Friday's Miscellany 10-03-2008

American Enterprise Institute
• Iran's Revolutionary Guards--A Rogue Outfit?
• Meeting the Challenge: U.S. Policy toward Iranian Nuclear Development

American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)
• Campaign Finance in the United States
• Global Governance and the Role of NGOs in International Peace and Security
• Overcoming the Lethargy: Climate Change, Energy Security, and the Case for a Third Industrial Revolution

Amnesty International
• Congo: Armed Groups and Government Forces Continue to Abuse Women and Children in North Kivu
• Law Used Against Housing Activists in Cambodia

Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)
• Public Health Emergency Preparedness: Six Years of Achievement

Atlantic Council of the United States
• Restoring Georgia's Sovereignty in Abkhazia

BASIC
• NATO Nuclear Sharing: Opportunity for Change?
• The Nuclear Suppliers Group Waiver

Bipartisan Policy Center
• Meeting the Challenge: U.S. Policy Toward Iranian Nuclear Development

Brookings Institution
• Egypt’s Education System: Parents and Students Emerge as a New Force for Reform
• Iraqi Elections and Displacement

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Russia-Georgia Crisis

Center for American Progress
• The Coldest Days of the Cold War

Center for Defense Information
• Could U.S. Missile Defense Policy Restrict Access to ISS?

Center for European Reform
• India's Role in the New World Order

Center for Immigration Studies
• Taking Back the Streets: ICE and Local Law Enforcement Target Immigrant Gangs [this info page has links for the video and backgrounder reports] -- full report

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
• America's Self-Destroying Air Power: Becoming Your Own Peer Threat
• A Healthy Dose of Treaties

Center for the Study of Intelligence
• CIA's Relationship with Congress, 1946-2004

Central Asia-Caucasus Institute [Silk Road Studies]
• In Defense of Greater Central Asia
• Russia’s War in Georgia: Causes and Implications for Georgia and the World

Chatham House
• After the Battle: What the August War will mean for Russia's Domestic Politics
• The August 2008 Conflict: Economic Consequences for Russia
• The Paradoxical Regional Implications of Russian Actions in Georgia
• Piracy in Somalia: Threatening Global Trade, Feeding Local Wars
• Russia and Georgia: Culpabilities and Consequences
• Russia and Europe in the Aftermath of the Georgian Conflict: New Challenges, Old Paradigms
• US-Russian Relations After the Events of August 2008

Command and Control Research Program (CCRP)
• International C2 Journal, 2008, v. 2, no. 1 [Special Issue - " Awareness in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Operations "]

Congress. Committee on Homeland Security
• Compilation of Homeland Security Presidential Directives (HSPD) Updated Through December 31, 2008

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
• CBO's Analysis of Dodd Substitute Amendment for H.R. 1424
• Cost Estimate on Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
• The Cyclically Adjusted and Standardized Budget Measures
• The Treatment of Federal Receipts and Expenditures in the National Income and Product Accounts

Council on Foreign Relations
• The Next Chapter: The United States and Pakistan
• Setting a Constructive Russia Agenda
• Shining Path, Tupac Amaru (Peru, leftists)
• A Surge of Will in Afghanistan
• The U.S. Financial Regulatory System
• The U.S.-India Nuclear Deal

Department of Defense
• Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq [September 2008 report]

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)
• D-2008-119 Construction Contracting Procedures Implemented by the Joint Contracting Command-Iraq/Afghanistan, September 29, 2008
• D-2008-133 Joint Follow On Evaluation of the Equipment Status of Operation Iraqi Freedom Forces, September 20, 2008
• D-2008-135 Requiring Radio Frequency Identification in Contracts for Supplies, September 29, 2008

Department of Homeland Security Inspector General
• Fiscal Year 2009 Annual Performance Plan

Department of Justice Attorney General
• The Attorney General's Guidelines for Domestic FBI Operations

Director of National Intelligence
• Intelligence Community Directive 503 - Intelligence Community Information Technology Systems Security Risk Management, Certification and Accreditation

Energy Security Leadership Council
• A National Strategy for Energy Security: Recommendations to the Nation on Reducing U.S. Oil Dependence

