Friday Miscellany 07-17-2009

Aerospace Industries Association (AIA)
· The Unseen Cost: Industrial Base Consequences of Defense Strategy Choices

Afghanistan Analysts Network
· The Other Side: Dimensions of the Afghan Insurgency: Causes, Actors an Approaches to ‘Talks’

Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission
· AIHRC-UNAMA Joint Monitoring of Political Rights Presidential and Provincial Council Elections First Report 25 April – 12 June 2009


Air Force Association (AFA)
· Note from AFA President -- F-22

American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
· Polls on Patriotism and Military Service

· Private Sector and Public Sector Malaria Treatment in Africa

Amnesty International
· Everything Left Behind: Internal Displacement in Colombia

Arms Control Association
· Iran’s Outstanding Nuclear Issues at a Glance

Association of the U.S. Army (AUSA)
· Reforming the National Security Council for the 21st Century: Integrating Homeland Security and Transnational Threats
· Teams of Leaders in U.S. European Command: A Soft-power Multiplier
· Transforming U.S. Army Pacific

Atlantic Council of the U.S.
· Public Sector Pensions Report: Transparency Standards Lacking

Australia Defence Department
· Defence Capability Plan 2009

Brookings Institution
· Afghanistan Index
· Building Asia Pacific Regional Architecture: The Challenge of Hybrid Regionalism
· Crisis in Pakistan: Educate Women and Girls for Long-Term Solutions
· Going Home? Prospects and Pitfalls for Large-Scale Return of Iraqis
· Target the Drug Lords in Afghanistan, Not the Farmers
· Toward a New Frontier Improving the U.S.-Canadian Border

Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)
· Resource Industries and Security Issues in Northern Alberta

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
· China's Prospects In The Current Global Climate
· The Evolving Situation in Iran

CATO
· Thinking Clearly about Economic Inequality

Center for American Progress
· Window of Opportunity for a Two-State Solution: Policy Recommendations to the Obama Administration on the Israeli-Palestinian Front

Center for Defense Information (CDI)
· The F-22 Controversy, Part I: Arguments for Stopping Production

Center for National Policy
· North Korea's Weapons Tests: What's Next?

Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)
· China's Participation in Anti-Piracy Operations off the Horn of Africa: Drivers and Implications
· ‎“A Wing and a Prayer”: Summary and Analysis of the NAHLN HPAI Exercise Program

Center for Nonproliferation Studies
· Battle Lines Being Drawn in the CTBT Debate: An Analysis of the Strategic Posture Commission's Arguments against U.S. Ratification
· Obama's Moscow Visit Highlights Both Progress and Obstacles in U.S.-Russian Nuclear Relations

Center for Security Policy
· Latin American Yalta
· Welcome to Faisal County
· Zeroing in on Peru

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
· Rolls-Royce North America Military Strategy Forum
· Russia-US Joint Working Group on Investment and Institutional Integrity
· The U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue

Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction
· Are We Prepared?: Four WMD Crises That Could Transform U.S. Security

Centre for European Reform
· The EU Finally Opens Up the European Defence Market

Centre for Social Cohesion
· The BNP and the Online Fascist Network

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
· Creating Global Intelligence: The Creation of the US Intelligence Community and Lessons for the 21st Century

Congress. House. Armed Services Committee
· Hearings
*Prosecuting Law of War Violations: Reforming the Military Commissions Act of 2006 [July 16, 2009]
*Oversight Hearing for the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) [July 16, 2009]
*Managing Service Contracts: What Works and What Doesn’t? [July 16, 2009]
*Addressing a New Generation of Threats from Weapons of Mass Destruction: Department of Energy Nonproliferation Programs and the Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction Program [July 16, 2009]
*Beyond Service Core Competency: Are Our Junior Officers Prepared for Today’s Security Environment? [July 16, 2009]

Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee
· Chinese Interrogation vs. Congressional Oversight: The Uighurs at Guantanamo

Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee
· Combating Border Violence: The Role of Interagency Coordination in Investigations
· General Aviation Security: Assessing Risks and the Road Ahead

