Commission on the National Guard and Reserves final report

The final report to Congress and the Secretary of Defense from the Commission on the National Guard and Reserves is now available. "Transforming the National Guard and Reserves into a 21st Century Operational Force"

Their main site also includes links to the hearings and other reports.

National Defense Intelligence College Press publications

The National Defense Intelligence College Press is now posting their publications on their website. http://www.ndic.edu/press/press.htm

Some recent releases of interest include:

• A Muslim Archipelago Islam and Politics in Southeast Asia
• Critical Thinking and Intelligence Analysis
• Improving the Law-Enforcement-Intelligence Community Relationship
• The Coast Guard Intelligence Program Enters the Intelligence Community
• Mongolia's Peacekeeping Commitment
  

DBS Report - Directed Energy Weapons

The Defense Science Board (DSB) has posted its Dec 2007 report on Directed Energy Weapons. The Defense Science Board Task Force on Directed Energy Weapon" is available directly at http://www.acq.osd.mil/dsb/reports/2007-12-Directed_Energy_Report.pdf
or from their main reports page at
http://www.acq.osd.mil/dsb/reports.htm

A previous report was done in 2001 -- The DSB Task Force on High Energy Laser Weapon Systems Applications can be found directly at http://www.acq.osd.mil/dsb/reports/rephel.pdf or again from the main DSB reports page -- http://www.acq.osd.mil/dsb/reports.htm

NEW DSB REPORT -- Strategic Communication

FYI
The Defense Science Board has posted its latest report -- The Report of
the Defense Science Board Task Force on Strategic Communication can be
found directly at
http://www.acq.osd.mil/dsb/reports/2008-01-Strategic_Communication.pdf

or linked from http://www.acq.osd.mil/dsb/reports.htm

This report was "conducted within the context of the DSB 2007 Summer
Study on Challenges to Military Operations in Support of National
Interests." The report "offers important recommendations for
transforming the nation's strategic communication capability."

Friday's Miscellany 01-25-2008

Air Force

• Air Force Roadmap: the Vision for the Future.
  

American Enterprise Institute

• The North Korean Problem: Toward a Diplomatic Solution in 2008?

Amnesty International

• Darfur Camps Flooded with Weapons

BASIC

• IRAN UPDATE

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Pakistan Resources

Center for American Progress

• Clock Ticks on Two Time Bombs: Attacks in Iraq Raise Questions About Surge
• Iraq Benchmark Report Card: Total Benchmarks: 3 of 18 Accomplished
  

Center for Security Policy

• Front-Gate: Islamic Society of North America
• Washington's Pakistan Debacle

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments

• U.S. Strategy in Iraq: A Third Way Alternative
  

Center for Strategic and International Studies

• Cordesman's Open Letter on Afghanistan to the House Committee on Armed Services
  
• The Evolving Security Situation in Iraq: The Continuing Need for Strategic Patience
  

Centre for European Reform

• The Roadmap to Better EU-NATO Relations
  

Combat Studies Institute

• Proceedings of the CSI 2007 Military History Symposium - Warfare in the Age of Non-State Actors: Implications for the U.S. Army
  

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2008 to 2018
• Options for Responding to Short-Term Economic Weakness
  

Department of Homeland Security

• National Response Framework
  

Foreign Policy Research Institute

• Kind of Blue?: Implications of Taiwan’s 2008 Elections
  
• Policy Disruption by NIE
  

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Defense Contracting: Contract Risk a Key Factor in Assessing Excessive Pass-Through Charges
• Defense Logistics: The Army Needs to Implement an Effective Management and Oversight Plan for the Equipment Maintenance Contract in Kuwait
• Force Structure -- Need for Greater Transparency for the Army's Grow the Force Initiative Funding Plan
• Influenza Pandemic: Efforts Under Way to Address Constraints on Using Antivirals and Vaccines to Forestall a Pandemic
• Military Operations: Implementation of Existing Guidance and Other Actions Needed to Improve DOD's Oversight and Management of Contractors in Future Operations, testimony by William M. Solis, director, defense capabilities and management, before the Subcommittees of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
  
