Friday's Miscellany 12-28-2007

American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

• A Chance to Rein in North Korea. http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.27276,filter.all/pub_detail.asp
• At the Foggy Bottom of the Iraq Story. http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.27281,filter.all/pub_detail.asp

Brookings

• Bent but Not Broken: The Military Challenge for the Next Commander-in-Chief. http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/Projects/Opportunity08/PB_MilitaryReadiness_PSinger.pdf
• Germany and Iran After the National Intelligence Estimate. http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2008/01_iran_gordon.aspx
• Military Readiness [Video] http://www.brookings.edu/multimedia/video/2007/1219_issues_singer.aspx
• Terrorism in Pakistan. http://www.brookings.edu/interviews/2007/1227_pakistan_riedel.aspx
  

Center for American Progress

• Pakistan Front and Center: Bhutto Assassination Adds to Crisis. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/12/bhutto_assassination.html
• Public Opinion Snapshot: Military Families Are Fed Up. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/12/po_troops.html
• You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch: Debt is Haunting the American Consumer and Harming the Economy. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/12/pdf/grinch.pdf

Center for Defense Information (CDI)

• Policing Terrorism on the Internet. http://www.cdi.org/program/document.cfm?DocumentID=4162&StartRow=1&ListRows=10&appendURL=&Orderby=D.DateLastUpdated&ProgramID=39&from_page=index.cfm

Center for Security Policy

• Bigotry, Terror Masked as Faith. http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/Modules/NewsManager/ShowSectionNews.aspx?CategoryID=66&SubCategoryID=45&NewsID=15998
• China's Assymetrical Strategy. http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/Modules/NewsManager/ShowSectionNews.aspx?CategoryID=66&SubCategoryID=45&NewsID=16027
• The Colombian Hostage Crisis. http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/Modules/NewsManager/ShowSectionNews.aspx?CategoryID=66&SubCategoryID=189&NewsID=16029

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• Commentary: The Security Impact of the Bhutto Assassination by Anthony Cordesman. http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_pubs/task,view/id,4257/type,1/
• Critical Questions: The UN Climate Change Conference. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071220_cq_bali.pdf

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• The Health Care System for Veterans: An Interim Report. http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdoc.cfm?index=8892&type=1

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Natural Disasters: Public Policy Options for Changing the Federal Role in Natural Catastrophe Insurance. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d087.pdf

Henry L. Stimson Center

• Cross-Strait Relations: In Search of Peace. http://www.stimson.org/eastasia/pdf/CLM23ARdec15.pdf

Heritage Foundation

• Omnibusted: The Top 10 Worst Problems with the Omnibus Spending Bill. http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/wm1760.cfm
• Pakistan: Bhutto Assassination Underscores Need for Political Reconciliation. http://www.heritage.org/Research/AsiaandthePacific/wm1761.cfm
• Pakistan: Defense and Security Challenges. http://www.heritage.org/Research/AsiaandthePacific/hl1055.cfm
• The U.S. Must Be Resolute to Avoid Harmful Consequences of the Bali Global Warming Conference. http://www.heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/wm1759.cfm

Human Rights Watch

• Hidden in the Mealie Meal: Gender-Based Abuses and Women’s HIV Treatment in Zambia. http://hrw.org/reports/2007/zambia1207/

National Security Archive [GWU]

• Rendition in the Southern Cone: Operation Condor Documents Revealed from the Paraguayan 'Archive of Terror' http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB239d/index.htm

Rand

• Combat Pair: The Evolution of Air Force-Navy Integration in Strike Warfare. http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2007/RAND_MG655.pdf
• Developing Robust Border Security Technologies to Protect Against Diverse and Adaptive Threats: Addendum. http://www.rand.org/pubs/testimonies/2007/RAND_CT294.1.pdf
• Main testimony. http://www.rand.org/pubs/testimonies/2007/RAND_CT294.pdf

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• The Palestinians: Between State Failure and Civil War. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/download.php?file=PolicyFocus78ForWeb.pdf

World Security Institute
China Security, v. 3, no. 4, Autumn 2007 - Maritime Security
http://www.chinasecurity.us/News_View.asp?NewsID=81
OR http://www.wsichina.org/cs8.pdf

• The articles are:
• “China and the United States on the High Seas” by Eric McVandon
• “Engagement, Caution” by Yang Yi
• “New U.S. Maritime Strategy: Initial Chinese Responses” by Andrew S. Erickson
• “China’s New Military Elite” by Li Cheng & Scott W. Harold
• “China’s Reform: Approaching a Dead End” by Liu Junning
• “The Panda and the Peacock” by Chietigj Bajpaee
• Situation Report – China’s Nuclear Future

Friday's Miscellany 12-21-2007

American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

• Reflections on the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran. http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.27255/pub_detail.asp
• Amnesty International Spain shamed by police. http://www.amnesty.org/en/alfresco_asset/61d9a8ca-a2ef-11dc-8d74-6f45f39984e5/eur410072007en.pdf
  

Brookings

• Energy Security, Energy Urgency: Key Issues Facing the Next President. [Video] http://www.brookings.edu/multimedia/video/2007/1218_energy_lugar.aspx
• Humanitarian Imperatives are Transforming Sovereignty. http://www.brookings.edu/articles/2008/winter_humanitarian_cohen.aspx
  
• The State of the U.S. Economy [Video] http://www.brookings.edu/multimedia/video/2007/1219_economy.aspx

Center for American Progress

• The Lessons of Bali: The U.S. Needs to Lead on Global Warming. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/12/bali_lessons.html
• Nuclear Meltdown: Rebuilding a Coherent Policy Toward Iran. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/12/iran_event.html
• The Pakistan Challenge: The United States Cannot Fail Here. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/12/pakistan_challenge.html
• Quality of Life in the Military. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/12/pdf/military_life.pdf
• We Are the Web. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/12/we_are_the_web.html

Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS)

• Capacity Building through Research Partnership - A Case Study on Decentralisation and Governance in Northern Albania. http://se1.isn.ch/serviceengine/FileContent?serviceID=PublishingHouse&fileid=E66AD10F-0E5E-8EB2-22E9-A694FF170E10&lng=en

Center for Defense Information (CDI)

• "A Big Image Problem Down There": Prospects for an African Headquarters for AFRICOM. http://www.cdi.org/pdfs/reedAFRICOM.pdf
  
• Ten Years After Ottawa. http://www.cdi.org/program/document.cfm?DocumentID=4161&from_page=../index.cfm
• 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

• Not on our dime. http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/home.aspx?sid=140&categoryid=140&subcategoryid=141
• Bigotry, terror masked as faith. http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/home.aspx?sid=140&categoryid=140&subcategoryid=142

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

• Financial Action on the FY 2008 Defense Appropriations Act. http://www.csbaonline.org/4Publications/PubLibrary/U.20071220.Financial_Action/U.20071220.Financial_Action.pdf

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• Critical Questions: Turkish Airstrikes in Northern Iraq. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071219_cq_brannen_turkey.pdf
• Dollars and Bullets: The Role of US Aid in a Strategy for Iraq. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071217_iraq_aid_strategy.pdf
• Planning for Stability Operations: The Use of Capabilities-Based Approaches. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071023-planstabops.pdf
• Progress in Iraq: The December Report on Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071220_progress_in_iraq.pdf
• Water and Energy Futures in an Urbanized Asia: Sustaining the Tiger. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071210_petersonwaterenergy-web.pdf

Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

• Al-Qa’ida’s Foreign Fighters in Iraq: A First Look at the Sinjar Records.
• Main report – http://www.ctc.usma.edu/harmony/pdf/CTCForeignFighter.19.Dec07.pdf
• Translated records – http://www.ctc.usma.edu/harmony/FF-Bios-Trans.pdf
• Original records -- http://www.ctc.usma.edu/harmony/Foreign_Fighter_Bios-Orig.pdf

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• Research on the Comparative Effectiveness of Medical Treatments: Issues and Options for an Expanded Federal Role. http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdoc.cfm?index=8891&type=1

Department of Defense

• Department of Defense Foreign Sources of Supply: Assessment of the U.S. Defense Industrial Base (Report Required by Section 812 of the National Defense Authorization Act for FY06) http://www.acq.osd.mil/ip/docs/812_report_fy06.pdf
• Earlier reports. http://www.acq.osd.mil/ip/ip_products.html
• Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq - Dec 2007. http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/pdfs/FINAL-SecDef%20Signed-20071214.pdf
• Earlier reports are available at http://www.defenselink.mil/home/features/Iraq_Reports/index.html
• Unmanned Systems Roadmap 2007-2032 http://www.acq.osd.mil/usd/Unmanned%20Systems%20Roadmap.2007-2032.pdf

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

• Democratic Transitions: Case Studies from Asia. http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200712.ginsburg.democratictransitionscasestudiesasia.html

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Air Traffic Control: FAA Reports Progress in System Acquisitions, but Changes in Performance Measurement Could Improve Usefulness of Information. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0842.pdf
• Budget Issues: Accrual Budgeting Useful in Certain Areas but Does Not Provide Sufficient Information for Reporting on Our Nation's Longer-Term Fiscal Challenge. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08206.pdf
• A Call for Stewardship: Enhancing the Federal Government's Ability to Address Key Fiscal and Other 21st Century Challenges. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0893sp.pdf
• Coastal Wetlands: Lessons Learned from Past Efforts in Louisiana Could Help Guide Future Restoration and Protection. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08130.pdf
• Continuity of Operations: Selected Agencies Tested Various Capabilities during 2006 Governmentwide Exercise. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08185.pdf
• The Democratic Republic of the Congo: Systematic Assessment Is Needed to Determine Agencies' Progress toward U.S. Policy Objectives. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08188.pdf
  
• Department of Veterans Affairs: Actions Needed to Strengthen VA's Foreclosed Property Management Contractor Oversight. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0860.pdf
• DOD Travel Improper Payments: Fiscal Year 2006 Reporting Was Incomplete and Planned Improvement Efforts Face Challenges. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0816.pdf
• Economic Sanctions: Agencies Face Competing Priorities in Enforcing the U.S. Embargo on Cuba. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0880.pdf
• Force Structure: Better Management Controls Are Needed to Oversee the Army's Modular Force and Expansion Initiatives and Improve Accountability for Results. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08145.pdf
• Military Health Care: Cost Data Indicate That TRICARE Reserve Select Premiums Exceeded the Costs of Providing Program Benefits. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08104.pdf
• Plum Island Animal Disease Center: DHS Has Made Significant Progress Implementing Security Recommendations, but Several Recommendations Remain Open. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08306r.pdf
• Rebuilding Iraq: International Donor Pledges for Reconstruction Efforts in Iraq. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08365r.pdf
• Veterans' Benefits: Improved Operational Controls and Management Data Would Enhance VBA's Disability Reevaluation Process. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0875.pdf

Henry L. Stimson Center

• Thai-U.S. Economic Partnership: Opportunities and Limitations. http://www.stimson.org/pub.cfm?id=487

Heritage Foundation

• The Omnibus: "Stealth" Security Provision is Unnecessary. http://www.heritage.org/Research/HomelandSecurity/upload/wm_1753.pdf
• The Pentagon's Robots: Arming the Future. http://www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/upload/bg_2093.pdf
• Omnibus Eliminates Funding for the Reliable Replacement Warhead Program. http://www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/upload/wm_1755.pdf

