Afghanistan Watch
· International Criminal Court (ICC) in Afghanistan
Air University
· Air & Space Power Journal, Fall 2009, v. 23, no. 3
o Cyberspace Leadership: Towards New Culture, Conduct, and Capabilities
o Air-Mindedness: Confessions of an Airpower Advocate
o A Perfect Storm over Nuclear Weapons
o Modern Air Power and the 1916 Arab Revolt: What Can the Modern Airman Do to Counter Lawrence of Arabia?
o Recent US and Chinese Antisatellite Activities
o Team Spirit: A Case Study on the Value of Military Exercises as a Show of Force in the Aftermath of Combat Operations
o Deterrence and Space-Based Missile Defense
o Damage Control: Leveraging Crisis Communications for Operational Effect
o Recruiting for 2030: Is the US Air Force Getting the Recruits It Needs for the Future?
o Modern Air Power and the 1916 Arab Revolt: What Can the Modern Airman Do to Counter Lawrence of Arabia?
o KC-X: The Game Changer for Mobility
o Efficiently Exploiting the Power of C4ISR by Optimally Organizing and Training the Producers of Combat Support Effects
o Airpower Security Cooperation as an Instrument of National Power: Lessons for Iraq from the Cases of Pakistan and Egypt
Army Combined Arms Center
· Military Review, November-December 2009, v. 89, no. 6
o Refighting the Last War: Afghanistan and the Vietnam Template by Thomas H. Johnson, M. Chris Mason
o Conscription, the Republic, and America’s Future by Adrian R. Lewis, Ph.D.
o Transformation and the Irregular Gap by Major Kenneth J. Burgess, U.S. Army
o Breaking Tactical Fixation: The Division’s Role by Brigadier General Alan Batschelet, U.S. Army, Lieutenant Colonel Mike Runey, U.S. Army, Lieutenant Colonel Gregory Meyer Jr., U.S. Army
o MiTT Advisor: A Year with the Best Division in the Iraqi Army by Colonel Timothy Deady, U.S. Army Reserve, Retired
o Russia’s Military Performance in Georgia by Tor Bukkvoll, Ph.D., Norway
o Revolutionary Management: The Role of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias in the Cuban Economy by Terry L. Maris, Ph.D.
o Competency vs. Character? It Must Be Both! by Lieutenant Colonel Joe Doty, U.S. Army, Ph.D., Major Walt Sowden, U.S. Army
o Developing Creative and Critical Thinkers by Colonel Charles D. Allen, U.S. Army, Retired, Colonel Stephen J. Gerras, Ph.D., U.S. Army, Retired
o Empathy: A True Leader Skill by Lieutenant Colonel Harry C. Garner, U.S. Army, Retired
o Emotional Intelligence and the Army Leadership Requirements Model by Lieutenant Colonel Gerald F. Sewell, U.S. Army, Retired
o The Mentorship Dilemma Continues by Major Edward Cox, U.S. Army
o Getting Off the Treadmill of Time by Colonel Chris Robertson, U.S. Army, Lieutenant Colonel Sophie Gainey, U.S. Army
o "Below-the-Zone" and Command Selection by Major Vylius M. Leskys, U.S. Army
o Army Chaplains: Leading from the Middle by Chaplain (Colonel) F. Eric Wester, U.S. Army
Army War College
· Parameters, Autumn 2009, v. 39, no. 3
o A Strategy of Tactics: Population-centric COIN and the Army by Gian P. Gentile
o Beyond Population Engagement: Understanding Counterinsurgency by Heather S. Gregg
o Conventional Deterrence in the Second Nuclear Age by Michael S. Gerson
o Playing for the Breaks: Insurgent Mistakes by Lincoln B. Krause
o Filling Irregular Warfare’s Interagency Gaps by Lew Irwin
o The Defense Identity Crisis: It’s a Hybrid World by Nathan Freier
o To Stay a Soldier by Chuck Callahan
Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)
· We'll Have Six of Them and Four of Those: Off-the-Shelf Procurement and Its Strategic Implications
British Council Pakistan
· Pakistan: The Next Generation
Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)
· The Strategic Quagmire: Why Nation Building in Afghanistan is Failing
CARE Canada
· Knowledge on Fire: Attacks on Education in Afghanistan – Risks and Measures for Successful Mitigation
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
· Egyptian Nuclear Leadership—Time to Realign?
