
o Hu Jintao Unveils Major Foreign-Policy Initiative
o Libya Cautions China: Economics Is No Substitute to Politics
o Taiwan and the Changing Strategic Balance in the East China Sea
o Priorities and Challenges in China's Naval Deployment in the Horn of Africa
· Terrorism Monitor, v. 7, no. 37, December 3, 2009
o American Jihad: New Details Emerge About al-Shabaab Recruitment in North America
o New Strategies in Pakistan's Counter-Insurgency Operation in South Waziristan
o PKK Leader Abdullah Ocalan Challenges Omission from Peace Initiative from His Prison Cell
o Separatists, Islamists and Islamabad Struggle for Control of Pakistani Balochistan
Lowy Institute for International Policy
· China and the World: Public Opinion and Foreign Policy
· The Mekong: River Under Threat
· Victim of Success: China’s Growth and Environmental Consequences
National Academies Press
· The National Emergency Care Enterprise:Advancing Care Through Collaboration: Workshop Summary [free download - registration required]
National Security Archive
· Bush and Gorbachev at Malta
· Jacobo Timerman hizo Tambalear a la Dictadura Argentina
· Operation Sofia: Documenting Genocide in Guatemala
Pew Global Attitudes Project
· Negative Views of U.S. Unchanged in Turkey: But Some Signs of Improvement
Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
· U.S. Seen as Less Important, China as More Powerful
· Complete report
PNC Financial Services Group
· The 2009 PNC Christmas Price Index
RAND
· Analysis of the Air Force Logistics Enterprise: Evaluation of Global Repair Network Options for Supporting the F-16 and KC-135
Small Wars Journal
· Overdue Bill: Integrating Counterinsurgency into Army Professional Education
· Why Buy Something We Hate?: Subsidize Other Crops, Not Poppy
Southwest Asia Joint Planning Group
· Comprehensive Oversight Plan Afghanistan-Pakistan Fourth Quarter Fiscal Year 2009 through Fiscal Year 2010
Steven Pressfield Blog
· "A Strategy for Success in Afghanistan: One Tribe at a Time" by Major Jim Grant (US Army Special Forces)
· Blog exchanges between the author and others
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
· China’s Expanding Role in Peacekeeping
· North Korea’s Nuclear Test Explosion, 2009
U.S. Army
· Field Manual (FM 3-23.30) Grenades and Pyrotechnic Signals
U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) Human Terrain System
· My Cousin’s Enemy is My Friend—A Study of Pashtun ‘Tribes’ in Afghanistan
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
· Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Program
U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP)
· North Korea’s Currency Revaluation: A Tipping Point?
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
· Joint Pub 1-05 Religious Affairs in Joint Operations
· Joint Pub 3-06 Joint Urban Operations
· Joint Pub 3-26 Counterterrorism
U.S. Marine Corps
· Marine Corps Order (MCO 5400.53) Marine Corps Space Policy
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
· Mr. Erdogan Visits Washington: The AKP's Foreign Policy and United States Interests
White House
· President Obama's Speech - The Way Forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan
o Text
o Video
World Bank
· World Development Report 2010 - Public Attitudes Toward Climate Change: Findings from a Multi-Country Poll
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Friday's Miscellany 11-25-2009
Afghanistan Watch
· International Criminal Court (ICC) in Afghanistan
Air University
· Air & Space Power Journal, Fall 2009, v. 23, no. 3
o Cyberspace Leadership: Towards New Culture, Conduct, and Capabilities
o Air-Mindedness: Confessions of an Airpower Advocate
o A Perfect Storm over Nuclear Weapons
o Modern Air Power and the 1916 Arab Revolt: What Can the Modern Airman Do to Counter Lawrence of Arabia?
o Recent US and Chinese Antisatellite Activities
o Team Spirit: A Case Study on the Value of Military Exercises as a Show of Force in the Aftermath of Combat Operations
o Deterrence and Space-Based Missile Defense
o Damage Control: Leveraging Crisis Communications for Operational Effect
o Recruiting for 2030: Is the US Air Force Getting the Recruits It Needs for the Future?
o Modern Air Power and the 1916 Arab Revolt: What Can the Modern Airman Do to Counter Lawrence of Arabia?
o KC-X: The Game Changer for Mobility
o Efficiently Exploiting the Power of C4ISR by Optimally Organizing and Training the Producers of Combat Support Effects
o Airpower Security Cooperation as an Instrument of National Power: Lessons for Iraq from the Cases of Pakistan and Egypt
Army Combined Arms Center
· Military Review, November-December 2009, v. 89, no. 6
o Refighting the Last War: Afghanistan and the Vietnam Template by Thomas H. Johnson, M. Chris Mason
o Conscription, the Republic, and America’s Future by Adrian R. Lewis, Ph.D.
o Transformation and the Irregular Gap by Major Kenneth J. Burgess, U.S. Army
o Breaking Tactical Fixation: The Division’s Role by Brigadier General Alan Batschelet, U.S. Army, Lieutenant Colonel Mike Runey, U.S. Army, Lieutenant Colonel Gregory Meyer Jr., U.S. Army
o MiTT Advisor: A Year with the Best Division in the Iraqi Army by Colonel Timothy Deady, U.S. Army Reserve, Retired
o Russia’s Military Performance in Georgia by Tor Bukkvoll, Ph.D., Norway
o Revolutionary Management: The Role of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias in the Cuban Economy by Terry L. Maris, Ph.D.
o Competency vs. Character? It Must Be Both! by Lieutenant Colonel Joe Doty, U.S. Army, Ph.D., Major Walt Sowden, U.S. Army
o Developing Creative and Critical Thinkers by Colonel Charles D. Allen, U.S. Army, Retired, Colonel Stephen J. Gerras, Ph.D., U.S. Army, Retired
o Empathy: A True Leader Skill by Lieutenant Colonel Harry C. Garner, U.S. Army, Retired
o Emotional Intelligence and the Army Leadership Requirements Model by Lieutenant Colonel Gerald F. Sewell, U.S. Army, Retired
o The Mentorship Dilemma Continues by Major Edward Cox, U.S. Army
o Getting Off the Treadmill of Time by Colonel Chris Robertson, U.S. Army, Lieutenant Colonel Sophie Gainey, U.S. Army
o "Below-the-Zone" and Command Selection by Major Vylius M. Leskys, U.S. Army
o Army Chaplains: Leading from the Middle by Chaplain (Colonel) F. Eric Wester, U.S. Army
Army War College
· Parameters, Autumn 2009, v. 39, no. 3
o A Strategy of Tactics: Population-centric COIN and the Army by Gian P. Gentile
o Beyond Population Engagement: Understanding Counterinsurgency by Heather S. Gregg
o Conventional Deterrence in the Second Nuclear Age by Michael S. Gerson
o Playing for the Breaks: Insurgent Mistakes by Lincoln B. Krause
o Filling Irregular Warfare’s Interagency Gaps by Lew Irwin
o The Defense Identity Crisis: It’s a Hybrid World by Nathan Freier
o To Stay a Soldier by Chuck Callahan
Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)
· We'll Have Six of Them and Four of Those: Off-the-Shelf Procurement and Its Strategic Implications
British Council Pakistan
· Pakistan: The Next Generation
Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)
· The Strategic Quagmire: Why Nation Building in Afghanistan is Failing
CARE Canada
· Knowledge on Fire: Attacks on Education in Afghanistan – Risks and Measures for Successful Mitigation
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
· Egyptian Nuclear Leadership—Time to Realign?