Human Rights Watch

• Crossing the Line: Georgia’s Violent Dispersal of Protestors and Raid on Imedi Television. http://hrw.org/reports/2007/georgia1207/georgia1207webwcover.pdf
  
• Destroying Legality: Pakistan’s Crackdown on Lawyers and Judges. http://hrw.org/reports/2007/pakistan1207/pakistan1207webwcover.pdf
• Shutting Out the Critics: Restrictive Laws Used to Repress Civil Society in Jordan. http://hrw.org/reports/2007/jordan1207/jordan1207webwcover.pdf

International Crisis Group

• Georgia: Sliding towards Authoritarianism? http://www.crisisgroup.org/library/documents/189_georgia___sliding_towards_authoritarianism.pdf
• Inside Gaza: The Challenge of Clans and Families. http://www.crisisgroup.org/library/documents/middle_east___north_africa/arab_israeli_conflict/71_inside_gaza___the_challenge_of_clans_and_families.pdf
• Nepal: Peace Postponed. http://www.crisisgroup.org/library/documents/asia/south_asia/b72_nepal___peace_postponed.pdf
• Peacebuilding in Haiti: Including Haitians from Abroad. http://www.crisisgroup.org/library/documents/24_peacebuilding_in_haiti___including_haitians_from_abroad.pdf
• South Korea’s Election: What to Expect from President Lee. http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=5240&l=1

Jamestown Foundation

• The Al-Qaeda Triangle [streaming video of conference] http://www.jamestown.org/events_details.php?event_id=43
• Reviving a Forgotten Threat: The PKK in Nagorno-Karabakh. http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2373866
• China Brief Volume 7, Issue 23 (December 13, 2007) http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/uploads/cb_007_023a.pdf
• China Exerts Administrative Control Over Disputed South China Sea Islets
• Iran’s Nuclear Act and U.S.-China Relations: The View from Beijing
• The Iranian Nuclear Question in U.S.-China Relations
• China’s Looming Financial Reform Challenges
• The Kuomintang’s Security Policy and Taiwan’s 2008 Legislative and Presidential Elections

• Terrorism Monitor Volume 5, Issue 24 (December 20, 2007) http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/uploads/TM_005_024.pdf
• Reviving a Forgotten Threat: The PKK in Nagorno-Karabak
• hIs the “Politicization” of the Kurdish Struggle in Turkey a Security Threat?
• Al-Qaeda Adapts its Methods in Iraq as Part of a Global Strategy
• Oil and Jihad in Central Africa: The Rise and Fall of Uganda’s ADF
• Reviving a Forgotten Threat: The PKK in Nagorno-Karabakh
• Is the “Politicization” of the Kurdish Struggle in Turkey a Security Threat?
• Al-Qaeda Adapts its Methods in Iraq as Part of a Global Strategy
• Oil and Jihad in Central Africa: The Rise and Fall of Uganda’s ADF
  

Kaiser Family Foundation/Pew Global Health Survey

• A Global Look at Public Perceptions of Health Problems, Priorities, and Donors: The Kaiser/Pew Global Health Survey http://www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/7716.cfm
• REPORT -- http://www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/upload/7716.pdf

Lexington Institute

• Bush-Cheney Security Agenda Made Steady Progress in 2007. http://lexingtoninstitute.org/1209.shtml

Pew Internet & American Life Project

• Digital Footprints: Online Identity Management and Search in the Age of Transparency. http://pewinternet.org/PPF/r/229/report_display.asp
• Report - http://pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Digital_Footprints.pdf
• Questionnaire - http://pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIAL_Dec06_Tracking_FINAL_Topline.pdf

Project for Excellence in Journalism

• The Portrait from Iraq - How the Press Has Covered Events on the Ground. http://journalism.org/files/Iraq%20Content_Web%20version.pdf

RAND

• Modernizing the Federal Government: Paying for Performance. http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/2007/RAND_OP213.pdf
• Police-Community Relations in Cincinnati: Year Three Evaluation Report. http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2007/RAND_TR535.pdf
• Year One report - http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2005/RAND_TR333.pdf
• Year Two report - http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2006/RAND_TR445.pdf
• Preparing Hospitals and Clinics for the Psychological Consequences of a Terrorist Incident or Other Public Health Emergency. http://www.ladhs.org/ems/disaster/trainingIndex.htm
• Preparing Los Angeles CountyDepartment of Mental Health Staff to Respond to Hospitals and Clinics Following Large-Scale Emergencies. http://www.ladhs.org/ems/disaster/trainingIndex.htm

Trust for America's Health

• Ready or Not?: Protecting the Public’s Health from Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism 2007. http://healthyamericans.org/reports/bioterror07/BioTerrorReport2007.pdf

UN Human Development Programme

• Human Development Report 2007/2008. http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/hdr_20072008_en_complete.pdf
• Previous reports. http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/

Washington Institute for Near East Policy A Middle East

• Study Tour: Perspectives from Amman, Jerusalem, Ramallah, and Tel Aviv. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2699
• A Middle East Study Tour: Perspectives from Turkey. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2698
• An 'All Elements of Power' Strategy for Combating Terrorism. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2697
• The European View on Iran: Fallout from the New U.S. Intelligence Estimate. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2696
• Aid to the Palestinians: The Role of Oil-Rich Arab States. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2695

Al-Qa’ida’s Foreign Fighters in Iraq: A First Look at the Sinjar Records.

The Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) at West Point has released a new report -- Al-Qa’ida’s Foreign Fighters in Iraq: A First Look at the Sinjar Records. According to their write-up, this report is a preliminary analysis of over 600 individual records containing background information on foreign fighters entering Iraq via Syria over the past year. This information was compiled from newly released information from captured al-Qa'ida documents maintained in the DoD Harmony Data Base.

