Sunday, December 28, 2008
Friday's Miscellany 12-26-2008
· Bush the Hall Monitor
· Defense Spending Would Be Great Stimulus
· Venting in Athens
BASIC
· Afghanistan Update [December 23, 2008]
· Iran Update [December 22, 2008]
Brookings Institution
· The Current Detainee Population of Guantánamo: An Empirical Study
· Don’t Forget the Human Infrastructure
· Economy, Housing Woes Slow Migration, Census Shows
· How to Win Islam Over
· The Millennium Challenge Corporation: An Opportunity for the Next President
Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDAI)
· Mexico: Current and Future Political, Economic and Security Trends
· President Al Gore and the 2003 Iraq War: A Counterfactual Critique of Conventional "W"isdom
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
· BBC Live at Carnegie: Foreign Policy for Obama
· Bloodbath in Bombay: India's Leading Voices Speak Out
Center for Defense Information (CDI)
Defense Monitor v. 27, November-December 2008
o U.S. Nuclear Forces and Conventional Force Alternatives
o Getting to Zero
o Joint Strike Fighter: The Latest Hotspot in the U.S. Defense Meltdown
o The Other Meltdown: Our Defenses
o Restricting U.S. Access to the ISS?: One of Missile Defense's Unintended Consequences
o Countdown to Air Force Cyber Command Stopped
Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
· America's Self-Destroying Air Power: Becoming Your Own Peer Threat
· The Oil Market: It’s All About Demand For Now
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
· Factors Underlying the Decline in Manufacturing Employment Since 2000
· Historical Effective Tax Rates, 1979 to 2005: Supplement with Additional Data on Sources of Income and High-Income Households
Defense Science Board (DBS)
Challenges to Military Operations in Support of U.S. Interests
o Vol I - Executive Summary
o Vol II - Main Report
· Permanent Task Force on Nuclear Weapons Surety Report: Nuclear Weapons Inspections for the Strategic Nuclear Forces
Department of Defense
· DoD Directive 3000.07, Irregular Warfare (IW), December 1, 2008
· DoD Directive 5200.41, DoD Centers for Regional Security Studies, July 30, 2004; Certified Current as of December 5, 2008
· DoD Instruction 2205.02, Humanitarian and Civic Assistance (HCA) Activities, December 2, 2008
· DoD Instruction 8410.02, NetOps for the Global Information Grid (GIG), December 19, 2008
· Directive-Type Memorandum DTM-08-006, DoD Implementation of Homeland Security Presidential Directive - 12 (HSPD-12), November 26, 2008 - POSTED 12/5/2008
· Directive-Type Memorandum DTM-08-034, DoD Counterthreat Finance (CTF) Policy, December 2, 2008 - POSTED 12/5/2008
Department of Defense Inspector General
· Semiannual Report to Congress, April 1, 2008- September 30, 2008
Department of Homeland Security
· National Incident Management Systems [Dec 2008]
Department of Homeland Security. Privacy Impact Assessments (PIA)
· Advance Passenger Information System – Voluntary Rail and Bus Submissions (APIS-VRBS)
· Automated Commercial System (ACS)/ Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)- Importer Security Filing Data
· Automated Targeting System (ATS) Update
· Changes to Requirements Affecting H-2A Nonimmigrants and Changes to Requirements Affecting H-2B Nonimmigrants and Employers Final Rules
· Department of Homeland Security State, Local, and Regional Fusion Center Initiative
Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
· The Greek Riots: Anomic Youths, Headless Government
· Just What Is Happening in Canada—and What Does It Mean?
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· Defense Logistics: Improved Analysis and Cost Data Needed to Evaluate the Cost-effectiveness of Performance Based Logistics GAO-09-41
· DOD Personnel Clearances: Preliminary Observations about Timeliness and Quality GAO-09-261R
· Homeland Security Grant Program Risk-Based Distribution Methods: Presentation to Congressional Committees - November 14, 2008 and December 15, 2008. GAO-09-168R
Heritage Foundation
· America Should Support the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership
· The Future of the WTO Doha Round
· How a Public Health Plan Will Erode Private Care
Human Rights Watch
· Besieged, Displaced, and Detained: The Plight of Civilians in Sri Lanka’s Vanni Region
· Left to Survive: Systematic Failure to Protect Unaccompanied Migrant Children in Greece
Institute for the Analysis of Global Security
Journal of Energy Security, December 2008
o The Big Gas Troika: A Lot of Hot Air
o Can The United States Drill Its Way to Energy Security?
