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