The report can be downloaded at http://www.ctc.usma.edu/harmony/pdf/CTCForeignFighter.19.Dec07.pdf
the translated records are available at
http://www.ctc.usma.edu/harmony/FF-Bios-Trans.pdf
and the original records can be found at http://www.ctc.usma.edu/harmony/Foreign_Fighter_Bios-Orig.pdf

Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq - Dec 2007

The latest quarterly report to Congress on the stability and security in Iraq has been posted. The December 2007 Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq report can be found at http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/pdfs/FINAL-SecDef%20Signed-20071214.pdf

Previous reports are available from http://www.defenselink.mil/home/features/Iraq_Reports/index.html

Umanned Systems Roadmap

OSD has released its new Unmanned Systems Roadmap, 2007-2023. This is the first integrated report and includes Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Unmanned Ground Systems and Unmanned Maritime Systems.

The report is available directly at
http://www.acq.osd.mil/usd/Unmanned%20Systems%20Roadmap.2007-2032.pdf

Some highlights from the executive summary:

As of October 2006, coalition Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs), exclusive of hand-launched systems, had flown almost 400,000 flight hours in support of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) had responded to over 11,000 Improvised Explosive Device (IED) situations, and Unmanned Maritime Systems (UMSs) had provided security to ports. As a result of these successes, the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) emphasized the importance of unmanned systems in the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT).

Unmanned systems are highly desired by combatant commanders (COCOMs) for the many roles these systems can fulfill. Tasks such as mine detection; signals intelligence; precision target designation; chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, explosive (CBRNE) reconnaissance; and communications and data relay rank high among the COCOMs' interests. These unmanned capabilities have helped reduce the complexity and time lag in the "sensor" component of the sensor-to-shooter chain for prosecuting "actionable intelligence." Unmanned systems are changing the conduct of military operations in the GWOT by providing unrelenting pursuit combined with the elimination of threats to friendly forces; including injury, capture, or death.

New CTC Journal on Combating Terrorism issues

An interesting new online journal from the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point.

CTC Sentinel, the new monthly online journal of the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point is available at the following link: http://www.ctc.usma.edu/sentinel/default.asp

Articles in this issue include:

- "Abu Musab al-Suri's Critique of Hard Line Salafists in the Jihadist Current" by Brynjar Lia
- "Countering Terrorist Use of the Web as a Weapon" by Bruce Hoffman
- "Al-Qaida Losing Ground in Iraq" by Mohammed M. Hafez
- "Al-Qaida's Resurgence in Pakistan" by Bruce Riedel
- "The Saudi Process of Repatriating and Reintegrating Guantanamo Returnees" by Christopher Boucek
- "Leading Egyptian Jihadist Sayyid Imam Renounces Violence" by Jarret Brachman
- "Securing Yemen's Cooperation in the Second Phase of the War on al-Qaida" by Gregory Johnsen
- "Southern Thailand Insurgency Fails to Achieve Popular Support" by Peter Chalk

President Bush reported to Congress on Force Deployments

The text of the letter from President Bush to Congress regarding the status of force deployments can be found at the White House page. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/12/20071214-6.html

The Armed Forces Press Service article on this - "Bush Reports to Congress on Scope of Force Deployments" can be found at http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id48422

Friday's Miscellany 12-14-2007

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

• What’s Wrong with Fusion Centers. http://www.aclu.org/pdfs/privacy/fusioncenter_20071212.pdf

American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

• Entrepreneurial Philanthropy in the Developing World: A New Face for America, a Challenge to Foreign Aid. http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.27220,filter.all/pub_detail.asp
• U.S. Trade Policy: The Emergence of Regional and Bilateral Alternatives to Multilateralism. http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.27225,filter.all/pub_detail.asp

Atlantic Council of the United States

• Cyber Attack: A Risk Management Primer for CEOs and Directors. http://www.acus.org/docs/071212_Cyber_Attack_Report.pdf

British American Security Information Council (BASIC)

• Updated NIE Implies Constructive Pragmatism in Tehran. http://www.basicint.org/pubs/Notes/BN071207.htm
• Afghanistan Update. http://www.basicint.org/update/AFG071203.htm

Brookings Institution

• Detention Retention: Are Guantanamo Detainees All Innocent? http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2007/1207_courts_wittes.aspx
• Humanitarian Imperatives are Transforming Sovereignty. http://www.brookings.edu/articles/2008/winter_humanitarian_cohen.aspx
• Reforming U.S. Immigration Policy: Open New Pathways to Integration. http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/Projects/Opportunity08/PB_Immigration_Singer.pdf

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Arab Reform Bulletin: December 2007. http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/fullissue-12-11-07.pdf
• Assessing the NIE. http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=19747&prog=zgp&proj=zme,znpp
• Financing Energy Efficiency in China. http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/clean_energy_final1.pdf
• Incumbent Regimes and the “King’s Dilemma” in the Arab World: Promise and Threat of Managed Reform. http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/cp88_ruling_parties_final1.pdf

Center for a New American Security

• Averting the System Reboot. Innovations and Critical Lessons from Iraq Must be Preserved. http://www.cnas.org/en/art/?342

