Saturday, April 12, 2008

Friday's Miscellany 04-11-2008

American Enterprise Institute
· AEI Petraeus-Crocker Hearings Advisory: Kagan Iraq Report
http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.27686/pub_detail.asp
· Cuba the Morning After
http://www.aei.org/books/bookID.328/book_detail.asp
· Iran's Global Ambition
http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.27658/pub_detail.asp

American Foreign Policy Council
· Missile defense priorities: the view from Congress: Senator Jon Kyl
http://www.afpc.org/KylBMD2008.pdf
· Russia Reform Monitor
http://www.afpc.org/rrm/rrm1544.htm
· China Reform Monitor
http://www.afpc.org/crm/crm688.htm
· Missile Defense Briefing Report
http://www.afpc.org/mdbr/mdbr240.htm
· Iran Democracy Monitor
http://www.afpc.org/idm/idm69.htm

Center for Defense Information
· Are MIRVs and Satellite Integration and Dispensation Mutually Inclusive?
http://www.cdi.org/PDFs/IndiaMIRV.pdf

James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies Monterey Institute of International Studies
· Taiwan's Presidential Election and its Impact on Cross-Strait Relations and Regional Security
http://www.cns.miis.edu/pubs/week/pdf_support/080404_taiwanelectionreview.pdf

Center for Security Policy
· Required reading: Doug Feith
http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/home.aspx?sid=140&categoryid=140&subcategoryid=141
· China displaces the U.S. at Ecuador's Manta Base
http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/home.aspx?sid=140&categoryid=140&subcategoryid=142

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
· Facilitating a Dialogue among Senior-Level DoD Officials on National Security Priorities: A Methodological Note - A Beyond Goldwater-Nichols Phase 4 Report
http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/080404_bgn_phase4.pdf
· Iraq and the Crocker-Petraeus Testimony: The Risks that Only Time and a Sustained US Presence Can Deal With
http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/080407_iraq_and_reasons.pdf
· The Ongoing Lessons of the Afghan and Iraq Wars
http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/080407_afgh-iraqlessonbrief.pdf

Congress. Armed Services Committees [Petraeus and Crocker hearings]
· Senate [April 8th]
http://armed-services.senate.gov/e_witnesslist.cfm?id=3237
· House [April 9th]
http://www.house.gov/hasc/hearing_information.shtml

Council on Foreign Relations
· Five Years of War in Iraq (Interactive)
http://www.cfr.org/publication/15702/five_years_of_war_in_iraq.html?breadcrumb=%2F
· Petraeus, Crocker Gird for Assault on the Hill
http://www.cfr.org/publication/15935/petraeus_crocker_gird_for_assault_on_the_hill.html?breadcrumb=%2F

Defense Personnel Security Research Center
· Changes in Espionage by Americans: 1947-2007
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http://www.fas.org/sgp/library/changes.pdf

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)
· Report on the Cost, Oversight, and Impact of Congressional Earmarks
http://www.dodig.mil/Audit/reports/fy08/08-073.pdf

Foreign Policy Research Institute
· An Israeli View of the Iranian Nuclear Challenge
http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200804.inbar.israeliviewiraniannuclearchallenge.html
· Robert Kaplan on the New Balance of Power http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200804.kuehner.kaplannewbalanceofpower.html

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· Defense Acquisitions: 2009 Review of Future Combat System Is Critical to Program's Direction
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08638t.pdf
· Department of Homeland Security: Progress Made in Implementation of Management Functions, but More Work Remains
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08646t.pdf
· Electronic Government: Additional OMB Leadership Needed to Optimize Use of New Federal Employee Identification Cards
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08292.pdf
· Employee Security: Implementation of Identification Cards and DOD's Personnel Security Clearance Program Need Improvement
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08551t.pdf
· Force Structure: Restructuring and Rebuilding the Army Will Cost Billions of Dollars for Equipment but the Total Cost Is Uncertain
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08669t.pdf
· Governmentwide Purchase Cards: Actions Needed to Strengthen Internal Controls to Reduce Fraudulent, Improper, and Abusive Purchases
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08333.pdf
· International Trade: U.S. Trade Preference Programs Provide Important Benefits, but a More Integrated Approach Would Better Ensure Programs Meet Shared Goals
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08443.pdf
· Internet Sales: Undercover Purchases on eBay and Craigslist Reveal a Market for Sensitive and Stolen U.S. Military Items
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08644t.pdf

The Heritage Foundation
· African Development: Promise and Peril
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Africa/upload/hl_1074.pdf
· Lessons Learned from the Basra Fighting for the Iraq Hearings
http://www.heritage.org/Research/MiddleEast/wm1887.cfm

Human Rights First
· Arbitrary Justice—Trials of Guantanamo and Bagram Detainees in Afghanistan
http://www.humanrightsfirst.info/pdf/USLS-080409-arbitray-justice-report.pdf

Human Rights Watch
· Cluster Munitions and the Proportionality Test: Memorandum to Delegates of the Convention on Conventional Weapons
http://hrw.org/backgrounder/arms/arms0408/
· Five Years On: No Justice for Sexual Violence in Darfur
http://hrw.org/reports/2008/darfur0408/darfur0408webwcover.pdf
· Benchmarks, Consultations and Transparency: Making the EU Central Asia Strategy an Effective Tool for Human Rights Improvements
http://hrw.org/backgrounder/2008/ca0408/ca0408web.pdf
· Double Jeopardy: CIA Renditions to Jordan
http://hrw.org/reports/2008/jordan0408/jordan0408webwcover.pdf

International Crisis Group
· Armenia: Picking up the Pieces
http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=5385&l=1
· Kyrgyzstan: The Challenge of Judicial Reform
http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=5387&l=1

Lexington Institute
· FCS: The Logic of Future Combat Systems
http://lexingtoninstitute.org/docs/808.pdf

National Security Archive
· Fighting the War in Southeast Asia, 1961-1973
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB248/index.htm

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
· The al-qaeda Media Nexus: The Virtual Network Behind the Global Message
http://docs.rferl.org/en-US/AQ_Media_Nexus.pdf

RAND
· Finding Candidate Options for Investment: From Building Blocks to Composite Options and Preliminary Screening
http://rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2008/RAND_TR501.pdf
· Increasing Aircraft Carrier Forward Presence: Changing the Length of the Maintenance Cycle
http://rand.org/pubs/monographs/2008/RAND_MG706.pdf
· Radicalization or Rehabilitation: Understanding the Challenge of Extremist and Radicalized prisoners
http://rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2008/RAND_TR571.pdf
· Small Ships in Theater Security Cooperation
http://rand.org/pubs/monographs/2008/RAND_MG698.pdf
· Turkey as a U.S. Security Partner
http://rand.org/pubs/monographs/2008/RAND_MG694.pdf

Symantec
· Symamtec Global Internet Security Threat Report Vol. 13
http://www.symantec.com/business/theme.jsp?themeid=threatreport

United States Institute of Peace
· Iraq After the Surge: Options and Questions
http://www.usip.org/pubs/usipeace_briefings/2008/iraq_surge.pdf

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
· Who Won the Battle for Basra?
http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=

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