• Nuclear Nonproliferation: DOE Needs to Reassess Its Program to Assist Weapons Scientists in Russia and Other Countries, by Robert A. Robinson, managing director, natural resources and environment, before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
  
• Observations on Implementing the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative
• September 11: Improvements Still Needed in Availability of Health Screening and Monitoring Services for Responders outside the New York City Area, testimony by Cynthia A. Bascetta, director, health care, before the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
• State and Local Governments: Growing Fiscal Challenges Will Emerge during the Next 10 Years
• Supply Chain Security: Examinations of High-Risk Cargo at Foreign Seaports Have Increased, But Improved Data Collection and Performance Measures Are Needed
  
• "U.S. Financial Condition and Fiscal Future Briefing," by David M. Walker, comptroller general of the United States, before the National Press Foundation, in Washington, D.C. January 17, 2008
  
• United Nations: Management Reforms and Operational Issues, testimony by Thomas Melito, director, international affairs and trade, before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
• VA and DOD Health Care: Administration of DOD's Post-Deployment Health Reassessment to National Guard and Reserve Servicemembers and VA's Interaction with DOD
  

International Crisis Group

• Indonesia: Tackling Radicalism in Poso

ISN Security Watch

• Bush: Little Chance of Masterstroke
  
• Congo Militias Reach 'Historic' Peace Deal
  
• 'Fighting Terrorism Since 1492' [This is the first in a three-part series on separatist movements in the United States.]
  
• Serbs Vote in Pivotal Election
  
• The US, Iran and a Monkey
  

Lexington Institute

• Why Recruit Pentagon Leaders from the Defense Industry?
  

Multi-National Force-Iraq

• MNC-I Operational Update: Jan. 17, 2008
  
• Phantom Phoenix Update: Jan. 23, 2008
  

National Security Archives

• 1978: Clandestine Operation of Argentine Military Intelligence in Mexico
  

Rand

• Managing Diversity in Corporate America: An Exploratory Analysis
• Setting the Agenda for an Evidence-based Olympics
  

Stateline.org

• State of the States, 2008
  

Strategic Studies Institute

• Development and Reform of the Iraqi Police Forces
  
• Women in Combat Compendium
  

US Department of Energy. Audit Report

• The Department’s Cyber Security Incident Management Program

US Financial Services

• The FBIIC/FSSCC Pandemic Flu Exercise of 2007 After Action Report
  

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• Conference Proceedings: Autumn of Decisions: A Critical Moment for American Engagement in the Middle East
  
• Britain and the Middle East
  

National Response Framework document released

FYI - the new National Response Framework document has just been released and is now available. The NRF supersedes the National Response Plan and is intended to serve as a guide for how the nation will conduct incident response. The new name is intended to better align the document and this intent.

DOD is a "full partner in the Federal response to domestic incidents, and its response is fully coordinated through the mechanisms of this Framework." [p.11]

It is available directly at http://www.fema.gov/pdf/emergency/nrf/nrf-core.pdf

Other related information is available at their main website the National Response Framework Resource Center -- http://www.fema.gov/emergency/nrf/mainindex.htm

The press release with more background is available at http://www.fema.gov/pdf/emergency/nrf/whatsnew.pdf

Friday's Miscellany 01-18-2008

ACLU

• Pandemic Preparedness: The Need for a Public Health-Not a Law Enforcement/National Security-Approach

Amnesty International

• Campaigning to End Stoning in Iran
• Religious Minority Faces Discrimination in Armenia

Atlantic Council of the United States

• U.S.–Turkey Relations Require New Focus on Energy Security, Middle East, and Fighting Terrorism

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• The Draft Party Platform of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood: Foray into Political Integration or Retreat into Old Positions?