Center for American Progress

• 40 Reasons to Reengage in Afghanistan. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/12/40reasons.html
• A Diplomatic Surge for Northern Uganda. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/12/northern_uganda_surge.html
• The Future of Kosovo. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/12/future_of_kosovo.html
• Six Questions for Secretary Gates. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/12/gates_questions.html
• Restoring American Military Power: Toward a New Progressive Defense Strategy for America. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/12/pdf/defense_strategy.pdf
• Revamping U.S. Foreign Assistance. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/12/pdf/beyond_assistence.pdf
• Revitalizing the Transatlantic Partnership: A Speech by John D. Podesta in Hamburg, Germany on November 14, 2007. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/12/podesta_speech.html
• Think Again: The Nth Time is Farce: Neocons Attack the NIE, Yet Again. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/12/think_again_neocons_attack.html
• Virtuous Circle: Strengthening Broad-Based Global Progress in Living Standards. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/12/pdf/virtuous_circle.pdf

Center for Democracy Technology

• Hiding in Plain Sight: Why Important Government Information Cannot Be Found Through Commercial Search Engines. http://www.cdt.org/righttoknow/search/Searchability.pdf

Center for Security Policy

• Condi's African Holiday. http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/home.aspx?sid=140&categoryid=140&subcategoryid=142
• The Dangers of Bolivia's Constitutional Reforms. http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/Home.aspx?SID=140&SubCategoryID=142
• In Russia, a Landslide to Tyranny. http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/home.aspx?sid=140&categoryid=140&subcategoryid=142
• Israel: Apartheid, Not Peace. http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/home.aspx?sid=140&categoryid=140&subcategoryid=142
• On Iran, Bolton Tells It Like It Is. http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/home.aspx?sid=140&categoryid=140&subcategoryid=142
• Questionable Intelligence on Iran. http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/Home.aspx?SID=140&SubCategoryID=142
• Sharia's Trojan Horse. http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/home.aspx?sid=140&categoryid=140&subcategoryid=141
• Surprise in Venezuela. http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/home.aspx?sid=140&categoryid=140&subcategoryid=142
• Victory Via Fuel Choice. http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/home.aspx?sid=140&categoryid=140&subcategoryid=141
• Where's Our Churchill? http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/home.aspx?sid=140&categoryid=140&subcategoryid=141

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• Alternative Futures for Russia to 2017. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071210-russia_2017-web.pdf
• Integrating 21st Century Development and Security Assistance. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071211_patrickintegratinglowres.pdf
• Latin American at Year’s End 2007. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/issues200712.pdf
• The P-5 and Nuclear Nonproliferation. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071210-einhorn-the_p-5-web.pdf
• US Airpower in Iraq (OIF) and Afghanistan (OIF): 2004-2007. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071213_oif-oef_airpower.pdf

Combat Studies Institute (CSI)

• A Masterpiece of Counterguerrilla Warfare: BG J. Franklin Bell in Philippines, 1901-1902. (Long War series, Occasional Paper #25) http://usacac.army.mil/CAC/csi/RandP/OP25.pdf

Congress. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

• Political Interference with Climate Change Science Under the Bush Administration. http://oversight.house.gov/documents/20071210101633.pdf
• Supporting Documents, Part 1 - http://oversight.house.gov/documents/20071212122744.pdf
• Supporting Documents, Part 2 - http://oversight.house.gov/documents/20071212122810.pdf
• Supporting Documents, Part 3 - http://oversight.house.gov/documents/20071212122836.pdf

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• Historical Effective Federal Tax Rates: 1979 to 2005. http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdoc.cfm?index=8885
• H.R. 1512, A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for compensation to states incarcerating undocumented aliens charged with a felony or two or more misdemeanors. http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdoc.cfm?index=8886
• The Long-Term Budget Outlook. http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdoc.cfm?index=8877&type=1
• Long-Term Implications of Current Defense Plans: Summary Update for Fiscal Year 2008. http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdoc.cfm?index=8844&type=1
• S. 2248, FISA Amendments Act of 2007 http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdoc.cfm?index=8887

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

• Climate Change and National Security: An Agenda for Action. http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/ClimateChange_CSR32.pdf
• A Fragmented Climate Policy. http://www.cfr.org/publication/15057/fragmented_policy_on_climate_change.html?breadcrumb=%2F
• Tehran’s Mood Swing. http://www.cfr.org/publication/15028/tehrans_mood_swing.html?breadcrumb=%2F

Department of Defense Sexual Assault Prevention and Response

• Department of Defense Annual Report on Sexual Harassment and Violence at the U.S. Military Service Academies: Academic Program Year 2006-2007. http://www.sapr.mil/contents/news/CurrentNewsletter/Academy%20Report%2012-7-07.pdf
• Previous reports are available at http://www.sapr.mil/HomePage.aspx?Topic=ResourcesReports&PageName=ReportLinks.htm

Finnish Institute of International Affairs

• From Protecting Some to Securing Many – NATO’s journey from a Military Alliance to a Security Manager. http://www.upi-fiia.fi/document.php?DOC_ID=237#FIIA_Report_17_web_.pdf

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

• After the Surge: The Only Iraq Worth Fighting For. http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200712.mines.aftersurge.html
• Annapolis: Three-Ring Diplomacy. http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200712.sicherman.annapolis.html
• Iran, Russia, and the Bomb. http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200712.lee.iranrussiabomb.html

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• The Democratic Republic of the Congo: Systematic Assessment Is Needed to Determine Agencies' Progress toward U.S. Policy Objectives. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08188.pdf
• DOD Travel Improper Payments: Fiscal Year 2006 Reporting Was Incomplete and Planned Improvement Efforts Face Challenges. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0816.pdf
• Improper Payments: Weaknesses in USAID's and NASA's Implementation of the Improper Payments Information Act and Recovery Auditing. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0877.pdf
• International Trade: An Analysis of Free Trade Agreements and Congressional and Private Sector Consultations under Trade Promotion Authority. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0859.pdf
• Military Base Realignments and Closures: Cost Estimates Have Increased and Are Likely to Continue to Evolve. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08159.pdf
• Organizational Transformation: Implementing Chief Operating Officer/Chief Management Officer Positions in Federal Agencies. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0834.pdf
• Toxic Chemical Releases: EPA Actions Could Reduce Environmental Information Available to Many Communities. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08128.pdf

