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