o Canadian Arctic Energy Security
o Gas Exporting Countries Forum: The Russian-Iranian Gas Cartel
o Russia’s Financial Market Meltdown: Energy Security Implications
International Crisis Group
· Somalia: To Move Beyond the Failed State
International Relations and Security Network
· The French White Paper on Defense and National Security
Lexington Institute
· Economic Security: A George Bush Lesson for Mr. Obama
Lowry Institute for International Policy
· Australian aid to Africa
· Engaging Pakistan
National Defense University. Industrial College of the Armed Forces
· National Security Policy Process: The National Security Council and Interagency System
National Security Archive
· Documentos del Archivo del Terror de Paraguay Desmienten la Fuga de Prisioneros
· Kissinger Telephone Conversation Transcripts
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
· Internet Overtakes Newspapers as News Source
RAND
· Community Policing and Crime: The Process and Impact of Problem-Solving in Oakland
Strategic Studies Institute
· HAMAS and Israel: Conflicting Strategies of Group-Based Politics
Washington Institute for Near East Studies
· Prevent Breakdown, Prepare for Breakthrough: How President Obama Can Promote Israeli-Palestinian Peace
White House
· Highlights of Accomplishments and Results: The Administration of President George W. Bush, 2001-2009
· 100 Things Americans May Not Know About the Bush Administration Record
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Updated Unified Command Plan (UCP) 2008
The document itself is classified
According to their press release http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=52450 , major changes to the plan include:
-- Codifying Africom, which became fully operational-capable Oct. 1, as a geographic combatant command by assigning specific missions, responsibilities and geographic boundaries;
-- Shifting the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Turks and Caicos Islands from U.S. Southern Command's to U.S. Northern Command's area of responsibility;
-- Assigning every combatant commander responsibility for planning and conducting military support for stability, security, transition, reconstruction operations, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief;
-- Assigning central planning authorities for several global missions, including pandemic influenza response, cyberspace operations, global operations against terrorist networks, combating weapons of mass destruction and global missile defense; and
-- Codify U.S. Pacific Command's responsibility for homeland defense operations in Hawaii, Guam and other U.S. territories within its area of responsibility. The plan codifies a new "pandemic influenza" mission and tasks Northcom to plan departmentwide efforts in support of the U.S. government response to an outbreak. U.S. Strategic Command is assigned responsibility for the department's cyberspace mission, Whitman said.
A map of the combatant commanders’ Areas of Responsibility (AOR) is available at http://www.defenselink.mil/news/map12-08.pdf
REPORTS - DBS - Challenges to Military Operations in Support of U.S.
Challenges to Military Operations in Support of U.S. Interests [2007 Summer Study]
Vol I - Executive Summary
Vol II - Main Report
Major themes:
· Future of War
· Unconventional Weapons & Technology Proliferation
· Nuclear Proliferation: A Special Case
· Unconventional Operational Concepts and the Homeland
· What We Know and Don't Know About Adversary Capabilities: Intelligence
· Fighting Through Asymmetric Counterforce
· Strategic Communications: Another Instrument of U.S. Power
Permanent Task Force on Nuclear Weapons Surety Report: Nuclear Weapons Inspections for the Strategic Nuclear Forces [December 2008]
related report -
Permanent Task Force on Nuclear Weapons Surety Report: Unauthorized Movement of Nuclear Weapons (April Update)
Monday, December 22, 2008
Bush Record - 2 new reports
Highlights of Accomplishments and Results: The Administration of President George W. Bush, 2001-2009 [this is the full report with the 100 Things appendix included]
100 Things Americans May Not Know About the Bush Administration Record [this is actually a separate appendix of the main volume above]
These and other related information can be found on the Bush Record page http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/bushrecord/
New NIMS released
National Incident Management Systems [Dec 2008]
NIMS resource page
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Friday's Miscellany 12-19-2008
American Enterprise Institute
· A Conversation with President Bush
· 'Less Than Lethal’?: The Use of Stun Weapons in
Brookings Institution
· Challenges in Alliance Management between
· The Current Detainee Population of Guantánamo: An Empirical Study
· Human Rights,
· Memo to the President: Expand the Agenda in
· The Road…Less Traveled: An Analysis of Vehicle Miles Traveled Trends in the
· Chinese Regional Inequalities in Income and Well-Being
· Sharing the Burden in the
· Thinking Strategically About
·
CATO
· What Will Climate Change Cost Us?
