Friday's Miscellany for 11-30-2007

Air Force Association

• Victory in Cyberspace—A Special Report for the Air Force Association. http://www.afa.org/media/reports/victorycyberspace.pdf
  

American Security Project

• Are We Winning? Measuring Progress in the Struggle Against Violent Jihadism. http://www.americansecurityproject.org/files/ASP_RPTWeb_0.pdf
  

Amnesty International

• Pakistan: Fatal Erosion of Human Rights Safeguards Under Emergency. http://web.amnesty.org/library/pdf/ASA330402007ENGLISH/$File/ASA3304007.pdf
  

• Russian Federation: Human Rights Defenders at Risk in the North Caucasus. http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGEUR460532007
  

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• And the Guest of Honor is…Missing. http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=19736&prog=zgp&proj=zme

• Congratulations to Iran. http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=19728&prog=zgp&proj=znpp
  

• Egypt—Don’t Give Up on Democracy Promotion. http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/pb_52_egypt_final.pdf

• Germany's Pivotal Role in the Iranian Nuclear Standoff. http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=19720&prog=zgp&proj=znpp
  

• Islamist Movements. http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=19731&prog=zgp&proj=zme
  

• Lebanon in Precarious Drift as Parliament Fails to Elect President. http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/salem_lebanon_11_26_formatted.pdf

• Pakistan—Conflicted Ally in the War on Terror. http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/pb56_tellis_pakistan_final.pdf

Center for Security Policy

• Civil Disobedience, Chavez and Democgracy. http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/home.aspx?sid=140&categoryid=140&subcategoryid=142
  

• From AMIA to Armageddon. http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/home.aspx?sid=140&categoryid=140&subcategoryid=142
  

• Palestine: Staticidal Zealotry. http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/home.aspx?sid=140&categoryid=140&subcategoryid=142

Center for Strategic and International Studies

• Back from the Brink: Evaluating Progress in Colombia, 1999-2007. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071112-backfromthebrink-web.pdf

• Critical Questions: The China Currency Conundrum. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071126_cq_freeman_currency.pdf

• Critical Questions: Kosovo Decision Will Have International Ramifications. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071127_bugajski_kosovo.pdf

• Iran, Israel and Nuclear War: An Illustrative Scenario Analysis. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071119_iran.is&nuclearwar.pdf

• Iran’s Nuclear and Missile Programs: A Status Report. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071126irannukewmd.pdf

• Iran’s Nuclear Program: UN and IAEA Reporting and Developments. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071127_iraniaea.pdf

Congressional Budget Office

• CBO's Economic Forecasting Record: 2007 Update. http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdoc.cfm?index=8713&type=1

• Issues in Climate Change. http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdoc.cfm?index=8819&type=1

Energy Information Administration (EIA)

• Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the United States 2006. ftp://ftp.eia.doe.gov/pub/oiaf/1605/cdrom/pdf/ggrpt/057306.pdf

Foreign Policy Research Institute

• War and the West by Williamson Murray. http://www.fpri.org/footnotes/1226.200711.murray.warwest.html

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Digital Television Transition: Questions on the DTV Converter Box Subsidy Program and a DTV Inter-Agency Task Force. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08297r.pdf

• DOD Transformation Challenges and Opportunities. http://www.gao.gov/cghome/d08323cg.pdf

• Homeland Security: Federal Efforts are Helping to Alleviate Some Challenges Encountered by State and Local Information Fusion Centers. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0835.pdf

• Nuclear and Worker Safety: Actions Needed to Determine the Effectiveness of Safety Improvement Efforts at NNSA's Weapons Laboratories. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0873.pdf

Heritage Foundation

• Domestic Factors Driving Russia's Foreign Policy. http://www.heritage.org/Research/RussiaandEurasia/upload/bg_2084.pdf

• Who's Who in Russia's Parliamentary Elections. http://www.heritage.org/Research/RussiaandEurasia/upload/wm_1706.pdf

Institute for Science and International Security

• ISIS Issue Brief: November IAEA Report: Centrifuge File Not Closed; Natanz Enrichment Expands. http://www.isis-online.org/publications/iran/ISISIssueBriefIran15Nov2007.pdf

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Fourth Assessment Report. Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report. Summary for Policymakers. http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/syr/ar4_syr_spm.pdf

International Crisis Group

• Darfur’s New Security Reality. http://www.crisisgroup.org/library/documents/africa/horn_of_africa/134_darfur_s_new_security_reality.pdf