CATO

• Cracks in the Foundation: NATO's New Troubles

Center for American Progress

• After the Surge: U.S. Army Chief of Staff Casey Is Right to Be Worried

Center for Security Policy

• Globaloney
• Argentina's Kirchner - An Ally of Chavez

Center for Strategic and International Studies

• Iran and the US: Key Issues from an American Perspective
• Comparative Connections v.9 n.4 - A Quarterly E-Journal on East Asian Bilateral Relations
  
• Smart Power Speaker Series with Henry Crumpton

Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

• Al-Qa'ida's Foreign Fighters in Iraq: A First Look at the Sinjar Records
• CTC Sentinel

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• A Comparison of Science and Technology Funding for DOD's Space and Nonspace Programs
• Effects of Gasoline Prices on Driving Behavior and Vehicle Markets
• The Health Care System for Veterans: An Interim Report
• Unauthorized Appropriations and Expiring Authorizations

Florida Statewide Grand Jury

• First Interim Report of the Statewide Grand Jury. Criminal Gangs and Gang Related Violence

Foreign Policy Research Institute

• America’s "Long War(s)"
• Policy Disruption by NIE

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Chemical Demilitarization: Additional Management Actions Needed to Meet Key Performance Goals of DOD's Chemical Demilitarization Program
• Energy Markets: Increasing Globalization of Petroleum Products Markets, Tightening Refining Demand and Supply Balance, and Other Trends Have Implications for U.S. Energy Supply, Prices, and Price Volatility
• Iran Sanctions: Impact in Furthering U.S. Objectives Is Unclear and Should Be Reviewed
• Iraq Reconstruction: Better Data Needed to Assess Iraq's Budget Execution

Heritage Foundation

• Nicaragua's President Ortega: The Balancing Act After One Year
• The Iran National Intelligence Estimate: A Comprehensive Guide to What Is Wrong with the NIE
• Advancing Freedom in Burma
• Don't Tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, But Tap Elsewhere

Human Rights First

• Private Security Contractors at War: Ending the Culture of Impunity

Human Rights Watch

• Burma’s Gem Trade and Human Rights Abuses
• Crackdown in Burma: Targeted Sanctions Needed: Business-Related Recommendations on Burma

Indiana State University. Dept. of Criminology.

• Terrorist Recruitment in American Correctional Institutions: An Exploratory Study of Non-Traditional Faith Groups. Final Report

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)

• ISIS Imagery Brief: New Construction at Syrian Site

International Crisis Group

• "A Seat at the Table: The Role of Displaced Persons in Peace Talks and Peacebuilding" Presentation by Donald Steinberg, Vice-President, International Crisis Group, at the U.S. Institute of Peace, Washington DC, 14 December 2007.
• Timor-Leste: Security Sector Reform

Lexington Institute

• Deal of the Century: Who Will Win the Tanker Competition?

National Defense Intelligence College (NDIC)

• To Our Great Detriment: Ignoring What Extremists Say About Jihad

Office of Immigration Statistics (OIS)

• Trends in Naturalization Rates

Rand

• Estimating the Cost of Administering the Department of Defense Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program
• Maintaining Military Medical Skills During Peacetime Outlining and Assessing a New Approach
  
• Towards a Dutch Interoperability Framework: Recommendations to the Forum Standaardisatie
  
• U.S.-Pakistan Relations: Assassination, Instability, and the Future of U.S. Policy. Testimony

Strategic Studies Institute

• A Contemporary Challenge to State Sovereignty: Gangs and Other Illicit Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs) in Central America, El Salvador, Mexico, Jamaica, and Brazil
• Pakistan's Nuclear Future: Worries Beyond War

USAF Counterproliferation Center (CPC)

• Our Backyard: Posse Comitatus and the Challenge of Government Reorganization

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• Apocalyptic Politics: On the Rationality of Iranian Policy
• Bush's Middle East Trip: The President Embraces Rice's Approach
  
• Prosecuting Terrorism beyond 'Material Support'
• Presidential Politics: Republican and Democratic Views on Middle East Policy

Friday's Miscellany 01-11-2008

Air University

• Shortingchanging the Joint Fight? An Airman’s Assessment of FM 3-24 and the Case for Developing Truly Joint COIN Doctrine. MGEN Charles J. Dunlap, Jr. USAF.
  

American Enterprise Institute

• A Chance to Rein In North Korea.
  