· Iraqi Vice President Rejects Election Law, Threatening January Vote
· Sharing the Pain: The Global Struggle Over Savings
Center for a New American Security
· On the Knife’s Edge: Yemen’s Instability and the Threat to American Interests
Center for American Progress
· Clean Energy for the Wild Blue Yonder: Expanding Renewable Energy and Efficiency in the Air Force
· The U.S.- India Strategic Partnership is Vital
Center for Security Studies (CSS)
· Focal Report 3: Critical Infrastructure Protection Cybersecurity – Recent Strategies and Policies: An Analysis
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
· The Afghan Strategy Checklist: How to Evaluate the Effectiveness and Credibility of a Defining Test of Obama's Leadership
· Engaging Regional Players in Afghanistan: Threats and Opportunities
· Making Gender a Global Health Priority
Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
· Security Sector Reform Monitor, Afghanistan, November 2009, no. 2
Centre for Social Cohesion’s (CSC)
· Hizb ut-Tahrir: Ideology and Strategy
Chatham House
· The EU and China: Time for a Change?
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
· The Costs of Reducing Greenhouse-Gas Emissions Economic and Budget Issue Brief
Council on Foreign Relations
· The United States in the New Asia
Deloitte
· Energy Security: America's Best Defense
Department of State
· Special Briefing on Secretary Clinton's Recent Trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan
Energy Information Administration (EIA)
· Country Analysis Brief: Caribbean
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
· Hate Crime Statistics, 2008
· Law Enforcement Bulletin, November 2009
o Police Training for the Whole Person
o Use of Force and Community Awareness
o Retiring from the “Thin Blue Line” (Part Two)
o Pole Cameras and Surreptitious Surveillance
o Traits of Leadership
Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
· Hu-Obama Summit and U.S.-China Relations
· Obama’s Foreign Policy at Ten Months: the Limits of Consensus
· What Afghans Want
· Winning the Wars We’re In
Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces
· Fighting the Pre-eminent Threats with Intelligence-led Operations
· Security Sector Reform in Challenging Environments [selected chapters available for download]
· Strategies Against Human Trafficking: The Role of the Security Sector
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· Homeland Security: Key US-VISIT Components at Varying Stages of Completion, but Integrated and Reliable Schedule Needed, GAO-10-13
· Nuclear Weapons: National Nuclear Security Administration Needs to Better Manage Risks Associated with Modernization of Its Kansas City Plant, GAO-10-115
· Recovery Act: Recipient Reported Jobs Data Provide Some Insight into Use of Recovery Act Funding, but Data Quality and Reporting Issues Need Attention, GAO-10-223
Heritage Foundation
· Key Asian Indicators: A 2009 Book of Charts
· U.S.-India: An Enduring Partnership in Uncertain Times
Human Rights Watch
· Cruel Britannia: British Complicity in the Torture and Ill-treatment of Terror Suspects in Pakistan
· Group Denial: Repression of Kurdish Political and Cultural Rights in Syria
Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS)
· Joint Force Quarterly (JFQ), issue 56, 1st Quarter 2010
o Ambassadors to the World: A New Paradigm for Public Diplomacy and Strategic Communication by Robert D. Deutsch
o Public Engagement 101: What Strategic Communication Is, Isn’t, and Should Be by Kristin M. Lord
o “Strategic Communication” Is Vague: Say What You Mean by Christopher Paul
o Forum Executive Summary by David H. Gurney
o Afghanistan: Context and What’s Next by Volney F. Warner
o Winning Afghanistan at the Community Level: A Rejoinder to Volney F. Warner and “C” by Christopher D. Kolenda
o A Better War in Afghanistan by John A. Nagl
o Unified Effort: Key to Special Operations and Irregular Warfare in Afghanistan by Christopher J. Lamb and Martin Cinnamond
o Civil-Military Integration in Afghanistan: Creating Unity of Command by Joshua W. Welle
o Interview with Admiral Eric T. Olson, USN, Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command by David H. Gurney and Jeffrey D. Smotherman
o U.S. Special Operations: Context and Capabilities in Irregular Warfare by Eric T. Olson
o Countering Irregular Threats: The Army Special Operations Contribution by John F. Mulholland, Jr.
o Adapting Across the Spectrum of Conflict: The Role of Naval Special Warfare by Edward G. Winters
o Mastering the Art of the Possible: The Air Force Special Operations Command by Donald C. Wurster
o Forging Marine Special Operators by Mastin M. Robeson
o Legitimizing Army Psychological Operations by Alfred H. Paddock, Jr.
o The Business of War: The Impact of “PLA, Inc.” on Chinese Officers by Dean Cheng
o Israel and the Iranian Nuclear Infrastructure by Brent J. Talbot
o An Intelligent Theater by James G. Stavridis
o The Leavenworth Heresy and the Perversion of Operational Art by Justin Kelly and Michael J. Brennan
o Can the Army Become a Learning Organization? A Question Reexamined by Anthony J. DiBella
o Pay for Play: Countering Threat Financing by Michael T. Flynn and Simone A. Ledeen
o A Joint Staff to Believe In by G. John David and Paul S. Reinhart
o Global Insurgency: Myth Or Reality? Point/Counterpoint Introduction
o The Struggle Against Global Insurgency by Daniel G. Cox
o The Dangers of Mistaking Coherence for Capability by Michael W. Mosser
o Vice Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Leadership of the Joint Requirements Oversight Council by Richard M. Meinhart
o Unity of Command in the Pacific During World War II by Phillip S. Meilinger
o Wargaming the Flu by Margaret M. McCown
· U.S.-Cambodia Defense Relations: Defining New Possibilities
Institute for Security Studies
· ISS Paper 205: Political Violence in Kenya, A Study of Causes, Responses, and a Framework for Discussing Preventive Action
· ISS Paper 204: Confronting Complex Emergencies in Africa, Imperatives of a Search for a New Doctrine of Humanitarian ‘Security’ Interventions
· ISS Paper 203: The International Politics of Rape, Sex and the Family in Sierra Leone
· Another Crossroad for Burundi: From the FNL to Peaceful Elections in 2010
· Libya: A Critical Review of Tripoli’s Sub-Saharan African Policies, Amira Ibrahim
Institute for the Study of War
· President Hamid Karzai’s Second Inaugural Address
· The Taliban's Media Blitz
International Crisis Group
· Afghanistan: Elections and the Crisis of Governance
International Atomic Energy Administration (IAEA)
· Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
· Islamic Republic of Afghanistan: Afghanistan National Development Strategy: First Annual Report (2008/09)
International Peace Institute
· From Uganda to the Congo and Beyond: Pursuing the Lord's Resistance Army
International Relations and Security Network
· Costs of War: Fort Hood’s 9/11 Déjà Vu
· The Fog of Cyberwar
· The Future Is Ship Shape
· India’s Private Security Metamorphosis
· International Community Stuck in Bosnia
· Reforming the Afghan National Army
· Somalia Jumps on Private Security Bandwagon
Jamestown Foundation
· Terrorism Monitor, v, 7, no. 36, November 26, 2009
o Ibrahim al-Rubaish: New Religious Ideologue of al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia Calls for Revival of Assassination Tactic
o Al-Qaeda in Iraq Operations Suggest Rising Confidence Ahead of U.S. Military Withdrawal
o French Operation in Afghanistan Aims to Open New Coalition Supply Route
o Taliban Expand Insurgency to Northern Afghanistan
The Nation
· Blackwater's Secret War in Pakistan
National Academies Press
· Crisis Standards of Care: Summary of a Workshop Series [free download but registration required]
· Disposal of Legacy Nerve Agent GA and Lewisite Stocks at Deseret Chemical Depot Letter Report [free download but registration required]
· Ensuring the Integrity, Accessibility, and Stewardship of Research Data in the Digital Age
· Experimentation and Rapid Prototyping in Support of Counterterrorism [free download but registration required]
· Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2008 [free download but registration required]
National Academy of Science
· Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, November 24, 2009, v. 106, no. 47
o Warming increases the risk of civil war in Africa
National Bureau of Asian Research
· Managing Unmet Expectations in the U.S.-Japan Alliance
· Secure Land Rights as a Foundation for Broad-Based Rural Development in China: Results and Recommendations from a Seventeen-Province Survey
NATO Defense College
· Counterinsurgency: The Challenge for NATO Strategy and Operations
OECD
· Armed Violence Reduction: Enabling Development
Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)
· Iran's Naval Forces: From Guerilla (sic) Warfare to a Modern Naval Strategy http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/oni/iran-navy.pdf
OpenDoors Online
· Open Doors Report 2009: Report on International Educational Exchange
OpenSecurity
· The Afghan Anvil: Breaking the Indo-Pakistani Deadlock?