Congress. Senate. Commerce, Science and Technology Committee
· Chairman Rockefeller Alarmed by Magnitude of Cyber Attacks

Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations
· $150 Oil: Instability, Terrorism and Economic Disruption
· Maritime Disputes and Sovereignty Issues in East Asia

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs
· Identification Security: Reevaluating the Real ID Act

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
· The Long-Term Budget Outlook
· Options for Combining the Navy's and the Coast Guard's Small Combatant Programs
· Preliminary Analysis of the Insurance Coverage Specifications Provided by the House Tri-Committee Group
· S. 1390, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010

Country Indicators for Foreign Policy
· Afghanistan 2009 [Fragile States Country Report]

Defense Science Board (DSB)
· Fulfillment of Urgent Operational Needs

Department of Defense (DoD) Chemical and Biological Defense Program (CBDP)
· Department of Defense (DoD) Chemical and Biological Defense Program (CBDP) Research, Development and Acquisition (RDA) Plan (based on the FY10 President's Budget (PB), dated May 2009)

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)
· D-2009-090 Information Operations Career Force Management, July 2, 2009
· D-2009-093 Ship Utilization in Support of the Global War on Terror, July 15, 2009
· D-2009-092 Validity of DOD Civilian Employee Accounts, July 15, 2009

Department of Homeland Security. Office of Immigration Statistics
· Immigration Enforcement Actions: 2008

Department of Homeland Security Privacy Impact Assessment
· Comparative Case Studies of Radical Rhetoric
· Department of Homeland Security Web Portals

Department of State Inspector General
· Nonimmigrant Visa Adjudication: Standards for Refusing Applicants (ISP-CA-05-58)

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
· The PRI Makes a Comeback in Mexico

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· Assessing the Reliability of Computer-Processed Data (Supersedes GAO-03-273G), GAO-09-680G
· Coast Guard: As Deepwater Systems Integrator, Coast Guard Is Reassessing Costs and Capabilities but Lags in Applying Its Disciplined Acquisition Approach, GAO-09-682
· Coast Guard: Better Logistics Planning Needed to Aid Operational Decisions Related to the Deployment of the National Security Cutter and Its Support Assets, GAO-09-497
· Coast Guard Retiree Health Care: Coast Guard Contributions to and Payments from the DOD Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Care Fund (MERHCF), GAO-09-857R
· Electronic Health Records: Program Office Improvements Needed to Strengthen Management of VA and DOD Efforts to Achieve Full Interoperability, GAO-09-895T [testimony]
· Grants Management: Grants.gov Has Systematic Weaknesses That Require Attention, GAO-09-589
· Information Security: Agencies Continue to Report Progress, but Need to Mitigate Persistent Weaknesses, GAO-09-546
· Personnel Security Clearances: An Outcome-Focused Strategy Is Needed to Guide Implementation of the Reformed Clearance Process, GAO-09-488
· President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief: Partner Selection and Oversight Follow Accepted Practices but Would Benefit from Enhanced Planning and Accountability, GAO-09-666
· Reserve Forces: Army Needs to Reevaluate its Approach to Training and Mobilizing Reserve Component Forces, GAO-09-720
· State Department: Key Transformation Practices Could Have Helped in Restructuring Arms Control and Nonproliferation Bureaus, GAO-09-738
· VA Health Care: Preliminary Findings on VA's Provision of Health Care Services to Women Veterans, GAO-09-899T [testimony]
· VA Health Care: Preliminary Findings on VA's Provision of Health Care Services to Women Veterans, GAO-09-884T [testimony]

Heritage Foundation
· Congress Should Support the Development of an Allied Variant of the F-22A
· The President's Ghana Trip: Obama Should Advance Freedom in Africa
· The State Secret Protection Act Is Not Like the Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA)
· The U.S.-U.K. Defense Trade Cooperation Treaty Merits Early Consideration
· U.S. Air Force Fifth-Generation Fighter: The F-22A Raptor Requirements Retreat

Hudson Institute
· One View of the United States and Iraq

Human Rights Watch
· "Hostages to Peace": Threats to Human Rights and Democracy in Somaliland
· Soldiers Who Rape, Commanders Who Condone: Sexual Violence and Military Reform in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Institute for National Security Studies (INSS)
· Diverging Roads: 21st-Century U.S.-Thai Defense Relations
· Strategic Forum 242 - Managing Strategic Competition with China