• The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Annapolis and After. http://www.crisisgroup.org/library/documents/middle_east___north_africa/arab_israeli_conflict/b22_the_israeli_palestinian_conflict___annapolis_and_after.pdf

Jamestown Foundation

• Terrorism Focus, November 27, 2007, v. 4, no. 39 http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?issue_id=4309

• New Generation of al-Qaeda on Trial in Yemen
• Al-Qaeda, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group and Jihad in North Africa
• PKK Leadership Under Pressure in the Post-Öcalan Era
• MKO Uses YouTube to Display Military Prowess

Pew Research Center for the People and the Press

• Public Sees Progress in War Effort. http://people-press.org/reports/pdf/373.pdf

• Will Shared Concern about Iran Provide Common Ground for Middle East Negotiators in Annapolis? http://pewresearch.org/pubs/641/middle-east-summit-annapolis

Project for Excellence in Journalism

• Journalists in Iraq: A Survey of Reporters on the Front Lines. http://journalism.org/files/PEJ%20FINAL%20Survey%20of%20Journalists%20in%20IraqWITH%20SURVEY.pdf

RAND

• An Economic Development Architecture for New Orleans. http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2007/RAND_TR547.pdf

• Evaluating Alternative Organizational Structures to Revitalize the Economy of New Orleans. Testimony. http://www.rand.org/pubs/testimonies/2007/RAND_CT295.pdf

• Preparing the Army for Stability Operations: Doctrinal and Interagency Issues. http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2007/RAND_MG646.pdf

• Setting the Agenda for an Evidence-based Olympics. http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2007/RAND_TR516.pdf

Strategic Studies Institute

• The Global War on Terrorism: A Religious War? http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB822.pdf

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

• Human Development report 2007/2008: Fighting Climate Change: Human Solidarity in a Divided World. http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/hdr_20072008_en_complete.pdf

United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

• UNODC Annual Report for 2007. http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/about-unodc/annual-report.html

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• Holy Land Mistrial: Judging a Designated Terrorist Entity. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2687

• Lebanon's Presidential Crisis. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2686

Friday's Miscellany 11-23-2007

Amnesty International

• Albania: "No Place to Call home" - Adult Orphans and the Right to Housing. http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGEUR110052007
• Central African Republic: War Against Children in the Wild North. http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAFR190062007
• Slovakia: Still Separate, Sill Unequal Violations of the Right to Education of Romani Children in Slovakia. http://web.amnesty.org/library/pdf/EUR720012007ENGLISH/$file/EUR7200107.pdf

Bread for the World

• Hunger 2008: Working Harder for Working Families. http://www.bread.org/learn/hunger-reports/hunger-report-2008-download.html [previous reports available at http://www.bread.org/learn/hunger-reports/ ]

British American Security Information Council (BASIC)

• Iran Update, No. 110. http://www.basicint.org/update/iran071121.htm
• The Real Cost Behind Trident Replacement and the Carriers. http://www.basicint.org/nuclear/beyondtrident/cost.pdf
• Washington Nuclear Update - Getting to Zero. http://www.basicint.org/update/zero071121.htm

Brookings

• The Next Phase of the Iraq War. http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2007/1115_iraq_byman.aspx
• Tangling Over Recess Appointments: What’s at Stake? http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2007/1121_senate_binder.aspx

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Arab Reform Bulletin: November 2007. http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=19713&prog=zgp&proj=zdrl,zme
• The Presidential Crisis in Lebanon Demands Urgent Attention. http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=19714&prog=zgp&proj=zme

Center for American Progress

• Needing NATO: The Alliance Could Crumble if the U.S. Becomes the COIN Expert
  http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/2007/11/3022332
• A Report Half Empty: Iran Needs to Level with the IAEA. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/11/iaea_iran.html
• A Strategy for Success in Sirte
  http://americanprogress.org/issues/2007/11/pdf/enough13.pdf

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)

• Global Forecast: The Top Security Challenges of 2008
  http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071114_intro_global_forecast.pdf

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

• Homeland Security Technologies. http://www.cfr.org/publication/14827/homeland_security_technologies.html?breadcrumb=%2Fpublication%2Fby_type%2Fbackgrounder
• The Road to Annapolis. http://www.cfr.org/publication/14850/road_to_annapolis.html?breadcrumb=%2F

Defense Science Board (DSB)