PAK Institute for Peace Studies
· Assessing the Reporting, Approach and Impact of Militants’ Print Media in Pakistan
· Profiling the Violence in Karachi
Peterson Institute for International Economics
· Capital Flows to Developing Countries: The Allocation Puzzle
Pew Research Center
· Polling Wars: Hawks vs. Doves
Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
· Where the Public Stands on Immigration Reform
Rand
· Air Force Officer Specialty Structure: Reviewing the Fundamentals
· Study of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Questions Assumptions Behind “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
· Understanding Commanders' Information Needs for Influence Operations
Small Wars Journal
· Afghanistan: Education and Literacy
· AFRICOM: Reconstruction and Stability Through the Provincial Reconstruction Team-Enhanced, Enabled by Unity of Command
· Reorganizing for Irregular Warfare
· The Myth of Hearts and Minds
Stanley Foundation
· Talking about Nuclear Weapons with the Persuadable Middle
Stimson Center
· The Indian Ocean: Resource and Governance Challenges
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
· The EU Non-Proliferation Clause: A Preliminary Assessment
Strategic Studies Institute
· Democratic Governance and the Rule of Law: Lessons from Colombia
· Leadership and National Security Reform Conference
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
· 2009 Patterns and Trends of Amphetamine-Type Stimulants and Other Drugs in East and South-East Asia (and Neighbouring Regions)
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
· State of the World’s Population 2009
World Public Opinion.org
· Majorities Reject Banning Defamation of Religion: 20 Nation Poll
· International Criminal Court (ICC) in Afghanistan
Air University
· Air & Space Power Journal, Fall 2009, v. 23, no. 3
o Cyberspace Leadership: Towards New Culture, Conduct, and Capabilities
o Air-Mindedness: Confessions of an Airpower Advocate
o A Perfect Storm over Nuclear Weapons
o Modern Air Power and the 1916 Arab Revolt: What Can the Modern Airman Do to Counter Lawrence of Arabia?
o Recent US and Chinese Antisatellite Activities
o Team Spirit: A Case Study on the Value of Military Exercises as a Show of Force in the Aftermath of Combat Operations
o Deterrence and Space-Based Missile Defense
o Damage Control: Leveraging Crisis Communications for Operational Effect
o Recruiting for 2030: Is the US Air Force Getting the Recruits It Needs for the Future?
o Modern Air Power and the 1916 Arab Revolt: What Can the Modern Airman Do to Counter Lawrence of Arabia?
o KC-X: The Game Changer for Mobility
o Efficiently Exploiting the Power of C4ISR by Optimally Organizing and Training the Producers of Combat Support Effects
o Airpower Security Cooperation as an Instrument of National Power: Lessons for Iraq from the Cases of Pakistan and Egypt
Army Combined Arms Center
· Military Review, November-December 2009, v. 89, no. 6
o Refighting the Last War: Afghanistan and the Vietnam Template by Thomas H. Johnson, M. Chris Mason
o Conscription, the Republic, and America’s Future by Adrian R. Lewis, Ph.D.
o Transformation and the Irregular Gap by Major Kenneth J. Burgess, U.S. Army
o Breaking Tactical Fixation: The Division’s Role by Brigadier General Alan Batschelet, U.S. Army, Lieutenant Colonel Mike Runey, U.S. Army, Lieutenant Colonel Gregory Meyer Jr., U.S. Army
o MiTT Advisor: A Year with the Best Division in the Iraqi Army by Colonel Timothy Deady, U.S. Army Reserve, Retired
o Russia’s Military Performance in Georgia by Tor Bukkvoll, Ph.D., Norway
o Revolutionary Management: The Role of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias in the Cuban Economy by Terry L. Maris, Ph.D.
o Competency vs. Character? It Must Be Both! by Lieutenant Colonel Joe Doty, U.S. Army, Ph.D., Major Walt Sowden, U.S. Army
o Developing Creative and Critical Thinkers by Colonel Charles D. Allen, U.S. Army, Retired, Colonel Stephen J. Gerras, Ph.D., U.S. Army, Retired
o Empathy: A True Leader Skill by Lieutenant Colonel Harry C. Garner, U.S. Army, Retired
o Emotional Intelligence and the Army Leadership Requirements Model by Lieutenant Colonel Gerald F. Sewell, U.S. Army, Retired
o The Mentorship Dilemma Continues by Major Edward Cox, U.S. Army
o Getting Off the Treadmill of Time by Colonel Chris Robertson, U.S. Army, Lieutenant Colonel Sophie Gainey, U.S. Army
o "Below-the-Zone" and Command Selection by Major Vylius M. Leskys, U.S. Army
o Army Chaplains: Leading from the Middle by Chaplain (Colonel) F. Eric Wester, U.S. Army
Army War College
· Parameters, Autumn 2009, v. 39, no. 3
o A Strategy of Tactics: Population-centric COIN and the Army by Gian P. Gentile
o Beyond Population Engagement: Understanding Counterinsurgency by Heather S. Gregg
o Conventional Deterrence in the Second Nuclear Age by Michael S. Gerson
o Playing for the Breaks: Insurgent Mistakes by Lincoln B. Krause
o Filling Irregular Warfare’s Interagency Gaps by Lew Irwin
o The Defense Identity Crisis: It’s a Hybrid World by Nathan Freier
o To Stay a Soldier by Chuck Callahan
Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)
· We'll Have Six of Them and Four of Those: Off-the-Shelf Procurement and Its Strategic Implications
British Council Pakistan
· Pakistan: The Next Generation
Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)
· The Strategic Quagmire: Why Nation Building in Afghanistan is Failing
CARE Canada
· Knowledge on Fire: Attacks on Education in Afghanistan – Risks and Measures for Successful Mitigation
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
· Egyptian Nuclear Leadership—Time to Realign?
· Iraqi Vice President Rejects Election Law, Threatening January Vote
· Sharing the Pain: The Global Struggle Over Savings
Center for a New American Security
· On the Knife’s Edge: Yemen’s Instability and the Threat to American Interests
Center for American Progress
· Clean Energy for the Wild Blue Yonder: Expanding Renewable Energy and Efficiency in the Air Force
· The U.S.- India Strategic Partnership is Vital
Center for Security Studies (CSS)
· Focal Report 3: Critical Infrastructure Protection Cybersecurity – Recent Strategies and Policies: An Analysis
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
· The Afghan Strategy Checklist: How to Evaluate the Effectiveness and Credibility of a Defining Test of Obama's Leadership
· Engaging Regional Players in Afghanistan: Threats and Opportunities
· Making Gender a Global Health Priority
Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
· Security Sector Reform Monitor, Afghanistan, November 2009, no. 2
Centre for Social Cohesion’s (CSC)
· Hizb ut-Tahrir: Ideology and Strategy
Chatham House
· The EU and China: Time for a Change?
