Friday's Miscellany 02-15-2008

American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

• What If?: A World Without a U.S.-ROK Alliance

Amnesty International

• Cambodia Burns Homes of the Poor
  

Brookings

• Facing Protectionism Generated By Trade Disputes: China’s Post-WTO Blues
• Fires, Floods, Earthquakes and Tsunamis: A Human Rights Perspective for Major Natural Disasters
• Inauguration of Lee Myung-bak: Grappling with Korea’s Future Challenges
• Iraqi Internal Displacement and International Law
• North Korea Now: Will the Clock Be Turned Back?
• Protecting Darfur’s Internally Displaced
• Russia's Virtual Economy
• The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Japan: Moving Together to Reshape the Eurasian Community
  

Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute

• Military Transformation: Key Aspects and Canadian Approaches

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Assessing Secretary of State Rice's Reform of U.S. Foreign Assistance
  

Combating Terrorism Center

• CTC Sentinel, v. 1, no. 3 (February 2008)
• Counter-Terrorism Issues for the Next President By Richard Clarke and Rob Knake
• U.S. Security Assistance to Philippines: A Success Story Against Terrorism By Peter Chalk
• Takeovers of Moderate Muslim Institutions: Radical Islamist Tactics at the Local Level By Madeleine Gruen
• Radical Madrasas in Southeast Asia By Scott Atran, Justin Magouirk & Jeremy Ginges
• The Salafi-Jihad as a Religious Ideology By Assaf Moghadam
• Somalia’s al-Shabab Reconstitutes Fighting Force By Anonymous
• Deconstructing the Myth about al-Qa`ida and Khobar By Thomas Hegghammer
• Return of the Arabs: Al-Qa`ida’s Military Role in the Afghan Insurgency By Brian Williams
• After Action Report: An Army Lieutenant’s View of AQI’s Operations in al-Khidr and Hanaswa By First Lieutenant Jon Patrick Cheatwood
• Recent Highlights in Terrorist Activity

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• Analysis of the Growth in Funding for Operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Elsewhere in the War on Terrorism
• Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending
• Policy Options for Reducing CO2 Emissions
• Technological Change and the Growth of Health Care Spending
• Update of CBO's Economic Forecast
  

CATO

• Learning the Right Lessons from Iraq

Center for Defense Information

• Afghanistan Update: Jan. 1-31, 2008

Center for Security Policy

• Tehran Threat in the US' Backyard

Center for Strategic and International Studies

• Current Questions about the U.S. Political Scene Posed by Mexicans
• Letter to General Rodriguez on the situation in Afghanistan
• The Situation in Iraq: A Briefing from the Battlefield

Council on Foreign Relations

• A Crucial Vote in Pakistan
• President Bush Travels to Africa
• Profile: Imad Mugniyah
• Resolving African Conflicts
  

Defense Science Board (DSB)

• The Defense Science Board Permanent Task Force on Nuclear Surety: Report on the Unauthorized Movement of Nuclear Weapons
• Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on DoD Energy Strategy "More Fight - Less Fuel"

Director of National Intelligence

• DNI Statement for the Record - Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
• DNI's CNN American Morning Interview
• DNI’s Op-Ed in the Washington Post
  

EU Institute for Security Studies (ISS)

• Crisis in Chad: Implications for the EU

Federation of American Scientists

• Iranian Nuclear Science Bibliography: Open Literature References
• Toward True Security: Ten Steps the Next President Should Take to transform U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy

Foreign Policy Research Institute

• Dissent and Strategic Leadership of the Military Professions
• Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism
  