· Iraqi Vice President Rejects Election Law, Threatening January Vote
· Sharing the Pain: The Global Struggle Over Savings
Center for a New American Security
· On the Knife’s Edge: Yemen’s Instability and the Threat to American Interests
Center for American Progress
· Clean Energy for the Wild Blue Yonder: Expanding Renewable Energy and Efficiency in the Air Force
· The U.S.- India Strategic Partnership is Vital
Center for Security Studies (CSS)
· Focal Report 3: Critical Infrastructure Protection Cybersecurity – Recent Strategies and Policies: An Analysis
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
· The Afghan Strategy Checklist: How to Evaluate the Effectiveness and Credibility of a Defining Test of Obama's Leadership
· Engaging Regional Players in Afghanistan: Threats and Opportunities
· Making Gender a Global Health Priority
Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
· Security Sector Reform Monitor, Afghanistan, November 2009, no. 2
Centre for Social Cohesion’s (CSC)
· Hizb ut-Tahrir: Ideology and Strategy
Chatham House
· The EU and China: Time for a Change?
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
· The Costs of Reducing Greenhouse-Gas Emissions Economic and Budget Issue Brief
Council on Foreign Relations
· The United States in the New Asia
Deloitte
· Energy Security: America's Best Defense
Department of State
· Special Briefing on Secretary Clinton's Recent Trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan
Energy Information Administration (EIA)
· Country Analysis Brief: Caribbean
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
· Hate Crime Statistics, 2008
· Law Enforcement Bulletin, November 2009
o Police Training for the Whole Person
o Use of Force and Community Awareness
o Retiring from the “Thin Blue Line” (Part Two)
o Pole Cameras and Surreptitious Surveillance
o Traits of Leadership
Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
· Hu-Obama Summit and U.S.-China Relations
· Obama’s Foreign Policy at Ten Months: the Limits of Consensus
· What Afghans Want
· Winning the Wars We’re In
Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces
· Fighting the Pre-eminent Threats with Intelligence-led Operations
· Security Sector Reform in Challenging Environments [selected chapters available for download]
· Strategies Against Human Trafficking: The Role of the Security Sector
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· Homeland Security: Key US-VISIT Components at Varying Stages of Completion, but Integrated and Reliable Schedule Needed, GAO-10-13
· Nuclear Weapons: National Nuclear Security Administration Needs to Better Manage Risks Associated with Modernization of Its Kansas City Plant, GAO-10-115
· Recovery Act: Recipient Reported Jobs Data Provide Some Insight into Use of Recovery Act Funding, but Data Quality and Reporting Issues Need Attention, GAO-10-223
Heritage Foundation
· Key Asian Indicators: A 2009 Book of Charts
· U.S.-India: An Enduring Partnership in Uncertain Times
Human Rights Watch
· Cruel Britannia: British Complicity in the Torture and Ill-treatment of Terror Suspects in Pakistan
· Group Denial: Repression of Kurdish Political and Cultural Rights in Syria
Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS)
· Joint Force Quarterly (JFQ), issue 56, 1st Quarter 2010
o Ambassadors to the World: A New Paradigm for Public Diplomacy and Strategic Communication by Robert D. Deutsch
o Public Engagement 101: What Strategic Communication Is, Isn’t, and Should Be by Kristin M. Lord
o “Strategic Communication” Is Vague: Say What You Mean by Christopher Paul
o Forum Executive Summary by David H. Gurney
o Afghanistan: Context and What’s Next by Volney F. Warner
o Winning Afghanistan at the Community Level: A Rejoinder to Volney F. Warner and “C” by Christopher D. Kolenda
o A Better War in Afghanistan by John A. Nagl
o Unified Effort: Key to Special Operations and Irregular Warfare in Afghanistan by Christopher J. Lamb and Martin Cinnamond
o Civil-Military Integration in Afghanistan: Creating Unity of Command by Joshua W. Welle
o Interview with Admiral Eric T. Olson, USN, Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command by David H. Gurney and Jeffrey D. Smotherman
o U.S. Special Operations: Context and Capabilities in Irregular Warfare by Eric T. Olson
o Countering Irregular Threats: The Army Special Operations Contribution by John F. Mulholland, Jr.