• Europe and Islam.
  
• France: Europe's Counterterrorist Powerhouse.
  
• Is Iraqi Kurdistan a Good Ally?

BASIC

• Iran Update, No. 111.
  

Brookings Institution

• Applying the Lessons of Bosnia in Iraq: Whatever the Solution, Property Rights Should be Secured.
  

Center for American Progress

• Four Ticking Time Bombs.
  
• A New Strategy to Spur Energy Innovation.
  

Center for Defense Information

• Prospects for Russian-American Missile Defense Cooperation: Lessons from RAMOS and JDEC.
  

James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies

• Top Ten Most Significant Events & Trends of 2007.
  

Center for Security Policy

• Colombia's Uribe Unmasks the FARC.
  
• Purple Heart in the War of Ideas?
  

Center for Security Studies (CSS)

• Climate Change and Security Policy.
  
• Environment-Related Conflicts: Balancing Ecology and Politics.
  

Center for Strategic and International Studies

• Breaking the Stalemate in Kenya.
  
• The Patterns in Violence and Casualties in Iraq 2007: The Need for Strategic Patience.
  
• Security and Stability in the Greater Middle East.
  

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

• HIV Prevention Strategic Plan: Extended Through 2010
• Index page
  
• PDF of report
  

Congress. House Oversight Committee

• Information Security Breach at TSA: The Traveler Redress Website.
  

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• Monthly Budget Review.
  
• Society of Government Economists Distinguished Lecture on Economics.
  

Department of Defense. Inspector General (DOD IG)

• DoD Initiatives for Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction.
  

Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General (DHS IG)

• DHS’s Domestic Nuclear Detection Office: Progress in Integrating Detection Capabilities and Response Protocols.
  

Foreign Policy Research Institute

• The Global ‘Go-To Think Tanks’: The Leading Public Policy Research Organizations in the World.
  
• Mind the Gap: Post-Iraq Civil-Military Relations in America.
  
• Tools of Statecraft: Diplomacy and War.
  
• Understanding Kenya.
  

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Audits of Public Companies: Continued Concentration in Audit Market for Large Public Companies Does Not Call for Immediate Action.
  
• Defense Acquisitions: Departmentwide Direction Is Needed for Implementation of the Anti-Tamper Policy.
  
• Federal-Aid Highways: Increased Reliance on Contractors Can Pose Oversight Challenges for Federal and State Officials.
  
• Freight Transportation: National Policy and Strategies Can Help Improve Freight Mobility.
  
• Information Security: IRS Needs to Address Pervasive Weaknesses.
  
• Maritime Security: Federal Efforts Needed to Address Challenges in Preventing and Responding to Terrorist Attacks on Energy Commodity Tankers.
  
• Nuclear Nonproliferation: DOE's Program to Assist Weapons Scientists in Russia and Other Countries Needs to Be Reassessed.
  
• Posthearing Questions Related to Federal Agencies' Activities regarding the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act.
  
• "U.S. Financial Condition and Fiscal Future Briefing" by David M. Walker, comptroller general of the United States, before the Rotary Club of Birmingham, Alabama. January 9, 2008.
  

Heritage Foundation

• Kenyan Election Signals Need to Overhaul U.S. Policy Toward Nascent Democracies.
• Latin America: A Wish List for 2008.
  
• The President's Middle East Trip: An Opportunity to Promote Security, Freedom, and Peace.

Human Rights Watch

• Libya: Rights at Risk.
  
• "You Can Detain Anyone for Anything": Iran’s Broadening Clampdown on Independent Activism.
  

Institute for Science and International Security

• North Korea's Plutonium Declaration: A Starting Point for an Initial Verification Process.
  

International Crisis Group

• Cyprus: Reversing the Drift to Partition.
  
• THE GLOBAL "GO-TO THINK TANKS"
  

Iraq Family Health Survey Study Group

• “Violence-Related Mortality in Iraq from 2002-2007.” [New England Journal of Medicine, January 11, 2008, v. 358, no. 5, p. 484-493.
  

Jamestown Foundation

• Terrorism Focus.
  