• Deployment of Members of the National Guard and Reserves in the Global War on Terror
  http://www.acq.osd.mil/dsb/reports/2007-11-National_Guard_and_Reserve_in_the_Global_War_on_Terrorism.pdf

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

• Protecting Critical Infrastructure. http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200711.gale.infrastructure.html
• War and Leadership: a Critical Analysis of Thucydides’ Account of the Athenian Expedition to Sicily. http://www.fpri.org/footnotes/1227.200711.walling.warleadershipthucydides.html

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Immigration Benefits: Seventeenth Report Required by the Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 1998. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08267r.pdf

Heritage Foundation

• The Annapolis Peace Conference: Cloudy Prospects for Success. http://www.heritage.org/Research/MiddleEast/wm1708.cfm
• U.N. Further Weakens Human Rights Council. http://www.heritage.org/Research/InternationalOrganizations/wm1707.cfm
• Who's Who in Russia's Parliamentary Elections. http://www.heritage.org/Research/RussiaandEurasia/wm1706.cfm

Human Rights Watch

• Exported and Exposed: Abuses against Sri Lankan Domestic Workers in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Lebanon, and the United Arab Emirates. http://hrw.org/reports/2007/srilanka1107/
• Prohibited Identities: State Interference with Religious Freedom. http://hrw.org/reports/2007/egypt1107/

International Crisis Group

• “Deradicalisation” and Indonesian Prisons. http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=5170&l=1
• The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Annapolis and After. http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?l=1&id=5174
• Winding Back Martial Law in Pakistan. http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=5156&l=1

International Relations and Security Network (ISN)

• Opium: Legal Solutions. http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=18392

Jamestown Foundation

• China Brief (November 14, 2007). http://jamestown.org/terrorism/news/uploads/cb_007_021.pdf
• Terrorism Focus (November 20, 2007). http://jamestown.org/terrorism/news/uploads/tf_004_038.pdf

Joint Economic Committee

• War at Any Price?—the Total Economic Costs of the War Beyond the Federal Budget
  http://jec.senate.gov/Documents/Reports/11.13.07IraqEconomicCostsReport.pdf
• Republican Response. http://www.house.gov/jec/news/2007/Nov/JEC%20GOP%20Response.pdf

Pew Research Center

• Lebanon's Precarious Politics: Many of the Country's Sectarian Differences Do Not Run along a Straight Muslim-Christian Fault Line.
  http://pewresearch.org/pubs/636/lebanon-politics

Progressive Policy Institute (PPI)

• Rebuilding America's Reserves. http://www.ppionline.org/documents/RebuildingReserves111407.pdf

Rand

• Analysis of Racial Disparities in the New York Police Department's Stop, Question, and Frisk Practices. http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2007/RAND_TR534.pdf
• Preparing the Army for Stability Operations: Doctrinal and Interagency Issues. http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2007/RAND_MG646.pdf
• Technology Acquisition by Terrorist Groups: Threat Assessment Informed by Lessons from Private Sector Technology Adoption [Reprint]. http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/2007/RAND_RP1248.pdf
• The Victims of Terrorism: An Assessment of Their Influence and Growing Role in Policy, Legislation, and the Private Sector. http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/2007/RAND_OP180-1.pdf

SENLIS Council

• Afghanistan: Stumbling into Chaos: Afghanistan on the Brink.
  http://www.senliscouncil.net/modules/publications/Afghanistan_on_the_brink/documents/Afghanistan_on_the_brink

Strategic Studies Institute

• AFRICOM's Dilemma: The "Global War on Terrorism" "Capacity Building," Humanitarianism, and the Future of U.S. Security Policy in Africa. http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=827
• East Asian Security: Two Views. http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=800
• Regional Threats and Security Strategy: The Troubling Case of Today's Middle East. http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=814
• Security Cooperation; A Key to the Challenges of the 21st Century. http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=820

REPORT - Deployment of the National Guard and Reserves

The Defense Science Board has posted a new report on the Deployment of Members of the National Guard and Reserves in the Global War on Terror. The report can be found at on the DSB reports page -- http://www.acq.osd.mil/dsb/reports.htm or directly at

http://www.acq.osd.mil/dsb/reports/2007-11-National_Guard_and_Reserve_in_the_Global_War_on_Terrorism.pdf

The task force examined the question of optimal length and frequency of deployment of members of the National Guard and reserve. According to the report, the task force found “that there is a general consensus that the guidelines for the reserve components satisfy their needs for predictability and sustainability. However, given current levels of operational demand, today’s Army active National Guard, and reserve force structure will not support DoD’s policy. Nor can it be supported when planned increases in end-strength are reached.”