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
· The Costs of Reducing Greenhouse-Gas Emissions Economic and Budget Issue Brief
Council on Foreign Relations
· The United States in the New Asia
Deloitte
· Energy Security: America's Best Defense
Department of State
· Special Briefing on Secretary Clinton's Recent Trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan
Energy Information Administration (EIA)
· Country Analysis Brief: Caribbean
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
· Hate Crime Statistics, 2008
· Law Enforcement Bulletin, November 2009
o Police Training for the Whole Person
o Use of Force and Community Awareness
o Retiring from the “Thin Blue Line” (Part Two)
o Pole Cameras and Surreptitious Surveillance
o Traits of Leadership
Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
· Hu-Obama Summit and U.S.-China Relations
· Obama’s Foreign Policy at Ten Months: the Limits of Consensus
· What Afghans Want
· Winning the Wars We’re In
Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces
· Fighting the Pre-eminent Threats with Intelligence-led Operations
· Security Sector Reform in Challenging Environments [selected chapters available for download]
· Strategies Against Human Trafficking: The Role of the Security Sector
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· Homeland Security: Key US-VISIT Components at Varying Stages of Completion, but Integrated and Reliable Schedule Needed, GAO-10-13
· Nuclear Weapons: National Nuclear Security Administration Needs to Better Manage Risks Associated with Modernization of Its Kansas City Plant, GAO-10-115
· Recovery Act: Recipient Reported Jobs Data Provide Some Insight into Use of Recovery Act Funding, but Data Quality and Reporting Issues Need Attention, GAO-10-223
Heritage Foundation
· Key Asian Indicators: A 2009 Book of Charts
· U.S.-India: An Enduring Partnership in Uncertain Times
Human Rights Watch
· Cruel Britannia: British Complicity in the Torture and Ill-treatment of Terror Suspects in Pakistan
· Group Denial: Repression of Kurdish Political and Cultural Rights in Syria
Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS)
· Joint Force Quarterly (JFQ), issue 56, 1st Quarter 2010
o Ambassadors to the World: A New Paradigm for Public Diplomacy and Strategic Communication by Robert D. Deutsch
o Public Engagement 101: What Strategic Communication Is, Isn’t, and Should Be by Kristin M. Lord
o “Strategic Communication” Is Vague: Say What You Mean by Christopher Paul
o Forum Executive Summary by David H. Gurney
o Afghanistan: Context and What’s Next by Volney F. Warner
o Winning Afghanistan at the Community Level: A Rejoinder to Volney F. Warner and “C” by Christopher D. Kolenda
o A Better War in Afghanistan by John A. Nagl
o Unified Effort: Key to Special Operations and Irregular Warfare in Afghanistan by Christopher J. Lamb and Martin Cinnamond
o Civil-Military Integration in Afghanistan: Creating Unity of Command by Joshua W. Welle
o Interview with Admiral Eric T. Olson, USN, Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command by David H. Gurney and Jeffrey D. Smotherman
o U.S. Special Operations: Context and Capabilities in Irregular Warfare by Eric T. Olson
o Countering Irregular Threats: The Army Special Operations Contribution by John F. Mulholland, Jr.
o Adapting Across the Spectrum of Conflict: The Role of Naval Special Warfare by Edward G. Winters
o Mastering the Art of the Possible: The Air Force Special Operations Command by Donald C. Wurster
o Forging Marine Special Operators by Mastin M. Robeson
o Legitimizing Army Psychological Operations by Alfred H. Paddock, Jr.
o The Business of War: The Impact of “PLA, Inc.” on Chinese Officers by Dean Cheng
o Israel and the Iranian Nuclear Infrastructure by Brent J. Talbot
o An Intelligent Theater by James G. Stavridis
o The Leavenworth Heresy and the Perversion of Operational Art by Justin Kelly and Michael J. Brennan
o Can the Army Become a Learning Organization? A Question Reexamined by Anthony J. DiBella
o Pay for Play: Countering Threat Financing by Michael T. Flynn and Simone A. Ledeen
o A Joint Staff to Believe In by G. John David and Paul S. Reinhart
o Global Insurgency: Myth Or Reality? Point/Counterpoint Introduction
o The Struggle Against Global Insurgency by Daniel G. Cox
o The Dangers of Mistaking Coherence for Capability by Michael W. Mosser
o Vice Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Leadership of the Joint Requirements Oversight Council by Richard M. Meinhart
o Unity of Command in the Pacific During World War II by Phillip S. Meilinger
o Wargaming the Flu by Margaret M. McCown
· U.S.-Cambodia Defense Relations: Defining New Possibilities
Institute for Security Studies
· ISS Paper 205: Political Violence in Kenya, A Study of Causes, Responses, and a Framework for Discussing Preventive Action
· ISS Paper 204: Confronting Complex Emergencies in Africa, Imperatives of a Search for a New Doctrine of Humanitarian ‘Security’ Interventions
· ISS Paper 203: The International Politics of Rape, Sex and the Family in Sierra Leone
· Another Crossroad for Burundi: From the FNL to Peaceful Elections in 2010
· Libya: A Critical Review of Tripoli’s Sub-Saharan African Policies, Amira Ibrahim
Institute for the Study of War
· President Hamid Karzai’s Second Inaugural Address
· The Taliban's Media Blitz
International Crisis Group
· Afghanistan: Elections and the Crisis of Governance
International Atomic Energy Administration (IAEA)
· Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
· Islamic Republic of Afghanistan: Afghanistan National Development Strategy: First Annual Report (2008/09)
International Peace Institute
· From Uganda to the Congo and Beyond: Pursuing the Lord's Resistance Army
International Relations and Security Network
· Costs of War: Fort Hood’s 9/11 Déjà Vu
· The Fog of Cyberwar
· The Future Is Ship Shape
· India’s Private Security Metamorphosis
· International Community Stuck in Bosnia
· Reforming the Afghan National Army
· Somalia Jumps on Private Security Bandwagon
Jamestown Foundation
· Terrorism Monitor, v, 7, no. 36, November 26, 2009
o Ibrahim al-Rubaish: New Religious Ideologue of al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia Calls for Revival of Assassination Tactic
o Al-Qaeda in Iraq Operations Suggest Rising Confidence Ahead of U.S. Military Withdrawal
o French Operation in Afghanistan Aims to Open New Coalition Supply Route
o Taliban Expand Insurgency to Northern Afghanistan
The Nation
· Blackwater's Secret War in Pakistan
National Academies Press
· Crisis Standards of Care: Summary of a Workshop Series [free download but registration required]
· Disposal of Legacy Nerve Agent GA and Lewisite Stocks at Deseret Chemical Depot Letter Report [free download but registration required]
· Ensuring the Integrity, Accessibility, and Stewardship of Research Data in the Digital Age
· Experimentation and Rapid Prototyping in Support of Counterterrorism [free download but registration required]
· Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2008 [free download but registration required]
National Academy of Science
· Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, November 24, 2009, v. 106, no. 47
o Warming increases the risk of civil war in Africa
National Bureau of Asian Research
· Managing Unmet Expectations in the U.S.-Japan Alliance
· Secure Land Rights as a Foundation for Broad-Based Rural Development in China: Results and Recommendations from a Seventeen-Province Survey
NATO Defense College
· Counterinsurgency: The Challenge for NATO Strategy and Operations
OECD
· Armed Violence Reduction: Enabling Development
Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)
· Iran's Naval Forces: From Guerilla (sic) Warfare to a Modern Naval Strategy http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/oni/iran-navy.pdf
OpenDoors Online
· Open Doors Report 2009: Report on International Educational Exchange
OpenSecurity
· The Afghan Anvil: Breaking the Indo-Pakistani Deadlock?