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)
· A Smuggler's Procurement of Nuclear Dual-Use Pressure Transducers for Iran
· Smugglers Assist North Korea-Directed Illicit Trade to Myanmar

Institute for Security Studies (ISS)
· Policy Brief No 2: Intelligence and Accountability in Africa
· Brief No 1: Security Sector Reform in Zimbabwe, What, Why and How?
· SA Crime Quarterly No 28, June 2009
· Co-Chair's Summary: ISS/CGCC Workshop, Cape Town: The Role of Civil Society in the Implementation of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy in Africa
· Co-Chair's Recommendations: ISS/CGCC Workshop, Cape Town: The Role of Civil Society in the Implementation of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy in Africa

Institute of Medicine
· Combating Tobacco in Military and Veteran Populations
· Report Brief

International Crisis Group
· Sudan: Justice, Peace and the ICC

International Relations and Security Network
· Afghanistan: When the War Is Unwinnable
· Bosnia, EU: Suffering Incompetence
· East Timor: Justice in the Dock
· India’s Nuclear Dilemma Exposed
· Iran Watch: Decisive Friday Prayer
· UK: Disconnected Democracy

Jamestown Foundation
· Terrorism Monitor, July 12, 2009, v. 7, no. 21
*Jihadis Identify U.S. Plots Against China in Xinjiang and Africa
*The Afghan Taliban and Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb Threaten France Over Hostility to Burkas
*The Role of the Revolutionary Guards and Basij Militia in Iran's "Electoral Coup"
*The Baghdadi Tapes: Supposedly Imprisoned Iraqi Islamist Claims He Still Leads Fight Against U.S. Occupation

Lexington Institute
· Raulonomics: Tough Diagnosis and Partial Prescriptions in Raul Castro's Economic Policies · Some Nuclear Cuts are Feasible, but Big Ones are Dangerous

Markle Foundation
· Reforming the Culture of National Security: Vision, Clarity, and Accountability

Minority Rights Group International
· State of the World's Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 2009
· Peoples Under Threat 2009

National Academies Press
· America's Future in Space: Aligning the Civil Space Program with National Needs [free download but registration is required]

National Employment Law Project
· A Scorecard on the Post-9/11 Port Worker Background Checks

National Priorities Project
· Cost of War Tops $915 Billion
· Cost of War Counter

National Security Archive
· More Dubious Secrets

New America Foundation
· Sustainable Broadband Adoption Application Guide

Peterson Institute for International Economics
· The Global Financial Crisis and Development Strategy for Emerging-Market Economies
· Pacific Asia and the Asia Pacific: The Choices for APEC

Pew Internet
· The Internet and the Recession

Small Wars Journal
· Mistakes Were Made: How Not to Conduct Post-Conflict Management and Counterinsurgency
· The US Air Force and Irregular Warfare: Success as a Hurdle

Stimson Center
· The Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review

Strategic Studies Institute
· New Partnerships for a New Era: Enhancing the South African Army's Stabilization Role in Africa

UK Cabinet Office
· The Road to 2010: Addressing the Nuclear Question in the Twenty First Century

UK Parliament
· Arctic Changes
· CO2 Capture, Transport and Storage

US Institute of Peace (USIP)
· Counting the Costs of Somali Piracy
· Negotiating with the Taliban: Reconciliation in Afghanistan and Pakistan?
· A Renewable Energy Peace Park in the Golan as a Framework to an Israeli-Syrian Agreement
· United States Institute of Peace Teaches International Security Personnel to Resolve Conflicts without Resorting to the Use of Force

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
· New 'Arab Street' Polls: United States Gaining Ground, Iran Losing
· Targeting Human Rights Abuse in Iran: A Postelection Strategy
· Waning Vigilance: Al-Qaeda's Resurgence in Yemen
· Who Will Be the Next King of Saudi Arabia... And Does It Matter?

World Public Opinion.org
· Muslim and African Nations on Bashir Indictment and Darfur