HELP Commission Report on Foreign Assistance Reform

• Beyond Assistance: The HELP Commission report on Foreign Assistance Reform.Helping to Enhance the Livelihood of People Around the Globe. http://helpcommission.gov/portals/0/Beyond%20Assistance_HELP_Commission_Report.pdf

Heritage Foundation

• The AMT Patch: A Few Months Late and $51 Billion Heavy. http://www.heritage.org/Research/Taxes/wm1745.cfm
• The Election of Anson Chan: A Step Forward for Democracy in Hong Kong. http://www.heritage.org/Research/AsiaandthePacific/wm1734.cfm
• Five Benchmarks for the Omnibus Spending Bill. http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/wm1737.cfm
• Future Combat Systems: A Congressional Guide to Army Modernization. http://www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/upload/bg_2091.pdf
• Obsolete Restrictions on Public Diplomacy Hurt U.S. Outreach and Strategy. http://www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/upload/bg_2089.pdf
• Providing for the Common Defense: Four Percent for Freedom. http://www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/em1028.cfm
• Trojan Dragons: China's International Cyber Warriors. http://www.heritage.org/Research/AsiaandthePacific/wm1735.cfm
• The U.S. Should Oppose the Largest Budget Increase in U.N. History. http://www.heritage.org/Research/InternationalOrganizations/wm1741.cfm

Homeland Security Institute (HSI)

• Homeland Security Strategic Planning: Mission Area Analysis. http://www.homelandsecurity.org/hsireports/MAAReportFinal28Mar07public.pdf
• Underlying Reasons for Success and Failure of Terrorist Attacks: Selected Case Studies. http://www.homelandsecurity.org/hsireports/Reasons_for_Terrorist_Success_Failure.pdf

Human Rights Watch

• Chronic Indifference: HIV/AIDS Services for Immigrants Detained by the United States. http://hrw.org/reports/2007/us1207/
• Crackdown: Repression of the 2007 Popular Protests in Burma. http://hrw.org/reports/2007/burma1207/burma1207webwcover.pdf
• Egypt: Anatomy of a State Security Case: The ‘Victorious Sect’ Arrests. http://hrw.org/reports/2007/egypt1207/

International Crisis Group

• Central African Republic: Anatomy of a Phantom State. [summary in English, report is in French] http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=5220&l=1
• Peacebuilding in Haiti: Including Haitians from Abroad. http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/getfile.cfm?id=3237&tid=5225&type=pdf&l=1

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

• Iranian Nuclear Program Remains Major Threat Despite Partial Freeze. http://www.cns.miis.edu/pubs/week/071206.htm
• Iran Nuclear Sites. http://www.nti.org/e_research/profiles_pdfs/Iran/iran_nuclear_sites.pdf

Lexington Institute

• CG(X) And The Future Of Naval Warfare. http://lexingtoninstitute.org/docs/795.pdf
• Final Bush Budget Signals Retreat From Transformation. http://lexingtoninstitute.org/1204.shtml

National Security Archive

• Fujimori on Trial: Secret DIA Intelligence Cable Ties Former President to Summary Execution. http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB237/index.htm
• The INF Treaty and the Washington Summit: 20 Years Later. http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB238/index.htm

Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)

• Globalisation and Diplomacy. http://se1.isn.ch/serviceengine/FileContent?serviceID=PublishingHouse&fileid=4E022F05-71C0-0547-776A-B3E87AD08136&lng=en

Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life

• South Korea's Coming Election Highlights Christian Community. http://pewresearch.org/pubs/657/south-koreas-coming-election-highlights-christian-community

Pew Global Attitudes Project

• How the World Sees China. http://pewresearch.org/pubs/656/how-the-world-sees-china

Pew Hispanic Center

• 2007 National Survey of Latinos: As Illegal Immigration Issue Heats Up, Hispanics Feel a Chill. http://pewhispanic.org/files/reports/84.pdf

Rand

• Securing America's Passenger-Rail Systems. http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2007/RAND_MG705.pdf
• The State of the Afghan Insurgency. Seth G. Jones Testimony presented before the Canadian Senate National Security and Defence Committee. http://www.rand.org/pubs/testimonies/2007/RAND_CT296.pdf

Stateline.org

• With Feds Stuck, States Take on Immigration. http://www.stateline.org/live/details/story?contentId=264483

Friday's Miscellany 12-07-2007

Ad Hoc Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with Security and Intelligence Communities

Final Report. http://www.aaanet.org/pdf/FINAL_Report_Complete.pdf

Air & Space Power Journal

Winter 2007, v. 21, no. 4 http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/apj/apj07/win07.htm

• The Coalition Air Force Transition Team: Rebuilding Iraq’s Air Force. Maj Gen (sel) Robert R. Allardice, USAF Maj Kyle “Brad” Head, USA
• Airpower and Irregular Warfare. Lt Col Paul D. Berg, USAF, Chief, Professional Journals
• Air-Minded Considerations for Joint Counterinsurgency Doctrine. Maj Gen Charles J. Dunlap Jr., USAF
• To Bomb or Not to Bomb? Counterinsurgency, Airpower, and Dynamic Targeting. Maj Jason M. Brown, USAF
• Maritime Homeland Defense: A Role of Land-Based Airpower? Lt Col Alexus G. Grynkewich, USAF
• Dawn of the Cognetic Age: Fighting Ideological War by Putting Thought in Motion with Impact. Lt Col Bruce K. Johnson, USAF
• The Paradox of Irregular Airpower. Maj Benjamin R. Maitre, USAF
• Irregular Warfare and the US Air Force: The Way Ahead. Col Robyn Read, USAF, Retired
• Chinese Servicemen’s Views of USAF Airmen and Education. Sr Col Qigui Wang.
• PLAAF Political Commissar, Sr Col Wang Ximin, PLAAF Political Commissar, Guilin Air Force College, Sr Col Hao Chengming, PLAAF Air Force Aviation University
• Minting COIN Principles and Imperatives for Combating Insurgency. Dr. Conrad C. Crane