• Terrorism Monitor.
  
• Implications of the New Kurdish-Sunni Alliance for Security in Iraq’s Ninawa Governorate By Ramzy Mardini
• Insurrection in Iranian Balochistan. By Chris Zambelis
• South Waziri Tribesmen Organize Counterinsurgency Lashkar. By Andrew McGregor
• Turkey’s Other War on Terrorism. By Gareth Jenkins
  

Joint Chiefs of Staff

• Jt Pub 3-07.3 Peace Operations 17 October 2007
  
• Jt Pub 3-28 Civil Support 14 September 2007
  

JFQ (Joint Force Quarterly)

• (2008) Issue 48, 1st Quarter
• “The Art of Strategy and Operational Warfare: Getting It Right.” (Christopher R. Davis, pp. 92-97)
• “Attacking al Qaeda’s Operational Centers of Gravity.” (David M. Witty, pp. 98-103)
• “Counterair and Counterland Concepts for the 21st Century.” (Ellwood P. Hinman IV, pp. 85-91)
  
• “Creating Shared Situational Awareness.” (Stewart Swan, pp. 51-55)
• “The Domestic IED Threat.” (John Kress; Steven Grogger, pp. 66-69)
• “Habeas Corpus and the Detention of Enemy Combatants in the War on Terror.” (James P. Terry, pp. 14-18)
  
• “The International Criminal Court: A Concept Whose Time Has Not Come.” (James P. Terry, pp. 36-40)
  
• “JLASS: Celebrating 25 Years of Educating Future Leaders.” (Sean R. Connors; Theodore P. Ogren, pp. 7-10)
  
• “Juridical Warfare: The Neglected Legal Instrument.” (Harvey Rishikof, pp. 11-13)
• “Major Joint/Combined Operations.” (Milan N. Vego, pp. 111-120)
  
• “Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate: A State within a State?” (Mark J. Roberts, pp. 104-110)
• “Rendition: The Beast and the Man.” (Kevin M. Cieply, pp. 19-21)
  
• “The Role of Targeted Killing in the Campaign against Terror.” (Peter M. Cullen, pp. 22-29)
  
• “The Science and Art of Disaster Response by the National Guard.” (Charles G. Rodriguez, pp. 77-81)
  
• “Underlying Assumptions of the National Security Act of 1947.” (Charles A. Stevenson, pp. 129-133)
  

Lexington Institute

• Gates Intelligence Reprganization Focuses on "Integration": NRO.
  
• Maritime Security.
  

National Academies Press

• Human Behavior in Military Contexts.
  
• Manpower and Personnel Needs for a Transformed Naval Force.
  

Pew Internet & American Life Project

• Online Video Audience Surges.
  

Public Interest Declassification Board

• Improving Declassification—a Report to the President.
  

Rand

• Stockage Determination Made Easy.
  

Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College

• COIN of the Realm: U.S. Counterinsurgency Strategy.
  
• Community Policing and Violence Prevention in Oakland: Measure Y in Action.
  
• The Interagency and Counterinsurgency Warfare: Aligning and Integrating Military and Civilian Roles in Stability, Security, Transition, and Reconstruction (SSTR) Operations.
  

US Institute of Peace

• Conflict-Sensitive Approach to Infrastructure Development.
  
• Framework for Success: Fragile States and Societies Emerging from Conflict.
• Keeping an Eye on an Unruly Neighbor. Chinese Views of Economic Reform and Stability in North Korea.
  
• Media and Conflict: Afghanistan as a Relative Success Story.
  