PAK Institute for Peace Studies
· Assessing the Reporting, Approach and Impact of Militants’ Print Media in Pakistan
· Profiling the Violence in Karachi
Peterson Institute for International Economics
· Capital Flows to Developing Countries: The Allocation Puzzle
Pew Research Center
· Polling Wars: Hawks vs. Doves
Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
· Where the Public Stands on Immigration Reform
Rand
· Air Force Officer Specialty Structure: Reviewing the Fundamentals
· Study of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Questions Assumptions Behind “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
· Understanding Commanders' Information Needs for Influence Operations
Small Wars Journal
· Afghanistan: Education and Literacy
· AFRICOM: Reconstruction and Stability Through the Provincial Reconstruction Team-Enhanced, Enabled by Unity of Command
· Reorganizing for Irregular Warfare
· The Myth of Hearts and Minds
Stanley Foundation
· Talking about Nuclear Weapons with the Persuadable Middle
Stimson Center
· The Indian Ocean: Resource and Governance Challenges
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
· The EU Non-Proliferation Clause: A Preliminary Assessment
Strategic Studies Institute
· Democratic Governance and the Rule of Law: Lessons from Colombia
· Leadership and National Security Reform Conference
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
· 2009 Patterns and Trends of Amphetamine-Type Stimulants and Other Drugs in East and South-East Asia (and Neighbouring Regions)
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
· State of the World’s Population 2009
World Public Opinion.org
· Majorities Reject Banning Defamation of Religion: 20 Nation Poll
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Friday's Miscellany 11-20-2009
American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)
• Battle for the Bundestag: The German Election of 2009
• The Politics of History in Germany and Japan
Australian Strategic Policy Institute
• How to Buy a Submarine: Defining and Building Australia’s Future Fleet
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
• Beyond Zero Enrichment: Suggestions for an Iranian Nuclear Deal
Brookings
• Vision for Victory in Afghanistan - Part I
• Vision for Victory in Afghanistan - Part II
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Fixing a Failed Strategy in Afghanistan
• Iran, the United States, and the Gulf: The Elusive Regional Policy
• Manmohan Singh Visits Washington: Sustaining US-Indian Cooperation Amid Differences
• Middle East Democracy Promotion Is Not a One-Way Street
• Restoring the NPT: Essential Steps for 2010
CATO Institute
• Bending the Productivity Curve: Why America Leads the World in Medical Innovation
Center for a New American Security
• On the Knife's Edge: Yemen's Instability and the Threat to American Interests
Center for American Progress
• How to Make the Afghanistan War a “Just War”
• Integrating Security: Preparing for the National Security Threats of the 21st Century
Center for Contemporary Conflict, Program for Culture & Conflict Studies
• Culture & Conflict Review, Fall 2009, v. 3, no. 3
o Developing an IO Environmental Assessment in Khost Province, Afghanistan
o Engaging Afghans: KLE Keys to Success
o The Federally Administered Tribal Areas: A Case Study in Health Capital and Democracy
o Employing Data Fusion in Cultural Analysis and Counterinsurgency in Tribal Social Systems
o The Status of US/ISAF Strategic Communications Efforts in Afghanistan
o Operation Nusrat (Victory): Understanding the Taliban Threat to Kunduz Province
o Clan, the State, and War: Balancing the Subcomponents of World Order
o Afghan Theatre Conference Aims to Impact Strategies in the Field
Center for Immigration Studies (CIS)
• Immigration and Crime: Assessing a Conflicted Issue
Center for Infrastructure Protection (CIP)
• CIP Report (September 2009) Biosafety and Biosecurity
• CIP Report (October 2009) Aging Infrastructure
• CIP Report (November 2009) Chemical Sector
Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)
• CNA's Integrated Ship Database (ISDB): A Rapid-Access Database of Naval Ship Information
• Impacts of Climate Change on Colombia’s National and Regional Security
Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)
• The War in Afghanistan in Strategic Context
Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
• Energy and Geopolitics in China: Mixing Oil and Politics
• Iraq: Security Trends
• Issues in International Political Economy - November 2009 - Number 119
o The Cost of Questionable Policies
• The MAGAI™ Construct and the Northern Distribution Network
• Policy Brief Number 5: Kazakhstan and the OSCE Human Dimension
Centre for Military and Strategic Studies
• The Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, Fall 2009, v. 12, no. 1
o Olympic Security: Assessing the Risk of Terrorism at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games
o A Special Military Relationship? Canada’s Role in Constructing US Military Power
o Shared Sacrifice? An Inquiry into the Willingness to Perform Compulsory Military Service
o Explaining the Interbellum Rupture in Japanese Treatment of Prisoners of War
o Taking Care of Business: Canada’s Forgotten Cold War Conflict in Cyprus, July-August, 1974
o Permanent Allies? The Canada-US Defence Relationship
o Canada's Army - Post Peacekeeping
The Century Foundation
• Challenges and Opportunities for Russia-US Nuclear Arms Control
Chatham House
• World Today, December 2009, v. 65, no. 12
o Pakistan: Clear, Hold, Build
Chemical and Biological Defense Program
• Joint Service Chemical and Biological Defense Program FY 08-09 Overview
Combat Terrorism Center (CTC)
• CTC Sentinel, v. 2, no. 11, November 2009
o Lashkar-i-Tayyiba: One Year After Mumbai By Stephen Tankel
o Success of the Meta-Narrative: How Jihadists Maintain Legitimacy
o AQIM and the Growth of International Investment in North Africa
o Hizb Allah's Domestic Containment and Regional Expansion Strategies
o Jihadist Radicalization and the 2004 Madrid Bombing Network
o The Past and Future of Deobandi Islam By Luv Puri
o Maintaining the Message: How Jihadists Have Adapted to Web Disruptions
o Recent Highlights in Terrorist Activity
Congress. House. Armed Services Committee
• Hearings
o Resourcing the National Defense Strategy: Implications of Long Term Defense Budget Trends [November 18, 2009]
o Iraq and Afghanistan: Perspectives on U.S. Strategy, Part III [November 17, 2009]
Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee
• Is it Time to Lift the Ban on Travel to Cuba?
• The State of Political and Religious Freedom in the Middle East
• Flag on the Bag?: Foreign Assistance and the Struggle Against Terrorism
Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee
• Reassessing the Evolving al-Qa’ida Threat to the Homeland
• Is the Flying Public Protected? An Assessment of Security at Foreign Repair Stations
• Federal Protective Service: Will Continuing Challenges Weaken Transition and Impede Progress?
Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee
• Examining U.S. Counterterrorism Priorities and Strategy Across Africa's Sahel Region
• The U.S. and the G-20: Remaking the International Economic Architecture
• Threats to Free and Independent Media Around the World
Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee
• The Fort Hood Attack: A Preliminary Assessment
• Accountability for Foreign Contractors: The Lieutenant Colonel Dominic ‘Rocky’ Baragona Justice for American Heroes Harmed by Contractors Act
• H1N1 Flu: Getting the Vaccine to Where It Is Most Needed
Congress. Senate. Judiciary Committee
• Cybersecurity: Preventing Terrorist Attacks and Protecting Privacy in Cyberspace
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
• Long-term Implications of the Department of Defense’s Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Submission
Council on Foreign Relations
• Disillusionment in Afghanistan
• Public Opinion on Global Issues
Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)
• D-2010-022 Management of Nontactical Vehicles in Support of Operation Iraqi Freedom
Department of Homeland Security Inspector General
• OIG-10-06 - Review of the U.S. Coast Guard's Expenditure Plans for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Redacted)
Department of State
• 2009 Report on International Religious Freedom
Director of National Intelligence (DNI)
• The Inaugural Report of the Global Maritime and Air Communities of Interest Intelligence Enterprises
Gallup Poll
• Afghans Assess Roles for NATO, U.N., Regional Actors
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
• Combating Nuclear Smuggling: Recent Testing Raises Issues About the Potential Effectiveness of Advanced Radiation Detection Portal Monitors, GAO-10-252T [testimony]
• Critical Infrastructure Protection: OMB Leadership Needed to Strengthen Agency Planning Efforts to Protect Federal Cyber Assets, GAO-10-148
• Cybersecurity: Continued Efforts Are Needed to Protect Information Systems from Evolving Threats, GAO-10-230T [testimony]
• Corporate Crime: Prosecutors Adhered to Guidance in Selecting Monitors for Deferred Prosecution and Non-Prosecution Agreements, but DOJ Could Better Communicate Its Role in Resolving Conflicts, GAO-10-260T [testimony]
• Defense Acquisitions: Further Actions Needed to Address Weaknesses in DOD's Management of Professional and Management Support Contracts, GAO-10-39
• Defense Health Care: Post-Deployment Health Reassessment Documentation Needs Improvement, GAO-10-56
• Homeland Security: Greater Attention to Key Practices Would Improve the Federal Protective Service's Approach to Facility Protection, GAO-10-142
• Homeland Security: Greater Attention to Key Practices Would Help Address Security Vulnerabilities at Federal Buildings, GAO-10-236T [testimony]
• Homeland Security: Key US-VISIT Components at Varying Stages of Completion, but Integrated and Reliable Schedule Needed, GAO-10-13
• Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Program: Case Studies Show Fraud and Abuse Allowed Ineligible Firms to Obtain Millions of Dollars in Contracts, GAO-10-108
• Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Program: Case Studies Show Fraud and Abuse Allowed Ineligible Firms to Obtain Millions of Dollars in Contracts, GAO-10-255T [testimony]
Heritage Foundation
• The “Kyoto II” Climate Change Treaty: Implications for American Sovereignty
• Move to Hastily Retire Legacy Fighter Aircraft puts Air Sovereignty at Risk
• START Follow-On Treaty Could Interfere with Conventional Strike Systems
• Trade Dispute Undercuts Obama's Korea Trip
• Swine Flu and Sick Leave: Improvements to the Emergency Influenza Containment Act Would Save Jobs
Human Rights Watch
• "An Alleyway in Hell": China's Abusive "Black Jails"
• New Castro, Same Cuba: Political Prisoners in the Post-Fidel Era
• On Vulnerable Ground: Violence against Minority Communities in Nineveh Province’s Disputed Territories
IDEEA Inc.
• Common Defense Quarterly, Winter 2009
o Export Control Reform – Once More With Feeling
o “Smart Power: Old Wine in New Bottles?”
o Hard Choices for the Common Defense: Trade Equity and the Shared Political Burden
o Refocusing A Tradition: U.S. Navy Support For Partner Maritime Capacity Building
o Enabling Coalition Operations to Support the Maritime Common Defense
o Origins of a Four Decade Success Story: NATO SeaSparrow’s founders got it right
o Implementing Australia’s Defence White Paper 2009– the need for Signposts and Indicators
o NATO’s Strategic Airlift Capability Achieves Full Operational Capability
o Canada and the United States -- A Forum on Afghanistan
o Cooling the Cauldron in the Caucasus
o Interview with Richard Paniguian, Head, Defence & Security Organization, Ministry of Defence, UK
o United States National Guard Force Structure Part One: People
International Peace Institute
• The Invisible Tide: Towards an International Strategy to Deal with Drug Trafficking Through West Africa
Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses
• US-Induced Privatization of Security in Pakistan
Institute for Security Studies
• Bringing Fairness to International Justice, A Handbook on the International Criminal Court for Defence Lawyers in Africa
Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)
• Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions 1737 (2006), 1747 (2007), 1803 (2008) and 1835 (2008) in the Islamic Republic of Iran
• Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Syrian Arab Republic
• New Satellite Image Further Narrows Fordow (Iran) Construction Start Date
Institute for the Study of War
• Afghanistan Order of Battle • Forces Available for Afghanistan, 2009-10
International Relations and Security Network
• Caught Between Pristina and Belgrade
• EU Sees Through Belarus Smoke
• Mexican Cartels’ Andean Stronghold
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America
• Women Warriors—Supporting ‘She Who Has Won The Battle’
Jamestown Foundation
• China Brief, v. 9, no. 23, November 19 2009
o The CCP’s Disturbing Revival of Maoism
o Chinese Coast Guard Development: Challenge and Opportunity
o The evolution of Taiwan’s Military Strategy: Convergence and Dissonance
o Chinese Analyses of Soviet Failure: The Party
• Terrorism Monitor, v. 7, no. 35, November 20 2009
o A Shift in Terrorist Strategy Threatens Italian National Security
o Iranian Leaders Weigh Support for the Houthi Rebellion in Yemen
o Combating Terrorism in Asian Waters
o The Jihadis and the Cause of South Yemen: A Profile of Tariq al-Fadhli
McAfee
• Virtual Criminology Report 2009: Virtually Here: The Age of Cyber Warfare
National Security Archive
• The Soviet Origins of Helmut Kohl's 10 Points
Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)
• A Modern Navy with Chinese Characteristics
Office of the Command Surgeon, US Forces Afghanistan (USFOR-A) and the Office of The Surgeon General United States Army Medical Command
• Mental Health Advisory Team (MHAT) 6 Operation Enduring Freedom 2009 Afghanistan
Oxfam International and others
• The Cost of War: Afghan Experiences of Conflict, 1978-2009
Quilliam Foundation
• Unlocking Al-Qaeda: Islamist Extremism in British Prisons
Rand
• Examining U.S. Counterterrorism Priorities and Strategy Across Africa's Sahel Region
• Going Jihad: The Fort Hood Slayings and Home-Grown Terrorism
Small Wars Journal
• The Hasan Slide Presentation
• A Strategy of Exhaustion
South Asia Analysis Group
• The 313 Brigade - International Terrorism Monitor - Paper No. 579
• Special Services Group & PAK-Sponsored Terrorism-International Terrorism Monitor: Paper No.578
South Asia Intelligence Review
• Weekly Assessments & Briefings, v. 8, no. 18, November 9, 2009
o South Waziristan: Blind Fury
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
• Map of Multilateral Peace Operations Deployments
SpaceSecurity.org
• Space Security 2009
Stanley Foundation
• Securing Vulnerable Nuclear Materials: Meeting the Global Challenge
• Talking about Nuclear Weapons with the Persuadable Middle
Strategic Studies Institute
• YouTube War: Fighting in a World of Cameras in Every Cell Phone and Photoshop on Every Computer
Transnational Institute
• Mexico: The Law Against Small-Scale Drug Dealing
Transparency International
• Corruption Perceptions Index 2009
UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)
• 2009 Report on International Religious Freedom – Pakistan
US Air Forces Central
• Airpower Summary [Daily - OEF/OIF]
• Combined Forces Air Component Commander 2004-2009 Airpower Statistics [current as of 2 Nov]
U.S.-China Economic & Security Review Commission
• 2009 Report to Congress
US Institute of Peace (USIP)
• The Afghan Elections: What Happened and Where Do We Go From Here?