The report also expressed concern about the availability of Guard and reserve personnel and equipment to meet homeland security, civil support and domestic emergency requirements along with the robust overseas deployments

Various charts and graphs are included.

Friday's Miscellany for 11-16-2007

Amnesty International

• Afghanistan: Detainees Transferred to Torture: ISAF Complicity? http://web.amnesty.org/library/pdf/ASA110112007ENGLISH/$File/ASA1101107.pdf
  
• Myanmar: Briefing Paper: No Return to "Normal." http://web.amnesty.org/library/pdf/ASA160372007ENGLISH/$File/ASA1603707.pdf
• USA: Slippery Slopes and the Politics of Torture. http://web.amnesty.org/library/pdf/AMR511772007ENGLISH/$File/AMR5117707.pdf

British American Security Information Council (BASIC)

• Iran Update, No. 109. http://www.basicint.org/update/iran071113.htm

Brookings Institution

• Iran: Reality, Options, and Consequences. http://www.brookings.edu/testimony/2007/1107_iran_maloney.aspx

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Is Russia Becoming Our Enemy Again? http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16020502

CATO

• What Can the United States Learn from the Nordic Model? http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-603.pdf

The Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

• The State of the U.S. Army. http://www.cnas.org/attachments/contentmanagers/1464/CNASArmyReadiness_FactsheetNov07.pdf

Center for American Progress

• Strategic Drift in Iraq. http://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/2007/strategic_drift.html

Center for Defense Information

• Fiscal Year 2008 Defense Budget: Programs of Interest. http://www.cdi.org/program/document.cfm?DocumentID=4130&from_page=../index.cfm

Center for Security Policy

• Invest Terror-free!
  http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/home.aspx?sid=140&categoryid=140&subcategoryid=141
• Islam and the Nation-State. http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/home.aspx?sid=140&categoryid=140&subcategoryid=142

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• Issues in International Political Economy - Some Recent Examples of the Dependency/Dominance Relationship Between Mexico and the United States. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/issues200711.pdf
• Back from the Brink: Evaluating Progress in Colombia, 1999-2007. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071112-backfromthebrink-web.pdf
• PCR Project Special Briefing: Fixing Iraq's Internal Security Forces: Why is Reform of the Ministry of Interior so Hard? http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071113_fixingiraq.pdf

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• CBO's Economic Forecasting Record: 2007 Update http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdoc.cfm?index=8713
• Issues in Climate Change. http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdoc.cfm?index=8819&type=1
• The Long-Term Outlook for Health Care Spending. http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdoc.cfm?index=8758&type=1
• Testimony on Costs of Reprocessing Versus Directly Disposing of Spent Nuclear Fuel. http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdoc.cfm?index=8808&type=1

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

• Pakistan’s Tremors Worry India. http://www.cfr.org/publication/14801/pakistans_tremors_worry_india.html?breadcrumb=%2F
• Profile: Al-Qaeda in Iraq (a.k.a. al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia). http://www.cfr.org/publication/14811/profile.html?breadcrumb=%2Fpublication%2Fby_type%2Fbackgrounder

Foreign Policy Research Institute

• The Space Age That Never Arrived: A Meditation on the 50th Anniversary of Sputnik 1. http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200711.mcdougall.sputnikanniversary.html
• Dereliction of Duty Redux? http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200711.hoffman.derelictionofdutyredux.html
• The Hon. Ike Skelton on Civil-Military Relations. http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200711.skelton.civilmilitaryrelations.html

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Aviation Security: Vulnerabilities Exposed Through Covert Testing of TSA's Passenger Screening Process. Testimony. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0848t.pdf
• Border Security: Despite Progress, Weaknesses in Traveler Inspections Exist at Our Nation's Ports of Entry. Testimony. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08192t.pdf
• Combating Nuclear Terrorism: Federal Efforts to Respond to Nuclear and Radiological Threats and to Protect Key Emergency Response Facilities Could Be Strengthened. Testimony. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08285t.pdf
• Defense Acquisitions: Overcoming Challenges Key to Capitalizing on Mine Countermeasures Capabilities. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0813.pdf
• Hurricane Katrina: Ineffective FEMA Oversight of Housing Maintenance Contracts in Mississippi Resulted in Millions of Dollars of Waste and Potential Fraud. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08106.pdf
• Influenza Vaccine: Issues Related to Production, Distribution, and Public Health Messages. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0827.pdf
• Investigative Operations: Use of Covert Testing to Identify Security Vulnerabilities and Fraud, Waste, and Abuse. Testimony. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08286t.pdf
• United Nations: Progress on Management Reform Efforts Has Varied. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0884.pdf
• Uranium Enrichment: Extension of Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund May Be Needed to Cover Projected Cleanup Costs. Testimony. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08277t.pdf