• Negotiating with the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Friday's Miscellany 01-04-2008

Army War College

• Parameters, Winter 2007-2008, v. 37, no. 4 http://www.carlisle.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/07winter/contents2.htm
• “Afghanistan: Regaining Momentum” by Ali A. Jalali “New Challenges and Old Concepts: Understanding 21st Century Insurgency” by Steven Metz
• “US COIN Doctrine and Practice: An Ally’s Perspective” by Alexander Alderson
• “Strategic Realignment: Ends, Ways, and Means in Iraq” by Bruce J. Reider
• “The Military and Reconstruction Operations” by Mick Ryan
• “Disarming Rogues: Deterring First-Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction” by David Szabo
• “Stabilization and Democratization: Renewing the Transatlantic Alliance” by Zachary Selden
• “The Moral Equality of Combatants” by Carl Ceulemans

British American Security Information Council (BASIC)

• Biological Weapons Update. http://www.basicint.org/update/BWU080103.htm

Brookings

• Assassination Aftermath. http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2007/1227_bhutto_cohen.aspx
• Assassination Raises Fears of Renewed Turmoil in Pakistan. http://www.brookings.edu/interviews/2007/1227_bhutto_cohen.aspx
• Central Asia: A New Hub of Global Integration. http://www.brookings.edu/articles/2007/1129_central_asia_linn.aspx
• Humanitarian Imperatives are Transforming Sovereignty. http://www.brookings.edu/articles/2008/winter_humanitarian_cohen.aspx
• Terrorism In Pakistan. http://www.brookings.edu/interviews/2007/1227_pakistan_riedel.aspx

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Incumbent Regimes and the "King’s Dilemma" in the Arab World: Promise and Threat of Managed Reform. https://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/cp88_ruling_parties_final1.pdf

Center for Defense Information (CDI)

• Star Wars - Still No Good Reason For It. http://www.cdi.org/program/document.cfm?DocumentID=4168&from_page=../index.cfm

Center for Security Policy

• Gordon England's War. http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/home.aspx?sid=140&categoryid=140&subcategoryid=142

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• Commentary: The Security Impact of the Bhutto Assassination. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071227_cordesman_commentary.pdf
• Critical Questions: China–North Korea Relations. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/080103_cq_glaser_chinanorthkorea.pdf
• Keeping an Eye on an Unruly Neighbor: Chinese Views of Economic Reform and Stability in North Korea. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071227_wp_china_northkorea.pdf
  

Committee on the Present Danger

• Iran's Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities: Let the Head Scratching Begin (or Continue). http://www.committeeonthepresentdanger.org/IRANSNUCLEARINTENTIONSANDCAPABILITIES/tabid/702/Default.aspx

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• Background Paper: How CBO Projects the Real Rate of Interest on 10-Year Treasury Notes. http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdoc.cfm?index=8842&type=1

Department of Defense

• A Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between DoD and DoS was signed on Dec 7, 2007 to clearly define the authority and responsibility for the accountability and operations of USG Private Security Contractors (PSCs) in Iraq. http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/pdfs/Signed%20MOA%20Dec%205%202007.pdf

Department of Defense Inspector General

• D-2008-029 Request for and Use of Emergency Supplemental Funds for the Rapid Fielding Initiative. http://www.dodig.mil/Audit/reports/FY08/08-029.pdf

Foreign Policy

• Seven Questions: Gen. David Petraeus on Winding down the Surge. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4127

Foreign Policy Research Institute

• After the Surge: The Only Iraq Worth Fighting For. http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200712.mines.aftersurge.html
• Democratic Transitions: Case Studies from Asia. http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200712.ginsburg.democratictransitionscasestudiesasia.html

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Army Corps of Engineers: Known Performance Issues with New Orleans Drainage Canal Pumps Have Been Addressed, but Guidance on Future Contracts Is Needed. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08288.pdf
• Border Security: Despite Progress, Weaknesses in Traveler Inspections Exist at Our Nation's Ports of Entry, by Richard M. Stana, director, homeland security and justice issues, before the House Committee on Homeland Security, in El Paso, Texas. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08329t.pdf
• Defense Trade: State Department Needs to Conduct Assessments to Identify and Address Inefficiencies and Challenges in the Arms Export Process. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0889.pdf
• Government Auditing Standards-Implementation Tool: Professional Requirements Tool for Use in Implementing Requirements Identified by "Must" and "Should" in the July 2007 Revision of Government Auditing Standards. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08210g.pdf
• "U.S. Financial Condition and Fiscal Future Briefing," by David M. Walker, Comptroller General of the United States, at the 2008 Economic Forecast Forum sponsored by the North Carolina Bankers Association and North Carolina Chamber, in Research Triangle Park, N.C. http://www.gao.gov/cghome/d08395cg.pdf