• Looking for Justice: Liberian Experiences with and Perceptions of Local Justice Options
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Diagnosing the Impasse in the Middle East Peace Process
• A General's Plan for Peace
• Hamas and Its Long-Range Rockets: Military and Political Implications
• Iraq's Elections Challenge: A Shifting Political Landscape
• Iraq's Enduring al-Qaeda Challenge
• A Victory for Islamism? The Second Lebanon War and Its Repercussions
World Health Organization (WHO)
• Interim Planning Considerations for Mass Gatherings in the Context of Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Influenza
• Battle for the Bundestag: The German Election of 2009
• The Politics of History in Germany and Japan
Australian Strategic Policy Institute
• How to Buy a Submarine: Defining and Building Australia’s Future Fleet
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
• Beyond Zero Enrichment: Suggestions for an Iranian Nuclear Deal
Brookings
• Vision for Victory in Afghanistan - Part I
• Vision for Victory in Afghanistan - Part II
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Fixing a Failed Strategy in Afghanistan
• Iran, the United States, and the Gulf: The Elusive Regional Policy
• Manmohan Singh Visits Washington: Sustaining US-Indian Cooperation Amid Differences
• Middle East Democracy Promotion Is Not a One-Way Street
• Restoring the NPT: Essential Steps for 2010
CATO Institute
• Bending the Productivity Curve: Why America Leads the World in Medical Innovation
Center for a New American Security
• On the Knife's Edge: Yemen's Instability and the Threat to American Interests
Center for American Progress
• How to Make the Afghanistan War a “Just War”
• Integrating Security: Preparing for the National Security Threats of the 21st Century
Center for Contemporary Conflict, Program for Culture & Conflict Studies
• Culture & Conflict Review, Fall 2009, v. 3, no. 3
o Developing an IO Environmental Assessment in Khost Province, Afghanistan
o Engaging Afghans: KLE Keys to Success
o The Federally Administered Tribal Areas: A Case Study in Health Capital and Democracy
o Employing Data Fusion in Cultural Analysis and Counterinsurgency in Tribal Social Systems
o The Status of US/ISAF Strategic Communications Efforts in Afghanistan
o Operation Nusrat (Victory): Understanding the Taliban Threat to Kunduz Province
o Clan, the State, and War: Balancing the Subcomponents of World Order
o Afghan Theatre Conference Aims to Impact Strategies in the Field
Center for Immigration Studies (CIS)
• Immigration and Crime: Assessing a Conflicted Issue
Center for Infrastructure Protection (CIP)
• CIP Report (September 2009) Biosafety and Biosecurity
• CIP Report (October 2009) Aging Infrastructure
• CIP Report (November 2009) Chemical Sector
Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)
• CNA's Integrated Ship Database (ISDB): A Rapid-Access Database of Naval Ship Information
• Impacts of Climate Change on Colombia’s National and Regional Security
Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)
• The War in Afghanistan in Strategic Context
Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
• Energy and Geopolitics in China: Mixing Oil and Politics
• Iraq: Security Trends
• Issues in International Political Economy - November 2009 - Number 119
o The Cost of Questionable Policies
• The MAGAI™ Construct and the Northern Distribution Network
• Policy Brief Number 5: Kazakhstan and the OSCE Human Dimension
Centre for Military and Strategic Studies
• The Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, Fall 2009, v. 12, no. 1
o Olympic Security: Assessing the Risk of Terrorism at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games
o A Special Military Relationship? Canada’s Role in Constructing US Military Power
o Shared Sacrifice? An Inquiry into the Willingness to Perform Compulsory Military Service
o Explaining the Interbellum Rupture in Japanese Treatment of Prisoners of War
o Taking Care of Business: Canada’s Forgotten Cold War Conflict in Cyprus, July-August, 1974
o Permanent Allies? The Canada-US Defence Relationship
o Canada's Army - Post Peacekeeping
The Century Foundation
• Challenges and Opportunities for Russia-US Nuclear Arms Control
Chatham House
• World Today, December 2009, v. 65, no. 12
o Pakistan: Clear, Hold, Build
Chemical and Biological Defense Program
• Joint Service Chemical and Biological Defense Program FY 08-09 Overview
Combat Terrorism Center (CTC)
• CTC Sentinel, v. 2, no. 11, November 2009
o Lashkar-i-Tayyiba: One Year After Mumbai By Stephen Tankel
o Success of the Meta-Narrative: How Jihadists Maintain Legitimacy
o AQIM and the Growth of International Investment in North Africa
o Hizb Allah's Domestic Containment and Regional Expansion Strategies
o Jihadist Radicalization and the 2004 Madrid Bombing Network
o The Past and Future of Deobandi Islam By Luv Puri
o Maintaining the Message: How Jihadists Have Adapted to Web Disruptions
o Recent Highlights in Terrorist Activity
Congress. House. Armed Services Committee
• Hearings
o Resourcing the National Defense Strategy: Implications of Long Term Defense Budget Trends [November 18, 2009]
o Iraq and Afghanistan: Perspectives on U.S. Strategy, Part III [November 17, 2009]
Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee
• Is it Time to Lift the Ban on Travel to Cuba?
• The State of Political and Religious Freedom in the Middle East
• Flag on the Bag?: Foreign Assistance and the Struggle Against Terrorism
Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee
• Reassessing the Evolving al-Qa’ida Threat to the Homeland
• Is the Flying Public Protected? An Assessment of Security at Foreign Repair Stations
• Federal Protective Service: Will Continuing Challenges Weaken Transition and Impede Progress?
Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee
• Examining U.S. Counterterrorism Priorities and Strategy Across Africa's Sahel Region
• The U.S. and the G-20: Remaking the International Economic Architecture
• Threats to Free and Independent Media Around the World
Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee
• The Fort Hood Attack: A Preliminary Assessment
• Accountability for Foreign Contractors: The Lieutenant Colonel Dominic ‘Rocky’ Baragona Justice for American Heroes Harmed by Contractors Act
• H1N1 Flu: Getting the Vaccine to Where It Is Most Needed
Congress. Senate. Judiciary Committee
• Cybersecurity: Preventing Terrorist Attacks and Protecting Privacy in Cyberspace
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
• Long-term Implications of the Department of Defense’s Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Submission
Council on Foreign Relations
• Disillusionment in Afghanistan
• Public Opinion on Global Issues
Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)
• D-2010-022 Management of Nontactical Vehicles in Support of Operation Iraqi Freedom
Department of Homeland Security Inspector General
• OIG-10-06 - Review of the U.S. Coast Guard's Expenditure Plans for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Redacted)
Department of State
• 2009 Report on International Religious Freedom
Director of National Intelligence (DNI)
• The Inaugural Report of the Global Maritime and Air Communities of Interest Intelligence Enterprises
Gallup Poll
• Afghans Assess Roles for NATO, U.N., Regional Actors
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
• Combating Nuclear Smuggling: Recent Testing Raises Issues About the Potential Effectiveness of Advanced Radiation Detection Portal Monitors, GAO-10-252T [testimony]
• Critical Infrastructure Protection: OMB Leadership Needed to Strengthen Agency Planning Efforts to Protect Federal Cyber Assets, GAO-10-148
• Cybersecurity: Continued Efforts Are Needed to Protect Information Systems from Evolving Threats, GAO-10-230T [testimony]
• Corporate Crime: Prosecutors Adhered to Guidance in Selecting Monitors for Deferred Prosecution and Non-Prosecution Agreements, but DOJ Could Better Communicate Its Role in Resolving Conflicts, GAO-10-260T [testimony]
• Defense Acquisitions: Further Actions Needed to Address Weaknesses in DOD's Management of Professional and Management Support Contracts, GAO-10-39
• Defense Health Care: Post-Deployment Health Reassessment Documentation Needs Improvement, GAO-10-56
• Homeland Security: Greater Attention to Key Practices Would Improve the Federal Protective Service's Approach to Facility Protection, GAO-10-142
• Homeland Security: Greater Attention to Key Practices Would Help Address Security Vulnerabilities at Federal Buildings, GAO-10-236T [testimony]
• Homeland Security: Key US-VISIT Components at Varying Stages of Completion, but Integrated and Reliable Schedule Needed, GAO-10-13
• Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Program: Case Studies Show Fraud and Abuse Allowed Ineligible Firms to Obtain Millions of Dollars in Contracts, GAO-10-108
• Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Program: Case Studies Show Fraud and Abuse Allowed Ineligible Firms to Obtain Millions of Dollars in Contracts, GAO-10-255T [testimony]
Heritage Foundation
• The “Kyoto II” Climate Change Treaty: Implications for American Sovereignty
• Move to Hastily Retire Legacy Fighter Aircraft puts Air Sovereignty at Risk
• START Follow-On Treaty Could Interfere with Conventional Strike Systems
• Trade Dispute Undercuts Obama's Korea Trip
• Swine Flu and Sick Leave: Improvements to the Emergency Influenza Containment Act Would Save Jobs
Human Rights Watch
• "An Alleyway in Hell": China's Abusive "Black Jails"
• New Castro, Same Cuba: Political Prisoners in the Post-Fidel Era
• On Vulnerable Ground: Violence against Minority Communities in Nineveh Province’s Disputed Territories
IDEEA Inc.
• Common Defense Quarterly, Winter 2009
o Export Control Reform – Once More With Feeling
o “Smart Power: Old Wine in New Bottles?”
o Hard Choices for the Common Defense: Trade Equity and the Shared Political Burden
o Refocusing A Tradition: U.S. Navy Support For Partner Maritime Capacity Building
o Enabling Coalition Operations to Support the Maritime Common Defense
o Origins of a Four Decade Success Story: NATO SeaSparrow’s founders got it right
o Implementing Australia’s Defence White Paper 2009– the need for Signposts and Indicators
o NATO’s Strategic Airlift Capability Achieves Full Operational Capability
o Canada and the United States -- A Forum on Afghanistan
o Cooling the Cauldron in the Caucasus
o Interview with Richard Paniguian, Head, Defence & Security Organization, Ministry of Defence, UK
o United States National Guard Force Structure Part One: People
International Peace Institute
• The Invisible Tide: Towards an International Strategy to Deal with Drug Trafficking Through West Africa
Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses
• US-Induced Privatization of Security in Pakistan
Institute for Security Studies
• Bringing Fairness to International Justice, A Handbook on the International Criminal Court for Defence Lawyers in Africa
Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)
• Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions 1737 (2006), 1747 (2007), 1803 (2008) and 1835 (2008) in the Islamic Republic of Iran
• Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Syrian Arab Republic
• New Satellite Image Further Narrows Fordow (Iran) Construction Start Date
Institute for the Study of War
• Afghanistan Order of Battle • Forces Available for Afghanistan, 2009-10
International Relations and Security Network
• Caught Between Pristina and Belgrade
• EU Sees Through Belarus Smoke
• Mexican Cartels’ Andean Stronghold
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America
• Women Warriors—Supporting ‘She Who Has Won The Battle’
Jamestown Foundation
• China Brief, v. 9, no. 23, November 19 2009
o The CCP’s Disturbing Revival of Maoism
o Chinese Coast Guard Development: Challenge and Opportunity
o The evolution of Taiwan’s Military Strategy: Convergence and Dissonance
o Chinese Analyses of Soviet Failure: The Party
• Terrorism Monitor, v. 7, no. 35, November 20 2009
o A Shift in Terrorist Strategy Threatens Italian National Security
o Iranian Leaders Weigh Support for the Houthi Rebellion in Yemen
o Combating Terrorism in Asian Waters
o The Jihadis and the Cause of South Yemen: A Profile of Tariq al-Fadhli
McAfee
• Virtual Criminology Report 2009: Virtually Here: The Age of Cyber Warfare
National Security Archive
• The Soviet Origins of Helmut Kohl's 10 Points
Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)
• A Modern Navy with Chinese Characteristics
Office of the Command Surgeon, US Forces Afghanistan (USFOR-A) and the Office of The Surgeon General United States Army Medical Command
• Mental Health Advisory Team (MHAT) 6 Operation Enduring Freedom 2009 Afghanistan
Oxfam International and others
• The Cost of War: Afghan Experiences of Conflict, 1978-2009
Quilliam Foundation
• Unlocking Al-Qaeda: Islamist Extremism in British Prisons
Rand
• Examining U.S. Counterterrorism Priorities and Strategy Across Africa's Sahel Region
• Going Jihad: The Fort Hood Slayings and Home-Grown Terrorism
Small Wars Journal
• The Hasan Slide Presentation
• A Strategy of Exhaustion
South Asia Analysis Group
• The 313 Brigade - International Terrorism Monitor - Paper No. 579
• Special Services Group & PAK-Sponsored Terrorism-International Terrorism Monitor: Paper No.578
South Asia Intelligence Review
• Weekly Assessments & Briefings, v. 8, no. 18, November 9, 2009
o South Waziristan: Blind Fury
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
• Map of Multilateral Peace Operations Deployments
SpaceSecurity.org
• Space Security 2009
Stanley Foundation
• Securing Vulnerable Nuclear Materials: Meeting the Global Challenge
• Talking about Nuclear Weapons with the Persuadable Middle
Strategic Studies Institute
• YouTube War: Fighting in a World of Cameras in Every Cell Phone and Photoshop on Every Computer
Transnational Institute
• Mexico: The Law Against Small-Scale Drug Dealing
Transparency International
• Corruption Perceptions Index 2009
UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)
• 2009 Report on International Religious Freedom – Pakistan
US Air Forces Central
• Airpower Summary [Daily - OEF/OIF]
• Combined Forces Air Component Commander 2004-2009 Airpower Statistics [current as of 2 Nov]
U.S.-China Economic & Security Review Commission
• 2009 Report to Congress
US Institute of Peace (USIP)
• The Afghan Elections: What Happened and Where Do We Go From Here?
• Looking for Justice: Liberian Experiences with and Perceptions of Local Justice Options
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Diagnosing the Impasse in the Middle East Peace Process
• A General's Plan for Peace
• Hamas and Its Long-Range Rockets: Military and Political Implications
• Iraq's Elections Challenge: A Shifting Political Landscape
• Iraq's Enduring al-Qaeda Challenge
• A Victory for Islamism? The Second Lebanon War and Its Repercussions
World Health Organization (WHO)
• Interim Planning Considerations for Mass Gatherings in the Context of Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Influenza
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