Air Force Association

• Victory in Cyberspace. http://www.afa.org/media/reports/victorycyberspace.pdf

Amnesty International

• Uganda: Doubly Traumatised: Lack of Access to Justice for Female Victims of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Northern Uganda. http://web.amnesty.org/library/pdf/AFR590052007ENGLISH/$File/AFR5900507.pdf

Brookings Institution

• A Dialogue: Engaging the Latin American World. http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/opinions/2007/1127_latin_america_dialogue/1127_latin_america_dialogue.pdf
• A New Course for Iraq. http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2007/1205_iraq_ohanlon.aspx

Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute

• Canada as the “Emerging Energy Superpower”: Testing the Case. http://www.cdfai.org/PDF/CDFAIConference2007.pdf
• A Threatened Future: Canada's Future Strategic Environment and its Security Implications. http://www.cdfai.org/PDF/FSE2007.pdf

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Assessing the National Intelligence Estimate. http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=19747&prog=zgp&proj=zme,znpp
• Financing Energy Efficiency in China. http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/clean_energy_final1.pdf

Center for American Progress

• Iraq’s Displacement Crisis Requires More Effort from the United States. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/12/iraq_displacement_event.html
• U.S. Aid to Pakistan: Testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Subcommittee on International Development and Foreign Assistance By Lawrence J. Korb. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/12/pdf/Korb_Pakistan_Testimony.pdf

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

• Policy Review: A Moral Core for U.S. Foreign Policy. http://www.cnas.org/en/art/?352

Center for Defense Information

• The Defense Monitor, Volume XXXVI, No. 6 - November/December 2007 (The U.S. Military: By the Numbers) http://www.cdi.org/pdfs/DM-NovDec07.pdf
• Policy Brief: Iraq, Iran and Turkey. http://www.cdi.org/pdfs/newhousepolicybrief.pdf
• Space Security Update #11: Dec. 5, 2007 http://www.cdi.org/program/document.cfm?DocumentID=4152&from_page=../index.cfm

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• The Afghan-Pakistan War: A Status Report. http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_pubs/task,view/id,4221/type,1/
• Assessing the Afghan-Pakistani Conflict. http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_pubs/task,view/id,4219/type,1/
• Critical Questions: Beyond Annapolis — The Security Aspects. http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_pubs/task,view/id,4225/type,1/
• Critical Questions: Constitutional Referendum in Venezuela. http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_pubs/task,view/id,4223/type,1/
• Critical Questions: Iran and the New National Intelligence Estimate. http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_pubs/task,view/id,4224/type,1/
• Five Years After 9/11: An Assessment of America’s War on Terror - Intelligence. http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_pubs/task,view/id,4213/type,1/
• Understanding the Key Judgments in the New NIE on Iranian Nuclear Weapons. http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_pubs/task,view/id,4227/type,1/

Center for Security Studies (CSS)

• After Annapolis: A Fragile Peace Process in the Middle East. http://www.isn.ethz.ch/pubs/ph/details.cfm?id=45561
• Strategic Crisis Management: Trends and Concepts. http://www.isn.ethz.ch/pubs/ph/details.cfm?lng=en&id=44936

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• Cost Estimate for H.R. 6, Energy Independence and Security Act. http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdoc.cfm?index=8882&type=1
• The Impact of Unauthorized Immigrants on the Budgets of State and Local Governments. http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdoc.cfm?index=8711&type=1
• The Long-Term Outlook for Health Care Spending. http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdoc.cfm?index=8758&type=1
• Modernizing the Army's Rotary-Wing Aviation Fleet. http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdoc.cfm?index=8865&type=1
• Monthly Budget Review. http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdoc.cfm?index=8878&type=1
• Testimony on the Current Economic Situation. http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdoc.cfm?index=8876&type=1

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

• Considering the PetroEuro. http://www.cfr.org/publication/14988/is_opec_entering_the_age_of_the_petroeuro.html?breadcrumb=%2F
• India’s Northern Exposure. http://www.cfr.org/publication/14969/indias_northern_exposure.html?breadcrumb=%2Fpublication%2Fby_type%2Fdaily_analysis
• Intelligence on Iran Still Lacking. http://www.cfr.org/publication/12721/intelligence_on_iran_still_lacking.html?breadcrumb=%2Fpublication%2Fby_type%2Fbackgrounder
• Kosovo’s End Game. http://www.cfr.org/publication/14971/kosovos_end_game.html?breadcrumb=%2F
• Lawlessness in Eastern Congo. http://www.cfr.org/publication/14986/lawlessness_in_eastern_congo.html?breadcrumb=%2Fpublication%2Fby_type%2Fdaily_analysis
• Progress Without Politics. http://www.cfr.org/publication/14943/progress_without_politics.html?breadcrumb=%2F

Department of Defense

• FY 2007 DoD Agency Financial Report (AFR). http://www.defenselink.mil/comptroller/par/fy2007/F07DoDAFR.pdf

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

• Management of the Iraq Security Forces Fund in Southwest Asia - Phase III. http://www.dodig.osd.mil/Audit/reports/fy08/08-026.pdf