Heritage Foundation

• Achieving Change: What We Can Learn from Margaret Thatcher. http://www.heritage.org/Research/WorldwideFreedom/upload/hl_1000.pdf
• China's Superpower Economy. http://www.heritage.org/Research/AsiaandthePacific/upload/wm_1762.pdf
• Grassroots Disaster Response: Harnessing the Capacities of Communities. http://www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/upload/bg_2094.pdf
• Pakistan: Bhutto Assassination Underscores Need for Political Reconciliation. http://www.heritage.org/Research/AsiaandthePacific/wm1761.cfm

Hudson Institute

• Broken Pendulum: Bangladesh's Swing to Radicalism by Maneeza Hossain. http://www.hudson.org/files/documents/Maneeza_Bangladesh.pdf

International Crisis Group

• After Bhutto's Murder: A Way Forward for Pakistan. http://www.crisisgroup.org/library/documents/asia/b74_pakistan_bhutto.pdf
• “Pakistan Elections: Will They Be Fair and Free or Fundamentally Flawed?” Testimony by Mark L. Schneider, Senior Vice-President, International Crisis Group, to the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 20 December 2007 http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=5243&l=1

Pew Global Attitudes Project

• Despite Progress and an Upbeat Pre-Election Mood, Ethnic Conflicts Have Long Worried Many Kenyans. http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001j3TclcGNOkBzj85Ds4Oe0vv9RuX-1F3SjzSzwIf-Mgg6pI7_fDccFx-LZc5YspmnynGrEOuqclEkk_PC5IDM3ZHPFlp9Zl1dJTtbP2rOh1ry0MWyCpGEe5gdEvSXUHaBrdukc51lkN8=
• View from Pakistan: Before Bhutto's Assassination, Public Opinion Was Increasingly Opposed to Terrorism. http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001AelaOWwDohf8uWtS4P8zj1UkdFQ836KE0zS61JmzRYyLoREeopiOniQ62GaZJPMaLakrLS4LvPUvnWyEqm5dL3jdRsakk8yxqD28ttF8Vwu8FiYz2YL5LKKoylaayJt-t8NBUGpkdLoxGxn2I_0uAApx2u64VGxYNkzO_7HwuT-mvPHHI76sCLfyQbZNa_3yTi7NX9Fmg2DtCKdq8DXA84ql2sbwgF8gzYGcEBva8lLGG2YQcl4VsT3QKK5wqbpWkvNvWLirC5I=

Pew Internet & American Life Project

• In Search of Solutions: How People use the Internet, Libraries, and Government Agencies to Find Help. http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/Pew_UI_LibrariesReport.pdf
• Teens and Social Media. http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Teens_Social_Media_Final.pdf

Rand

• Remuneration and Its Motivation of UK Military Personnel. http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/2008/RAND_RB9308.pdf

Strategic Studies Institute

• Intrepidity . . . And Character Development within the Army Profession. http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB847.pdf
• Jordanian National Security and the Future of Middle East Stability. http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB838.pdf
• Overcoming the Obstacles to Establishing a Democratic State in Afghanistan. http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB818.pdf
• Sustaining the Peace After Civil War. http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB819.pdf

United States Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM)

• Joint Operating Environment: Trends & Challenges for the Future Joint Force Through 2030. http://www.freewebs.com/usmsa/JOE_v1%209(14Dec07).pdf

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• Raising the Costs for Tehran. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2700

Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control

• In China We Trust? http://www.wisconsinproject.org/pubs/reports/2007/inchinawetrust.pdf

MOA Between DoD and the Department of State on USG Private Security Contractors

A Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between DoD and DoS was signed on Dec 7,
2007 to clearly define the authority and responsibility for the accountability and operations of USG Private Security Contractors (PSCs) in Iraq.

This MOA can be found at
http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/pdfs/Signed%20MOA%20Dec%205%202007.pdf

or from http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/