The Henry L. Stimson Center

• The Cooperation Between the U.S. and Japan on Our Respective Defense Exchanges with Other Countries to Improve the International Security Environment. http://www.stimson.org/pub.cfm?id=480

Heritage Foundation

• Competitive Nuclear Energy Investment: Avoiding Past Policy Mistakes. http://www.heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/upload/bg_2086.pdf
• Targeting Terrorists. http://www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/ed111307a.cfm
• U.S. Thwarts 19 Terrorist Attacks Against America Since 9/11. http://www.heritage.org/Research/HomelandDefense/bg2085.cfm

Human Rights Watch

• Egypt: Prohibited Identities: State Interference with Religious Freedom. http://hrw.org/reports/2007/egypt1107/egypt1107webwcover.pdf
• Exported and Exposed: Abuses Against Sri Lankan Domestic Workers in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Lebanon, and the United Arab Emirates. http://hrw.org/reports/2007/srilanka1107/srilanka1107webwcover.pdf

International Alert

• A Climate of Conflict: The Links Between Climate Change, Peace and War. http://www.international-alert.org/publications/getdata.php?doctype=Pdf&id=322&docs=980

Institute for Science and International Security

• Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran. http://www.isis-online.org/publications/iran/IranIAEAreportNov15.pdf
  

International Crisis Group

• Guinea: Change on Hold. http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=5147&l=1
• Nagorno-Karabakh: Risking War. http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?l=1&id=5157
• Shiite Politics in Iraq: The Role of the Supreme Council. http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?l=1&id=5158
• Winding Back Martial Law in Pakistan. http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?l=1&id=5156

International Relations and Security Watch

• Iranian Kurdistan: A Simmering Cauldron. http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=18342

Jamestown Foundation

• China Means Business in Iraq. http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/uploads/cb_007_021.pdf

Lexington Institute

• Asian Security: Japan Needs Better Tools to do Its Part. http://lexingtoninstitute.org/1195.shtml

Physicians for Social Responsibility

• War Is Not the Answer: The Medical and Public Health Consequences of Attacking Iran. http://www.psr.org/site/DocServer/WarIsNotTheAnswer.pdf?docID=2181

Progressive Policy Institute

• Federal Terrorism Court. http://www.ppionline.org/documents/TerrorismCourt111407.pdf
• Fixing the Department of Homeland Security. http://www.ppionline.org/documents/FixingDHS11142007.pdf

Rand

• Developing Robust Border Security Technologies to Protect Against Diverse and Adaptive Threats. http://www.rand.org/pubs/testimonies/2007/RAND_CT294.pdf
• Stealing the Sword: Limiting Terrorist Use of Advanced Conventional Weapons. http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2007/RAND_MG510.pdf

Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College

• The "People" in the PLA: Recruitment, Training, and Education in China's 80-Year-Old Military. http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB834.pdf
• On the Uses of Cultural Knowledge. http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB817.pdf
• The Evolution of U.S.-Turkish Relations in a Transatlantic Context. http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB825.pdf

Swiss Peace

• Private Security Companies and Local Populations: An Exploratory Study of Afghanistan and Angola. http://www.swisspeace.ch/typo3/fileadmin/user_upload/pdf/PSC.pdf

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• The PKK Redux: Implications of a Growing Threat. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2681
• How to Handle Terrorist Suspects: No Easy Answer. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2680
• Britain and Zionism: Then and Now. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2679

U.S. China and Security Economic Review Commission

• 2007 Annual report http://www.uscc.gov/

REPORT - U.S. China and Security Economic Review Commission

U.S. China and Security Economic Review Commission released its 2007 report yesterday. While the full report won’t be posted on their site until Monday [Nov 19^th] several parts, including the Intro, the Executive summary and the Commission’s Recommendations from the latest report are available now.

