Friday's Miscellany 08-29-2008

Air Force Space Command (AFSPC)
High Frontier Journal, August 2008, v. 4, no. 4

• National Security Space Collaboration as a National Defense Imperative by Mr. Scott F. Large
• Mission Assurance—A Key Part of Space Vehicle Launch Mission Success by Maj Gen Ellen M. Pawlikowski
• Building an Integrated Intelligence Network: Challenges and Opportunities by Dr. Pete Rustan
  Transforming National Space Security: Enabling DoD and Intelligence Community Defensive Space Control Collaboration by BG Jeffrey C. Horne
• Reflections on the Integration of Black and White Space by Brig Gen Katherine E. Roberts
  National Security Space – A Personal Perspective: An Interview with General Thomas S. Moorman Jr., USAF, Retired by Mr. George W. Bradley III and Dr. Rick Sturdevant
• National Security Space Collaboration Constructing a National Security Space Plan by Mr. Joseph D. Rouge
• Assuring Access to Space: The Partnership Continues by Col John G. Stizza
• Common Language, Common Culture: How the Space Community Must Change Language and Perspective to Achieve Cross-Domain Integration and Dominance by Lt Col Dana Flood
• Rescuing Apollo: Building Consensus toward a National Strategy for Space by Maj Patrick A. Brown

American Enterprise Institute

• Situation Report, Russo-Georgian Conflict

BASIC

• The Dilemma between Deterrence and Disarmament: Moving beyond the Perception of China as a Nuclear Threat
• Iran Update, No. 124

Brookings Institution

• 7 Years to Climate Midnight

Center for American Progress

• The Terrorism Index

Center for Defense Information

• U.S. Policy Brief: The Need for a Strategic Dialogue with China

Center for Security Studies (CSS)

• Linking Environment and Conflict Prevention: The Role of the United Nations

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

• The Challenges to U.S. National Security
• Defense Investment Strategies in an Uncertain World
• The Future Security Environment
• Future Security Environment Presentation
• Investment Strategies Presentation
• Strategic Competence Presentation
• U.S. Combat Training, Operational Art, and Strategic Competence
• U.S. Defense Budget—Options and Choices for the Long Haul

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)

• Abandon Ships: The Costly Illusion of Unaffordable Transformation
• Commentary: Conditions-Based U.S. Withdrawals from Iraq
• Issues & Insights Vol. 08 - No. 12 - August 21, 2008
  Promoting the Southeast Asia Weapons Free Zone

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

• Pandemic Influenza Storybook: Personal Recollections from Survivors, Families, and Friends

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

• A Life in Intelligence - The Richard Helms Collection

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

• Russia's Security Ties in Asia

Department of Energy

• Next Generation Nuclear Plant Licensing Strategy: A Report to Congress

Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)

• Conference Call with Dr. Ronald Sanders, Associate Director of National Intelligence for Human Capital: Results of the Fiscal Year 2007 U.S. Intelligence Community Inventory of Core Contractor Personnel

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

• How We Misunderstand Terrorism

German Development Institute (DIE)

• The EU's Central Asia Policy and its Implications for China
• Poor and Powerful: The Rise of China and India and the Implications for Europe
• Reforms in the EU's Aid Architecture and Management

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• FAA Airspace Redesign: An Analysis of the New York/New Jersey/Philadelphia Project
• Grants Management: Attention Needed to Address Undisbursed Balances in Expired Grant Accounts
  Hurricane Katrina: Continuing Debris Removal and Disposal Issues
• Military Personnel: DOD's and the Coast Guard's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Programs Face Implementation and Oversight Challenges http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08924.pdf

Heritage Foundation

• Challenges on the U.S.–Mexico Border: A Panel Discussion
• The EU Must Express Solidarity with Georgia at Its Emergency Summit
• Europe's Catalogue of Failures in Georgia
• Exploring Concepts of Liberty in Islam
• Real Solutions for Challenges on the Mexico-U.S. Border: The Mérida Initiative
• Russia's Recognition of Independence for South Ossetia and Abkhazia Is Illegitimate: They Are Not Kosovo

Human Rights Watch

• Georgia: Satellite Images Show Destruction, Ethnic Attacks

Institute for Security Studies

• Democracy Yet to Take Root in Burundi

International Association of Chiefs of Police

• "To Protect and Defend": Challenges to Public Safety and Homeland Security Facing the Next U.S. President

International Crisis Group

• Burundi: Restarting Political Dialogue
• Russia vs Georgia: The Fallout
• Thailand: Political Turmoil and the Southern Insurgency

International Relations and Security Network

• Global Trends: A Perfect Storm
• ME Space Race Heats Up
• Nepal: Starting on the Wrong Foot
• The New Map of Georgia
• Peru on Alert
• Russia, Iran: Crisis of the West
• US: Cyberwar Turf Battle Continues

Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS)

• Recent Terror Blasts in India: How Should We Respond?
• Structural Roots of Authoritarianism in Pakistan

Jamestown Foundation

• NATO Ministerial Meeting Deals Gingerly with Russia's War on Georgia

Lexington Institute

• Sea-Based Missile Defense: Expanding the Options (A Joint Study by the Center for American Progress and the Lexington Institute)

Mother Jones

• Mission Creep: Interactive Map of US Military Presence Throughout the World

National Academies Press

• The Offshoring of Engineering: Facts, Unknowns, and Potential Implications

RAND

• Dangerous Thresholds: Managing Escalation in the 21st Century
• An Examination of Options to Reduce Underway Training Days Through the Use of Simulation
• Improving the Cost Estimation of Space Systems
• Insights on Aircraft Programmed Depot Maintenance: An Analysis of F-15 PDM

Henry L Stimson Center

• The Georgian Conflict: More than a US-Russia Showdown
• The Political Economy of Hydropower Dam Construction in Vietnam

Strategic Studies Institute

• The American Military Advisor: Dealing with Senior Foreign Officials in the Islamic World
• U.S. Counterterrorism in Sub-Saharan Africa: Understanding Costs, Cultures, and Conflicts

UN Office of Drugs and Crime

• Afghanistan Opium Survey 2008
• Map of Opium Cultivation in 2008 in Afghanistan

US Coast Guard

• Command, Control, Communication, Computers and Information Technology (C4&IT) Strategic Plan

US Institute of Peace

• Depoliticizing Zimbabwe’s Economy: Solutions for Two Million Percent

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• Amman Warms to Hamas
• The Future of U.S. Assistance to Egypt