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Department of Homeland Security: Progress Made in Implementation of Management and Mission Functions, but More Work Remains, by David M. Walker, comptroller general of the United States, before the Subcommittee on Homeland Security, House Committee on Appropriations
• DOD Personnel Clearances: DOD Faces Multiple Challenges in Its Efforts to Improve Clearance Processes for Industry Personnel, by Jack E. Edwards, Acting Director, Defense Capabilities and Management, before the Subcommittee on Readiness, House Committee on Armed Services
• DOD Personnel Clearances: Improved Annual Reporting Would Enable More Informed Congressional Oversight
• Emergency Transit Assistance: Federal Funding for Recent Disasters, and Options for the Future
• Federal Government's Financial Health: A Citizen's Guide to the 2007 Financial Report of the U.S. Government
• Health Information Technology: HHS Is Pursuing Efforts to Advance Nationwide Implementation, but Has Not Defined a National Strategy, by Valerie C. Melvin, Director, Human Capital and Management Information Systems Issues, before the Senate Committee on the Budget
• Hydrogen Fuel Initiative: DOE Has Made Important Progress and Involved Stakeholders but Needs to Update What It Expects to Achieve by Its 2015 Target
• Information Security: Although Progress Reported, Federal Agencies Need to Resolve Significant Deficiencies, by Gregory C. Wilshusen, Director, Information Security Issues, before a joint hearing of the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement, and the Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National Archives, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
• Los Alamos National Laboratory: Information on Security of Classified Data, Nuclear Material Controls, Nuclear and Worker Safety, and Project Management Weaknesses
• Military Readiness: Impact of Current Operations and Actions Needed to Rebuild Readiness of U.S. Ground Forces, by Sharon L. Pickup, Director, Defense Capabilities and Management, before the House Committee on Armed Services
• Nuclear Security: Action May Be Needed to Reassess the Security of NRC-Licensed Research Reactors
• Runway Safety: Progress on Reducing Runway Incursions Impeded by Leadership, Technology, and Other Challenges, by Gerald L. Dillingham, Director, Physical Infrastructure Issues, before the Subcommittee on Aviation, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
• "Saving Our Future Requires Tough Choices Today," by David M. Walker, Comptroller General of the United States, at the Heritage Foundation Conservative Members Retreat, in Baltimore, Maryland
• "Saving Our Future Requires Tough Choices Today," by David M. Walker, Comptroller General of the United States, before the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, in Princeton, New Jersey
• Wildland Fire Management: Federal Agencies Lack Key Long- and Short-Term Management Strategies for Using Program Funds Effectively, by Robin M. Nazzaro, Director, Natural Resources and Environment, before the Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, House Committee on Appropriations

Heritage Foundation

• Combating Enemies Online: State-Sponsored and Terrorist Use of the Internet
• Death of a Terrorist: Imad Mugniyah
• Defense Trade Cooperation Treaties with Australia and the U.K. Will Improve Security
• The Heritage Foundation's Research on FISA
• A Neighbor Calls: Mexican President Calderón Visits the U.S.
• Russia on the March: The Return of the Red Square Parades
• Trojan Dragon: China's Cyber Threat
• U.S. Public Diplomacy: The Search for a National Strategy

Human Rights Watch

• Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission: A Critical Assessment
• The Torture of Tasneem Khalil: How the Bangladesh Military Abuses Its Power under the State of Emergency

International Crisis Group

• Political Murder in Central Asia: No Time to End Uzbekistan’s Isolation

ISN Security Watch

• Djibouti in Eye of the Storm

Joint Chiefs of Staff

• Detainee Operations [Joint Pub 3-63]

Lexington Institute

• Fading Signal: The Neglect of Electronic Warfare
  

Long War Journal

• Inside Iraqi Politics – Part 3. Examining the Legislative Branch

Pew Research Center

• U.S. Population Projections: 2005-2050

Potomac Institute

• Conflict in the 21st Century: The Rise of Hybrid Wars

Rand

• War by Other Means -- Building Complete and Balanced Capabilities for Counterinsurgency: RAND Counterinsurgency Study -- Final Report
• Counterinsurgency in Iraq (2003-2006): RAND Counterinsurgency Study -- Volume 2.
• Portfolio-Analysis Methods for Assessing Capability Options
• Ungoverned Territories, Testimony by Angel Rabasa presented before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs on February 14, 2008

U.S. Coast Guard (USCG)

• ADM Allen's remarks at the National Press Club on the State of the Coast Guard [video file]
• US Coast Guard Posture Statement 2008
• USCG Budget Request FY 2009

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• The Final Year: End-of-Term Presidents and the Middle East