Environment America Research & Policy Center

• When It Rains, It Pours. Global Warming and the Rising Frequency of Extreme Precipitation in the United States. http://environmentamerica.org/uploads/oy/ws/oywshWAwZy-EXPsabQKd4A/When-It-Rains-It-Pours----US---WEB.pdf
  

ExecutiveAction LLC

• Spores: The Threat of a Catastrophic Anthrax Attack on America. http://www.pharmathene.com/pdf/ThreatDocumentFINAL.pdf

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

• After the Surge: The Only Iraq Worth Fighting For. http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200712.mines.aftersurge.html
• Annapolis: Three-Ring Diplomacy. http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200712.sicherman.annapolis.html

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• "America's Fiscal Future," by David M. Walker, comptroller general of the United States, before the Greater Washington Society of CPAs' Annual Not For Profit Organization Symposium, in Washington, D.C. Presentation. http://www.gao.gov/cghome/d08339cg.pdf
• "Fiscal and Health Care Challenges," by David M. Walker, comptroller general of the United States, before the National Conference on Health Care Consumerism, in Washington, D.C. Presentation. http://www.gao.gov/cghome/d08338cg.pdf
• International Trade: An Analysis of Free Trade Agreements and Congressional and Private Sector Consultations under Trade Promotion Authority. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0859.pdf
• Operation Iraqi Freedom: DOD Assessment of Iraqi Security Forces' Units as Independent Not Clear Because ISF Support Capabilities Are Not Fully Developed. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08143r.pdf
• "Saving Our Future Requires Tough Choices Today," by David M. Walker, comptroller general of the United States, on the Fiscal Wake-Up Tour at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. Presentation. http://www.gao.gov/cghome/d08337cg.pdf
• Stabilization and Reconstruction: Actions Are Needed to Develop a Planning and Coordination Framework and Establish the Civilian Reserve Corps. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0839.pdf
• Transportation Security Administration's Processes for Designating and Releasing Sensitive Security Information. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08232r.pdf
• "U.S. Financial Condition and Fiscal Future Briefing," by David M. Walker, comptroller general of the United States, before the Center for Governmental Accounting Education and Research's Annual Conference, at Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Presentation. http://www.gao.gov/cghome/d08340cg.pdf

Heritage Foundation

• Don’t Be Misled by NIE on Iran’s Nuclear Efforts. http://www.heritage.org/Research/Iran/wm1727.cfm
• Economic Lethargy: South Korea Needs a Second Wave of Reforms. http://www.heritage.org/Research/AsiaandthePacific/bg2090.cfm

Human Rights Watch

• Repression of the 2007 Popular Protests in Burma. http://hrw.org/reports/2007/burma1207/
• Rot Here or Die There: Bleak Choices for Iraqi Refugees in Lebanon. http://www.hrw.org/reports/2007/lebanon1207/

International Alert

• Peacebuilding in Eastern DRC: Improving EU Support for Economic Recovery. http://www.international-alert.org/publications/getdata.php?doctype=Pdf&id=323&docs=982

International Crisis Group

• Kosovo Countdown: A Blueprint for Transition. http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=5201&l=1
• Nigeria: Ending Unrest in the Niger Delta. http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=5186&l=1
• North Korea-Russia Relations: A Strained Friendship. http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=5198&l=1

Lexington Institute

• Air Force Struggles to Meet Airlift Needs of Joint Force. http://lexingtoninstitute.org/1199.shtml
• U.S. Spending on Military Technology through 2010. http://lexingtoninstitute.org/1200.shtml

Pew Center of Global Climate Change

• Regional Impacts of Climate Change. Four Case Studies in the United States. http://pewclimate.org/docUploads/Regional-Impacts-FullReport.pdf

Pew Global Attitudes Project

• How the World Rates Women as Leaders. http://pewresearch.org/pubs/650/women-leaders

Project for Excellence in Journalism

• Terror, the Economy, and Disasters Get the Media’s Attention in the Third Quarter of 2007. http://journalism.org/node/8797

Strategic Studies Institute

• Force and Restraint in Strategic Deterrence: A Game-Theorist's Perspective. http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=823
• Is it Time to Mandate Volunteerism? http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=836
• Russian Security Strategy under Vladimir Putin: Russian and American Perspectives. http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=829

Strategic Studies Quarterly (SSQ)

Winter 2007, V. 1. no. 2 http://www.maxwell.af.mil/au/ssq/index.asp

• Air, Space, and Cyberspace Power for the Future? Lt Gen Stephen R. Lorenz, USAF
• Toward Restructuring National Security. Lt Gen David A. Deptula, USAF
• Adapt or Die: The US Military's Responsibility to Protect America by Leading the Transformations in Science and Technology. Newt Gingrich with CAPT Ronald E. Weisbrook, USN
• Irregular Warfare: One Nature, Many Characters. Colin S. Gray
• Exploring the Knowledge Nexus: India's Path in Terrorism-Driven Institutional Growth. Chris C. Demchak and Eric Werner
• Divine Victory for Whom: Airpower in the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah War. William M. Arkin

US Interagency Counterinsurgency Initiative (USGICI)

• USGICI Website http://www.usgcoin.org/
• Counterinsurgency for U.S. Government Policy Makers: A Work in Progress. http://www.usgcoin.org/library/USGDocuments/InterimCounterinsurgencyGuide(Oct2007).pdf

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• Elections in Lebanon: Implications for Washington, Beirut, and Damascus. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2690
• How Much Does Weaponization Matter? Judging Iran's Nuclear Program. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2689
• Libel, Terrorism, and the Assault on Academic Freedom. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2692

World Economic Forum

• The Global Gender Gap. http://www.weforum.org/pdf/gendergap/report2007.pdf
• United Arab Emirates and the World: Scenarios to 2025. http://www.weforum.org/pdf/scenarios/UAE.pdf