Friday's Miscellany 05-30-2008

Air University
Strategic Studies Quarterly, Summer 2008. v. 2, no. 2
http://www.maxwell.af.mil/au/ssq/2008/Summer/Summer08.pdf
· "Understanding Requirements of Future Strategy" by Col P. Mason Carpenter I, USAF
· "An Airman's Perspective: Air, Space, and Cyberspace Strategy for the Pacific ' by Gen Howie Chandler, USAF
· "Ballistic Missile Defense: A National Priority" by Jeff Sessions
· "The Drawdown Asymmetry: Why Ground Forces Will Depart Iraq but Air Forces Will Stay" by Lt Col Clint "Q" Hinote, USAF
· "Why the Bush Administration Invaded Iraq: Making Strategy after 9/11” by Jeffrey Record
· "Genocide and Airpower" by Douglas Peifer

American Enterprise Institute
· Between Foreigners and Shi'is. http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.28056/pub_detail.asp
· Contemporary Politics in the Middle East. http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.28057/pub_detail.asp
· Economic Integration and Incipient Democracy. http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.27707/pub_detail.asp

Amnesty International
· Amnesty International Report 2008 http://thereport.amnesty.org/eng/download-report

BASIC
· Open Letter to the UK Government on Iran. http://www.basicint.org/pubs/openlet.pdf

Brookings Institution
· The Changing Nature of State Sponsorship of Terrorism http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2008/05_terrorism_byman.aspx
· Five Observations on Natural Disasters. http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2008/0515_natural_disasters_ferris.aspx
· Taking Back our Fiscal Future http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2008/04_fiscal_future.aspx?emc=lm&m=215851&l=23&v=802471
· Unfinished Business: U.S. Overseas Military Presence in the 21st Century http://www.brookings.edu/reports/2008/06_military_ohanlon.aspx

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
· Over a Barrel: Exiting from NAFTA's Proportionality Clause http://www.ualberta.ca/PARKLAND/research/studies/OverABarrel.pdf

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
· Kuwait’s 2008 Parliamentary Elections: A Setback for Democratic Islamism? http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/brown_kuwait2.pdf

CATO
· Asset Bubbles and Their Consequences. http://www.cato.org/pubs/bp/bp103.pdf
· The Klein Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Polemics. http://www.cato.org/pubs/bp/bp102.pdf

James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies
· International Reactions: What if Israel Attacks Iran? http://www.cns.miis.edu/pubs/week/080522_israel.htm

Center for Security Policy
· Israel's Staticide? http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/home.aspx?sid=140&categoryid=140&subcategoryid=141
· Straighter talk needed on nuclear deterrence. http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/home.aspx?sid=140&categoryid=140&subcategoryid=142

Center for Strategic and International Studies
· Iraqi Force Development 2008. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/080527_isf_report.pdf
· The U.S.-Russia Civil Nuclear Agreement: A Framework for Cooperation. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/080522-einhorn-u.s.-russia-web.pdf

Center for European Reform
· Can Europe and China Shape a New World Order? http://www.cer.org.uk/pdf/p_837.pdf

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
· Accounting for Sources of Projected Growth in Federal Spending on Medicare and Medicaid http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=9316&type=1
· Evidence on the Costs and Benefits of Health Information Technology http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=9168
· Health Care and Behavioral Economics http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=9317&type=1

Council on Foreign Relations
· Food Failures and Futures http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/CGS_WorkingPaper_2.pdf
· Hezbollah's Shadow War http://www.cfr.org/publication/16382/hezbollahs_shadow_war.html?breadcrumb=%2F
· Iran Needs to Come Clean on Nuclear Military Plans http://www.cfr.org/publication/16373/more_direct_approach_to_iran.html?breadcrumb=%2F
· U.S. Latin America Relations: A New Direction for a New Reality http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/LatinAmerica_TF.pdf

Foreign Policy Research Institute
· Some European Perspectives on Terrorism. http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200805.burleigh.europeanperspectivesterrorism.html
· The Zimbabwe Elections. http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200806.jones.zimbabweelection.html

Fraser Institute
· Immigration Policy and the Terrorist Threat in Canada and the United States http://www.fraserinstitute.org/Commerce.Web/product_files/ImmigrationPolicyTerroristThreatCanadaUS.pdf
German Development Institute (DIE)
· International Relations in 2030: The Transformative Power of Large Developing Countries http://www.isn.ethz.ch/pubs/ph/details.cfm?id=54542

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· Bureau of the Public Debt: Areas for Improvement in Information Security Controls http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08625r.pdf
· Department of Defense Pilot Authority for Acquiring Information Technology Services under OMB Circular A-76 http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08753r.pdf
· DOD Health Care: Mental Health and Traumatic Brain Injury Screening Efforts Implemented, but Consistent Pre-Deployment Medical Record Review Policies Needed http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08615.pdf
· Federal Disability Programs: More Strategic Coordination Could Help Overcome Challenges to Needed Transformation http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08635.pdf
· Force Structure: Ship Rotational Crewing Initiatives Would Benefit from Top-Level Leadership, Navy-wide Guidance, Comprehensive Analysis, and Improved Lessons-Learned Sharing http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08418.pdf
· Information Security: FDIC Sustains Progress but Needs to Improve Configuration Management of Key Financial Systems http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08564.pdf
· International Food Security: Insufficient Efforts by Host Governments and Donors Threaten Progress to Halve Hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2015 http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08680.pdf
· Military Personnel: DOD Needs Data to Determine if Active Duty Service Has an Impact on the Ability of Guard and Reservists to Maintain Their Civilian Professional Licenses or Certificates http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08790r.pdf
· Military Readiness: Joint Policy Needed to Better Manage the Training and Use of Certain Forces to Meet Operational Demands http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08670.pdf
· Review of the President's Fiscal Year 2009 Budget Request for the Defense Health Program's Private Sector Care Budget Activity Group. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08721r.pdf
· Supply Chain Security: U.S. Customs and Border Protection Has Enhanced Its Partnership with Import Trade Sectors, but Challenges Remain in Verifying Security Practices http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08240.pdf
· Veterans' Benefits: Increased Focus on Evaluation and Accountability Would Enhance Training and Performance Management for Claims Processors. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08561.pdf