Foreign Policy in Focus
• The Cost of Boots on the Ground in Iraq

Fort Leavenworth. Combined Arms Center
Military Review, v. 88, no. 8, September-October 2008
• Multi-National Force-Iraq Commander’s Counterinsurgency Guidance by General David H. Petraeus U.S. Army
• The Baby and the Bathwater: Changing Times or Changing Principles? By Colonel John Mark Mattox U.S. Army
• Discipline, Punishment, and Counterinsurgency by Scott Andrew Ewing
• Adaptation: It’s Time for an Army Advisor Command by Dr. John A. Nagl LTC U.S. Army Retired
• Integrating the Advisory Effort in the Army: A Full Spectrum Solution by Major Michael D. Jason U.S. Army
• An Innovative Approach to Blast Injury Recovery by Colonel Karl D. Reed U.S. Army
• In Uncle Sam’s Backyard: China’s Military Influence in Latin America by Loro Horta
• Waging Counterinsurgency in Algeria: A French Point of View by Lieutenant Colonel Philippe Francois French Marine Infantry
• Operation BOA: A Counterfactual History of the Battle for Shah-I-Kot by Colonel Robert D. Hyde USAF, Colonel Mark D. Kelly USAF and Colonel William F. Andrews USAF
• Leadership Success Strategies of U.S. Army Women General Officers by Lieutenant Colonel Yvonne Doll U.S. Army Retired
• Amnesty, Reintegration, and Reconciliation in Rwanda by Major Jeffrey H. Powell U.S. Army
• Winning Battles but Losing Wars: Three Ways Successes in Combat Promote Failures in Peace by Christopher E. Housenick Ph.D.
• A National Security Strategy for the Next Administration by Amitai Etzioni
• Finding the Flow: Shadow Economies, Ethnic Networks, and Counterinsurgency by Captain Robert M. Chamberlain U.S. Army

Freedom House
• Progress Review: Kazakhstan's OSCE Commitments on Democracy and Rule of Law in Light Of Kazakhstan's Upcoming OSCE Chairmanship

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
• Climate Change: Federal Actions Will Greatly Affect the Viability of Carbon Capture and Storage As a Key Mitigation Option. GAO-08-1080.
• Contingency Contracting: DOD, State, and USAID Contracts and Contractor Personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan. GAO-09-19.
• Defense Acquisitions: Sound Business Case Needed to Implement Missile Defense Agency's Targets Program. GAO-08-1113.
• DOD Financial Management: Improvements Are Needed in Antideficiency Act Controls and Investigations. GAO-08-1063.
• Energy Markets: Analysis of More Past Mergers Could Enhance Federal Trade Commission's Efforts to Maintain Competition in the Petroleum Industry. GAO-08-1082.
• Export Promotion: The Export-Import Bank's Financing of Dual-Use Exports. GAO-08-1182R.
• Federal Energy Management: Addressing Challenges through Better Plans and Clarifying the Greenhouse Gas Emission Measure Will Help Meet Long-term Goals for Buildings. GAO-08-977.
• Financial Management: Persistent Financial Management Systems Issues Remain for Many CFO Act Agencies. GAO-08-1018.
• Homeland Security: DHS Risk-Based Grant Methodology Is Reasonable, But Current Version's Measure of Vulnerability is Limited. GAO-08-852, June 27. [File revised to reflect changes in note on page 10 and graphic on page 18.]
• Influenza Pandemic: HHS Needs to Continue Its Actions and Finalize Guidance for Pharmaceutical Interventions. GAO-08-671.
• Information Security: Actions Needed to Better Protect Los Alamos National Laboratory's Unclassified Computer Network. GAO-08-1001.
• NASA: Agency Faces Challenges Defining Scope and Costs of Space Shuttle Transition and Retirement. GAO-08-109.
• Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan and Iraq. GAO-09-86R.
• Space Acquisitions: DOD's Goals for Resolving Space Based Infrared System Software Problems Are Ambitious. GAO-08-1073.
• Space Acquisitions: Uncertainties in the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle Program Pose Management and Oversight Challenges. GAO-08-1039.
• U.S. Asylum System: Agencies Have Taken Actions to Help Ensure Quality in the Asylum Adjudication Process, but Challenges Remain. GAO-08-935.
• U.S. Asylum System: Significant Variation Existed in Asylum Outcomes across Immigration Courts and Judges. GAO-08-940.

Heritage Foundation
• Chinese Investment (Mostly) Welcome
• Congress Should Support the U.S. Africa Command
• The Defense Trade Cooperation Treaties with the United Kingdom and Australia Advance the American Interest
• Mbeki's Ouster Opens the Door for Enhanced U.S.–South Africa Cooperation
• Taiwan’s Defense Hobbled by U.S. Arms "Freeze"

Hudson Institute
• How to Strengthen Democracy in Latin America

Human Rights Watch
• "Why Am I Still Here?": The 2007 Horn of Africa Renditions and the Fate of Those Still Missing

Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis
• Iran with Nuclear Weapons: Anticipating the Consequences for U.S. Policy

Joint Chiefs of Staff
• Joint Publication 3-11: Operations in Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) Environments

International Crisis Group
• CrisisWatch N°62, 1 October 2008

International Relations and Security Network
• Al-Qaida's Bosnian War Move
• International CIIP Handbook 2008/2009 (An Inventory of 25 National and 7 International Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Policies)
• Iraq's Poll Miasma
• Kadyrov's Last Rival Dead

Lexington Institute
• Missile Defense: The World Has Changed
• Why The Navy Wants To Rethink Its Next Destroyer

Long War Journal
• Iraqi Security Forces Order of Battle: October 2008 update
• Pakistan's Taliban Warlord: A Profile of Baitullah Mehsud
• US Attacks Inside Pakistan and Incidents Along the Border in 2008