o Adapting Across the Spectrum of Conflict: The Role of Naval Special Warfare by Edward G. Winters
o Mastering the Art of the Possible: The Air Force Special Operations Command by Donald C. Wurster
o Forging Marine Special Operators by Mastin M. Robeson
o Legitimizing Army Psychological Operations by Alfred H. Paddock, Jr.
o The Business of War: The Impact of “PLA, Inc.” on Chinese Officers by Dean Cheng
o Israel and the Iranian Nuclear Infrastructure by Brent J. Talbot
o An Intelligent Theater by James G. Stavridis
o The Leavenworth Heresy and the Perversion of Operational Art by Justin Kelly and Michael J. Brennan
o Can the Army Become a Learning Organization? A Question Reexamined by Anthony J. DiBella
o Pay for Play: Countering Threat Financing by Michael T. Flynn and Simone A. Ledeen
o A Joint Staff to Believe In by G. John David and Paul S. Reinhart
o Global Insurgency: Myth Or Reality? Point/Counterpoint Introduction
o The Struggle Against Global Insurgency by Daniel G. Cox
o The Dangers of Mistaking Coherence for Capability by Michael W. Mosser
o Vice Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Leadership of the Joint Requirements Oversight Council by Richard M. Meinhart
o Unity of Command in the Pacific During World War II by Phillip S. Meilinger
o Wargaming the Flu by Margaret M. McCown
· U.S.-Cambodia Defense Relations: Defining New Possibilities
Institute for Security Studies
· ISS Paper 205: Political Violence in Kenya, A Study of Causes, Responses, and a Framework for Discussing Preventive Action
· ISS Paper 204: Confronting Complex Emergencies in Africa, Imperatives of a Search for a New Doctrine of Humanitarian ‘Security’ Interventions
· ISS Paper 203: The International Politics of Rape, Sex and the Family in Sierra Leone
· Another Crossroad for Burundi: From the FNL to Peaceful Elections in 2010
· Libya: A Critical Review of Tripoli’s Sub-Saharan African Policies, Amira Ibrahim
Institute for the Study of War
· President Hamid Karzai’s Second Inaugural Address
· The Taliban's Media Blitz
International Crisis Group
· Afghanistan: Elections and the Crisis of Governance
International Atomic Energy Administration (IAEA)
· Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
· Islamic Republic of Afghanistan: Afghanistan National Development Strategy: First Annual Report (2008/09)
International Peace Institute
· From Uganda to the Congo and Beyond: Pursuing the Lord's Resistance Army
International Relations and Security Network
· Costs of War: Fort Hood’s 9/11 Déjà Vu
· The Fog of Cyberwar
· The Future Is Ship Shape
· India’s Private Security Metamorphosis
· International Community Stuck in Bosnia
· Reforming the Afghan National Army
· Somalia Jumps on Private Security Bandwagon
Jamestown Foundation
· Terrorism Monitor, v, 7, no. 36, November 26, 2009
o Ibrahim al-Rubaish: New Religious Ideologue of al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia Calls for Revival of Assassination Tactic
o Al-Qaeda in Iraq Operations Suggest Rising Confidence Ahead of U.S. Military Withdrawal
o French Operation in Afghanistan Aims to Open New Coalition Supply Route
o Taliban Expand Insurgency to Northern Afghanistan
The Nation
· Blackwater's Secret War in Pakistan
National Academies Press
· Crisis Standards of Care: Summary of a Workshop Series [free download but registration required]
· Disposal of Legacy Nerve Agent GA and Lewisite Stocks at Deseret Chemical Depot Letter Report [free download but registration required]
· Ensuring the Integrity, Accessibility, and Stewardship of Research Data in the Digital Age
· Experimentation and Rapid Prototyping in Support of Counterterrorism [free download but registration required]
· Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2008 [free download but registration required]
National Academy of Science
· Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, November 24, 2009, v. 106, no. 47
o Warming increases the risk of civil war in Africa
National Bureau of Asian Research
· Managing Unmet Expectations in the U.S.-Japan Alliance
· Secure Land Rights as a Foundation for Broad-Based Rural Development in China: Results and Recommendations from a Seventeen-Province Survey
NATO Defense College
· Counterinsurgency: The Challenge for NATO Strategy and Operations
OECD
· Armed Violence Reduction: Enabling Development
Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)
· Iran's Naval Forces: From Guerilla (sic) Warfare to a Modern Naval Strategy http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/oni/iran-navy.pdf
OpenDoors Online
· Open Doors Report 2009: Report on International Educational Exchange
OpenSecurity
· The Afghan Anvil: Breaking the Indo-Pakistani Deadlock?