Heritage Foundation
· Argentina Farmers Strike: Refusing to Foot the Bill for the Kirchners’ Populist Politics. http://www.heritage.org/Research/LatinAmerica/upload/wm_1938.pdf

Human Rights First
· In Pursuit of Justice—Prosecuting Terror Cases in the Federal Courts http://www.humanrightsfirst.info/pdf/080522-USLS-pj-exec-sum.pdf

Human Rights Watch
· "They Shot at Us as We Fled": Government Attacks on Civilians in West Darfur in February 2008. http://hrw.org/reports/2008/darfur0508/darfur0508webwcover.pdf

Institute for Science and International Security
· AEA Safeguards Report on Iran: Centrifuge Operation Improving and Cooperation Lacking on Weaponization Issues. http://www.isis-online.org/publications/iran/ISIS_Iran_IAEA_Report_29May2008.pdf

International Compact with Iraq
· The International Compact with Iraq: A New Beginning [annual review May 2007-April 2008] http://www.iraqcompact.org/annualreview/ICI%20Annual%20Review%202007-8.pdf

International Relations and Security Network
· EU, China: Honeymoon is Over http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=19016
· Global Warming, an Unsettled Science http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=19026
· Israel: Defense Boom Seeks Wiggle Room http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=19021
· The Serbian Socialists' Dilemma http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=19011

Lexington Institute
· Tanker Controversy: Questions the Air Force Must Answer http://lexingtoninstitute.org/1268.shtml

Natural Defense Resources Council
· The Cost of Climate Change: What We'll Pay if Global Warming Continues Unchecked http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/cost/cost.pdf

Office of the Director of National Intelligence
· PDDNI Addresses the Washington Institute for Near East Policy http://www.dni.gov/speeches/20080529_speech.pdf

RAND
· Afghanistan: State and Society, Great Power Politics, and the Way Ahead: Findings from an International Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2007 http://www.rand.org/pubs/conf_proceedings/2008/RAND_CF238.pdf
· Breaking the Failed-State Cycle http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/2008/RAND_OP204.pdf
· The Challenges of Trying Terrorists as Criminals: Proceedings of a RAND/SAIS Colloquium. http://rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2008/RAND_CF249.pdf
· Developing Senior Navy Leaders: Requirements for Flag Officer Expertise Today and in the Future. http://rand.org/pubs/monographs/2008/RAND_MG618.pdf
· Doctrine of Eternal Recurrence -- The U.S. Military and Counterinsurgency Doctrine, 1960-1970 and 2003-2006: RAND Counterinsurgency Study -- Paper 6. http://rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/2008/RAND_OP200.pdf
· The Malay-Muslim Insurgency in Southern Thailand -- Understanding the Conflict's Evolving Dynamic: RAND Counterinsurgency Study -- Paper 5. http://rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/2008/RAND_OP198.pdf
· Planning for Diversity: Options and Recommendations for DoD Leaders. http://rand.org/pubs/monographs/2008/RAND_MG743.pdf
· RAND Transportation Researcher Guide. http://rand.org/pubs/corporate_pubs/2008/RAND_CP540.1-2008-05.pdf
· Timely Assistance: Evaluating the Speed of Road Home Grantmaking http://www.rand.org/pubs/documented_briefings/2008/RAND_DB557.pdf

Strategic Studies Institute
· Borders: Technology and Security--Strategic Responses to New Challenges. http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB865.pdf

University of Arizona
· Undocumented Immigrants in U.S.-Mexico Border Counties http://www.bordercounties.org/vertical/Sites/%7BB4A0F1FF-7823-4C95-8D7A-F5E400063C73%7D/uploads/%7B690801CA-CEE6-413C-AC8B-A00DA765D96E%7D.PDF

US Department of Agriculture
· Economic Impact of Foreign Animal Disease http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/err57/err57.pdf
· The Effects of Climate Change on Agriculture, Land Resources, Water Resources, and Biodiversity in the United States http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap4-3/final-report/default.htm

US Institute of Peace (USIP)
· USIP Dialogue on Media and Conflict in Iraq Spawns Call for Partnership http://www.usip.org/iraq/istanbul_declaration.html
· Half Full or Half Empty: Assessing Prospects for Peace in Lebanon http://www.usip.org/pubs/usipeace_briefings/2008/0530_peace_lebanon.html
· Iraq’s Interior Ministry: Frustrating Reform http://www.usip.org/pubs/usipeace_briefings/2008/0523_iraq_interior_ministry.html