The main commission website is http://www.uscc.gov/

The Intro which gives the good news/bad news view -- http://www.uscc.gov/annual_report/2008/intro.pdf

Executive Summary -- http://www.uscc.gov/annual_report/2008/executive_summary.pdf

Commission Recommendations -- http://www.uscc.gov/annual_report/2008/Comprehensive%20Recoms.pdf

Previous reports:

• 2007 [June] -- http://www.uscc.gov/annual_report/2007/07_annual_report.php
• 2006 -- http://www.uscc.gov/annual_report/2006/06_annual_report.php
• 2005 -- http://www.uscc.gov/annual_report/05_annual_report.php
• 2004 -- http://www.uscc.gov/annual_report/04_annual_report.php
• 2002 -- http://www.uscc.gov/annual_report/02_annual_report.php

REPORT -- Cost of the Wars

As noted in the news -- the Joint Economic Committee Majority Staff has just published a report on the Cost of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. They estimate it could exceed $3.5 trillion.

"November 13: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) will join Joint Economic Committee (JEC) Chairman Charles E. Schumer (D-NY), and JEC Vice Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) today released a new report exposing the hidden costs of the war in Iraq. The Joint Economic Committee report investigates the costs of the war in Iraq that are not included in direct budgetary appropriations, including long term veteran’s health care, foregone investment, oil market disruptions and interest payments on borrowed war funding. The JEC estimates these costs could total in the trillions of dollars."

Joint Economic Committee -- War at Any Price?—the Total Economic Costs of the War Beyond the Federal Budget and it is available at http://jec.senate.gov/Documents/Reports/11.13.07IraqEconomicCostsReport.pdf

The press release includes a brief summary
http://jec.senate.gov/Documents/Releases/11.13.07IraqReportRelease.pdf

Individual charts are available as follows:

• The American Family Will Bear Heavy Burden to Pay for Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan http://jec.senate.gov/charts/Iraq%20Economic%20Cost%20Report/Chart2.pdf
• With No Change in Course, Total Costs Incurred per Family Reach Almost $50,000 by 2017 http://jec.senate.gov/charts/Iraq%20Economic%20Cost%20Report/chart1.pdf
• The Projected Interest Costs of Iraq War Alone are Higher than the Cost of Children's Health Program and Health Research and Training http://jec.senate.gov/charts/Iraq%20Economic%20Cost%20Report/chart3.pdf
• Taxpayer Spending on Iraq War vs. Federal Spending on Other Priorities http://jec.senate.gov/charts/Iraq%20Economic%20Cost%20Report/chart4.pdf
• Breaking Down the Costs of War in Iraq http://jec.senate.gov/charts/Iraq%20Economic%20Cost%20Report/chart5.pdf
• Total Economic Costs Under Future Scenarios http://jec.senate.gov/charts/Iraq%20Economic%20Cost%20Report/chart%20a-1.pdf
• State-by-State Heat Map: States Bear Billions in Iraq War Costs http://jec.senate.gov/charts/Iraq%20Economic%20Cost%20Report/state%20by%20state%20new.pdf

The response from the Joint Economic Committee Republicans can be found at http://www.house.gov/jec/news/2007/Nov/JEC%20GOP%20Response.pdf

They say the report should be withdrawn -- that it is politically motivated and filled with errors and poor methodology. A second press release from them indicates that some errors were quietly corrected on the web version. http://www.house.gov/jec/news/2007/Nov/JEC%20GOP%20Response%2011-14.pdf

Friday's Miscellany for 11-09-2007

American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

• Numbers [some brief opinion poll results including progress in Iraq and the French]. http://american.com/archive/2007/november-11-07/numbers-11-9-07

Amnesty International

• A Guide to the African Commission Guide on Human and Peoples' Rights. http://web.amnesty.org/library/pdf/IOR630052007ENGLISH/$File/IOR6300507.pdf
• Rwanda: Suspects Must not be Transferred to Rwandan Courts for Trial Until it is Demonstrated That Trials Will Comply with International Standards of Justice. http://web.amnesty.org/library/pdf/AFR470132007ENGLISH/$File/AFR4701307.pdf

Arms Control Association

• A Witches Brew? Evaluating Iran's Uranium-Enrichment Progress. http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2007_11/Albright.asp

British American Security Information Council (BASIC)

• Iran Update, No. 108. http://www.basicint.org/update/iran071102.htm
• Afghanistan Update. http://www.basicint.org/update/AFG071102.htm

Brookings Institution

• Catastrophe or a Last Chance in Pakistan? http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2007/1105_pakistan_cohen.aspx

Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute

• Canada as the "Emerging Energy Superpower": Testing the Case. http://www.cdfai.org/PDF/CDFAIConference2007.pdf

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Issues in U.S.-India Nuclear Cooperation. http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=19697&prog=zgp&proj=znpp,zsa

Center for American Progress

• The Forgotten Front [Afghanistan]. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/11/pdf/afghanistan_report.pdf
• A Race Against Time in Eastern Chad. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/11/pdf/enough11.pdf
• Think Again: Torturous Debate over Waterboarding. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/11/torturous_debate.html

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

• The Age of Consequences: The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications of Global Climate Change. http://www.cnas.org/attachments/contentmanagers/1278/CSIS-CNAS_AgeofConsequences_October07.pdf

Center for Defense Information

• Afghanistan Update: Oct. 1-31, 2007. http://www.cdi.org/program/document.cfm?DocumentID=4137&from_page=../index.cfm

Center for Security Policy

• "Bush Doctrine 2.0?" http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/home.aspx?sid=140&categoryid=140&subcategoryid=141
• America's blunder, Chavez's Success. http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/home.aspx?sid=140&categoryid=140&subcategoryid=142
• Winning Iraq. http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/home.aspx?sid=140&categoryid=140&subcategoryid=142
• Get Tough on Suicide Bombings. http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/home.aspx?sid=140&categoryid=140&subcategoryid=142

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• Armed Nation Building: The Real Challenge in Afghanistan. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071107_afghanchall.pdf
• The Age of Consequences: The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications of Global Climate Change. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071105_ageofconsequences.pdf
• China's Civil Society Organizations: What Future in the Health Sector. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071102_chinacivilsociety.pdf
• CSIS Commission on Smart Power: A Smarter More Secure America. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071106_csissmartpowerreport.pdf
• China's Civil Society Organizations: What Future in the Health Sector: A Report of the Task Force on HIV/AIDS Delegation to China, June 13-20, 2007. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071102_chinacivilsociety.pdf

Command and Control Research Program (CCRP)

• International C2 Journal [Fall 2007] http://www.dodccrp.org/html4/journal_v1n2.html Special Issue: "Decision Support for Network-Centric Command and Control"
  o Automation Architecture for Single Operator, Multiple UAV Command and Control
  o Custom Work Aids for Distributed Command and Control Teams: A Key to Enabling Highly Effective Teams
  o Adaptive Automation for Human-Robot Teaming in Future Command and Control Systems
  o Improving Planning and Replanning: Using a Formal Grammar to Automate Processing of Command and Control Information for Decision Support

Combat Studies Institute

• The Other End of the Spear: The Toothto-Tail Ratio (T3R) in Modern Military Operations. http://usacac.army.mil/CAC/csi/RandP/OP23.pdf

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

• Afghanistan’s Painkiller. http://www.cfr.org/publication/14713/afghanistans_painkiller.html?breadcrumb=%2F
• The Future of the U.S. Military. http://www.cfr.org/publication/14721/future_of_the_us_military.html
• Inequalities in Asia's Giants. http://www.cfr.org/publication/14706/inequalities_in_asias_giants.html?breadcrumb=%2Fpublication%2Fby_type%2Fbackgrounder
• Planning for Post-Mugabe Zimbabwe. http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/Zimbabwe_CSR31.pdf
• U.S. Officials Mull Pakistan Position. http://www.cfr.org/publication/14709/us_mulls_pakistan.html?breadcrumb=%2F

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

• D-2008-012 Distribution of Funds and the Validity of Obligations for the Management of the Afghanistan Security Forces Fund - Phase I, November 5, 2007. http://www.dodig.mil/Audit/reports/FY08/08-012.pdf

FBI

• Terrorism 2002-2005. http://www.fbi.gov/publications/terror/terrorism2002_2005.pdf

Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

• Food Protection Plan: An Integrated Strategy for Protecting the Nation's Food Supply. http://www.fda.gov/oc/initiatives/advance/food/plan.pdf

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

• The Continued Retreat of Democracy in Postcommunist Europe and Eurasia? http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200711.basora.retreatdemocracypostcommunist.html
• The Marines: Premier Expeditionary Warriors. http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200711.hoffman.marinesexpeditionarywarriors.html
• Cicero and Tacitus on Empire: The Roman Tradition and American Conceptions of Foreign Policy. http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200710.kopff.cicerotacitusempire.html