National Academies Press
• Department of Homeland Security Bioterrorism Risk Assessment: A Call For Change
• Global Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events: Understanding the Contributions to Infectious Disease Emergence: Workshop Summary


National Defense University (NDU)
Joint Force Quarterly (JFQ) no. 51, 4th Quarter 2008
• Confronting Biological Threats to the Homeland by Michael Chertoff
• DOD and the Nuclear Mission by Clark A. Murdock
• The New Threat of Unconventional Warfare by Albert J. Mauroni
• Nuclear First Use: Prudence or Peril? by Stephen J. Cimbala
• Combating WMD Collaboratively by Paul I. Bernstein
• Missile Defense and NATO Security by Peppino A. DeBiaso
• Preparedness for a CBRNE Event by Zygmunt F. Dembek
• Decontamination Operations in a Mass Casualty Scenario by Michael L. Snyder and Thomas J. Sobieski
• Confronting Biological Threats to the Homeland by Michael Chertoff
• DOD and the Nuclear Mission by Clark A. Murdock
• The New Threat of Unconventional Warfare by Albert J. Mauroni
• Nuclear First Use: Prudence or Peril? by Stephen J. Cimbala
• Combating WMD Collaboratively by Paul I. Bernstein
• Missile Defense and NATO Security by Peppino A. DeBiaso
• Preparedness for a CBRNE Event by Zygmunt F. Dembek
• Decontamination Operations in a Mass Casualty Scenario by Michael L. Snyder and Thomas J. Sobieski
• U.S. Africa Command and the Principle of Active Security by William E. Ward and Thomas P. Galvin
• The Road to a New Unified Command by Robert T. Moeller and Mary C. Yates
• USAFRICOM: The Militarization of U.S. Foreign Policy? by Dennis R.J. Penn
• Legal Impediments to USAFRICOM Operationalization by Jeffrey S. Palmer
• USJFCOM Commander’s Guidance for Effects-based Operations by James N. Mattis IV
• Whatever Happened to the “War on Drugs”? by James G. Stavridis
• Developing a Unit Language Capability for War by Harry D. Tunnell IV
• The Global Positioning System: A Case Study in the Challenges of Transformation by Matthew E. Skeen
• Carpe DIEM: Seizing Strategic Opportunity in the Arctic by Anthony L. Russell
• The Russian Chechen Wars: Three Lessons for U.S. Defense Planners by Daniel T. Canfield
• Al Qaeda: Refining a Failing Strategy by Martin J. Hart
• Global Networks: The Need for a Strategic Targeting Organization by Robert M. Brassaw
• Command and Control of Military Forces in the Homeland by Jeffrey W. Burkett
• Terrorist Violence in the Next Millennium: New Legal Solutions for an Old Nemesis by James P. Terry
• Information-driven Interagency Operations in Afghanistan by Shannon O’Harren, Trude V.V. King, Tushar Suthar, and Kenneth D. Cockrell
• Revisiting the Seventies: The Third World Comes of Age by Thomas C. Reed and Danny B. Stillman


Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE)
• The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area: Background Paper 2008
• Final Report on Sustainable Policies for Roma and Sinti Integration
• Implementation of the Action Plan on Improving the Situation of Roma and Sinti Within the OSCE Area

Pew Hispanic Center
• Sharp Decline in Income for Non-Citizen Immigrant Households, 2006-2007
• Trends in Unauthorized Immigration: Undocumented Inflow Now Trails Legal Inflow

Project on National Security Reform (PNSR)
• Project on National Security Reform: Case Studies Volume I

Proteus [Army War College]
• A Proof of Concept for Collecting and Analyzing Open Source Information in Universities for the Purpose of Identifying Over-The-Horizon Threats to Selected Items on the Military Critical Technologies List, by Dr. William G. Perry, Volume 2, Issue 3, Oct. 2008.
• Tech 2035: Future Technology, Future Power in Asia, and Future Intelligence Challenges, by Dr. Marvin J. Cetron and Owen Davies, Volume 2, Issue 2, Sep. 2008.

RAND
• Al Qaeda and Its Affiliates: A Global Tribe Waging Segmental Warfare
• The Effect of Personnel Stability on Organizational Performance: Do Battalions with Stable Command Groups Achieve Higher Training Proficiency at the National Training Center?
• Integrating Instruments of Power and Influence: Lessons Learned and Best Practices
• Options for Improving the Military Child Care System

Reform Institute
• Building a Resilient Nation: Enhancing Security, Ensuring a Strong Economy

Stanley Foundation
• Improving US National Security: Options for Strengthening US Foreign Operations
• International Implications for and Levers on US Nuclear Weapons Policy
• New Power Dynamics in Southeast Asia

Strategic Studies Institute
• Dueling Natures
• Stability Operations and State Building: Continuities and Contingencies

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• The Importance of Iraq's Provincial Elections
• Rethinking the Two-State Solution
• Stability in Lebanon Threatened, Again

Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control
• Tracking the World's Efforts to Punish Iranian Proliferators