· 2009 National Security and Nonproliferation Briefing Book
· Fiscal Year 2009 (FY 09) Defense Budget: Programs of Interest
· Nuclear Weapons in 21st Century
· Cost of the Wars in
· Bridging Strategic Asia: The
Congress House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
· “Passing the Baton: Preparing for the Presidential Transition”
Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the
· Strategic Posture Review Commission (SPRC) Interim Report to Congress
Congressional Management Foundation (CMF)· Communicating with Congress: Recommendations for Improving the Democratic Dialogue
· Expanding U.S. Military Partnerships in the Pacific
· Rice Defends Regime Change in
Defense Science Board (DSB)
Department of the Army
· Training for Full Spectrum Operations (FM 7-0)
· 2007-2008 APY Military Service Academies Gender Relations Survey Annual Report
Department of Health and Human Services
· Considerations for antiviral Drug Stockpiling by Employers in Preparation for an Influenza Pandemic
· OIG-09-08 - Major Management Challenges Facing the Department of Homeland Security
· National Drug Threat Assessment 2009
· Department of Justice Efforts in Managing Information Technology Security Vulnerabilities
· Tahdiya: Calm Before the Palestinian Storm?
· Time to Change our Oil Policy
· Disaster Assistance: Federal Efforts to Assist Group Site Residents with Employment, Services for Families with Children, and Transportation GAO-09-81
· Fiscal Year 2008 Financial Report of the
· Global War on Terrorism: Reported Obligations for the Department of Defense GAO-09-233R
· Results Oriented Management: Opportunities Exist for Refining the Oversight and Implementation of the Senior Executive Performance-Based Pay System GAO-09-82
· Building Cyber Security Leadership for the 21st Century
· Fixing Border Security and Immigration: A Memo to President-elect Obama
· Learning from
· New CFIUS Regulations Support U.S. National and Economic Security Concerns
· The Oil-Price Roller Coaster: Global Challenges for the Obama Administration
· Protectionism Won't Fuel a Nuclear Renaissance
· Sovereign Wealth Funds: New Voluntary Principles a Step in the Right Direction
· Stiffening
· The Quality of Justice: Failings of
o English
o Arabic
· This Alien Legacy: The Origins of "Sodomy" Laws in British Colonialism
· Trapped and Mistreated: LTTE Abuses against Civilians in the Vanni
International Crisis Group
· Ending
· Policing in
·
· Guantanamo Algerians Back in
· Irish Voice, European Future
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· Obama's Plans for
· Reform or Stasis?: Women and Peace Operations
· UN Declaration of Human Rights at 60: What Role for EU Foreign Policy?
· Chinese Land Attack Cruise Missile Developments and Their Implications for the
· Eurasia Daily Monitor December 19, 2008, v. 5, no. 242
o The Kremlin Defends Its Energy Interests
o
o Need for More Transparency in Kyrgyz and Tajik Energy Sectors to Avoid Future Crises
o Will
· Eurasia Daily Monitor December 18, 2008, v. 5, no. 241
o U.S.–Georgia Security and Military Agreement in the Works
o U.S.-Georgia Strategic Partnership to Address
o A Military Reform That Does Not Seem to Satisfy Anyone
o Turkish Military in Need of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
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· A Mujahideen Bleed-Through from
Lexington Institute
· The Army Needs to Rethink Its Armored Vehicle Strategy
Lowry Institute for International Policy
· Ambition: The Emerging Foreign Policy of the Rudd Government
· Putting the Genie Back in the Bottle: Ruling Regimes and the New Media in the Arab World
National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism
· Hard Lessons: The
· A New Trade Policy for the
· The (Non) Impact of UN Sanctions on
· The North American Free Trade Agreement: Time for a Change?
· The Future of the Internet III
· The
· Improving Organ Donation and Transplantation in the European Union: Assessing the Impacts of European Action
· PREPARE for Pandemic Influenza: A Quality Improvement Toolkit
·
Strategic Studies Institute
· War Without Borders: The Colombia-Ecuador Crisis of 2008
Transportation Research Board
· The Role of Transit in Emergency Evacuation
US Institute of Peace
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· Toward Resolving Chad’s Interlocking Conflicts
Washington Institute for Near East Studies
· The Challenges of Israeli Military Action in
· IDF Military Action in
· Security First:
· Terrorist Threat and U.S. Response: A Changing Landscape
· Views of Arab Democrats: Advice to