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Border Security: Despite Progress, Weaknesses in Traveler Inspections Exist at Our Nation's Ports of Entry. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08219.pdf
• Global War on Terrorism: DOD Needs to Take Action to Encourage Fiscal Discipline and Optimize the Use of Tools Intended to Improve GWOT Cost Reporting. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0868.pdf
• Securing U.S. Nuclear Material: DOE Has Made Little Progress Consolidating and Disposing of Special Nuclear Material. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0872.pdf
• State Department: Transparent Cost Estimates Needed to Support Passport Execution Fee Decisions. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0863.pdf
• Terrorist Watch List Screening: Recommendations to Promote a Comprehensive and Coordinated Approach to Terrorist-Related Screening. Testimony. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08253t.pdf
• Trade Adjustment Assistance: States Have Fewer Training Funds Available than Labor Estimates When Both Expenditures and Obligations Are Considered. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08165.pdf

Heritage Foundation

• The Advantages of Expanding the Nuclear Navy. http://www.heritage.org/Research/HomelandDefense/wm1693.cfm
• The Bush–Sarkozy White House Summit: A U.S.–French Entente Cordiale. http://www.heritage.org/Research/Europe/upload/wm_1692.pdf
• Europe's Strategic Dependence on Russian Energy. http://www.heritage.org/Research/Europe/upload/bg_2083.pdf
• Musharraf's Emergency Rule Will Only Fuel Pakistan Crisis. http://www.heritage.org/Research/AsiaandthePacific/wm1691.cfm
• Missile Defense: Debunking Arguments Against the Third Site in Eastern Europe. http://www.heritage.org/Research/Europe/upload/wm_1694.pdf

Human Rights Watch

• Nowhere to Turn: Torture and Ill-treatment in Uzbekistan. http://hrw.org/reports/2007/uzbekistan1107/uzbekistan1107webwcover.pdf
• Rehabilitation Required: Russia’s Human Rights Obligation to Provide Evidence-based Drug Dependence Treatment. http://hrw.org/reports/2007/russia1107/russia1107webwcover.pdf

Interagency Working Group on Import Safety

• Action Plan for Import Safety. http://www.importsafety.gov/report/actionplan.pdf

International Crisis Group

• Ethiopia and Eritrea: Stopping the Slide to War. http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/getfile.cfm?id=3170&tid=5136&l=1
• Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission. http://www.un.org/NewLinks/eebcarbitration/
• Sri Lanka: Sinhala Nationalism and the Elusive Southern Consensus. http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/getfile.cfm?id=3173&tid=5144&type=pdf&l=1

James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies

• Israeli Airstrike in Syria: International Reactions. http://www.cns.miis.edu/pubs/week/071101.htm

Lexington Institute

• Crusading Navy Secretary Cancels 300-Ship Fleet. http://lexingtoninstitute.org/1193.shtml

Rand

• Addressing the Uncertain Future of Preserving the Past: Towards a Robust Strategy for Digital Archiving and Preservation. http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2007/RAND_TR510.pdf
• Building Partner Capabilities for Coalition Operations. http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2007/RAND_MG635.pdf
• Negotiating with Iran. Testimony. http://www.rand.org/pubs/testimonies/2007/RAND_CT293.pdf
• Terrorism Risk Modeling for Intelligence Analysis and Infrastructure Protection. http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2007/RAND_TR386.pdf
• Testimony before the French Paper Commission on Defense and National Security. http://www.rand.org/pubs/testimonies/2007/RAND_CT292.pdf

Strategic Studies Institute

• The Eastern Dimension of America's New European Allies. http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=813
• Transformation Under Fire: A Historical Case Study with Modern Parallels. http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=810
• The United States and ASEAN-China Relations: All Quiet on the Southeast Asian Front. http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=812
• Working and Playing Well with Others: A Strategy-Policy Mismatch in Export Controls. http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=835

UN Office of Drugs and Crime

• 2007 World Drug Report. http://www.unodc.org/pdf/research/wdr07/WDR_2007.pdf

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• America's Future Direction in Iraq. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC07.php?CID=364
• The Bush Administration and the Peace Process: Annapolis and Beyond. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC07.php?CID=371
• Israel-Hizballah-Syria: Lessons from the Last War, Preventing the Next One. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC07.php?CID=365
• Kuwait: Keystone of U.S. Gulf Policy. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/download.php?file=PolicyFocus76.pdf
• Pakistan and the War on Terror. Washington Institute for Near East Policy. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2677