PAK Institute for Peace Studies
· Assessing the Reporting, Approach and Impact of Militants’ Print Media in Pakistan
· Profiling the Violence in Karachi
Peterson Institute for International Economics
· Capital Flows to Developing Countries: The Allocation Puzzle
Pew Research Center
· Polling Wars: Hawks vs. Doves
Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
· Where the Public Stands on Immigration Reform
Rand
· Air Force Officer Specialty Structure: Reviewing the Fundamentals
· Study of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Questions Assumptions Behind “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
· Understanding Commanders' Information Needs for Influence Operations
Small Wars Journal
· Afghanistan: Education and Literacy
· AFRICOM: Reconstruction and Stability Through the Provincial Reconstruction Team-Enhanced, Enabled by Unity of Command
· Reorganizing for Irregular Warfare
· The Myth of Hearts and Minds
Stanley Foundation
· Talking about Nuclear Weapons with the Persuadable Middle
Stimson Center
· The Indian Ocean: Resource and Governance Challenges
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
· The EU Non-Proliferation Clause: A Preliminary Assessment
Strategic Studies Institute
· Democratic Governance and the Rule of Law: Lessons from Colombia
· Leadership and National Security Reform Conference
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
· 2009 Patterns and Trends of Amphetamine-Type Stimulants and Other Drugs in East and South-East Asia (and Neighbouring Regions)
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
· State of the World’s Population 2009
World Public Opinion.org
· Majorities Reject Banning Defamation of Religion: 20 Nation Poll
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Friday's Miscellany 11-20-2009
American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)
• Battle for the Bundestag: The German Election of 2009
• The Politics of History in Germany and Japan
Australian Strategic Policy Institute
• How to Buy a Submarine: Defining and Building Australia’s Future Fleet
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
• Beyond Zero Enrichment: Suggestions for an Iranian Nuclear Deal
Brookings
• Vision for Victory in Afghanistan - Part I
• Vision for Victory in Afghanistan - Part II
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Fixing a Failed Strategy in Afghanistan
• Iran, the United States, and the Gulf: The Elusive Regional Policy
• Manmohan Singh Visits Washington: Sustaining US-Indian Cooperation Amid Differences
• Middle East Democracy Promotion Is Not a One-Way Street
• Restoring the NPT: Essential Steps for 2010
CATO Institute
• Bending the Productivity Curve: Why America Leads the World in Medical Innovation
Center for a New American Security
• On the Knife's Edge: Yemen's Instability and the Threat to American Interests
Center for American Progress
• How to Make the Afghanistan War a “Just War”
• Integrating Security: Preparing for the National Security Threats of the 21st Century
Center for Contemporary Conflict, Program for Culture & Conflict Studies
• Culture & Conflict Review, Fall 2009, v. 3, no. 3
o Developing an IO Environmental Assessment in Khost Province, Afghanistan
o Engaging Afghans: KLE Keys to Success
o The Federally Administered Tribal Areas: A Case Study in Health Capital and Democracy
o Employing Data Fusion in Cultural Analysis and Counterinsurgency in Tribal Social Systems
o The Status of US/ISAF Strategic Communications Efforts in Afghanistan
o Operation Nusrat (Victory): Understanding the Taliban Threat to Kunduz Province
o Clan, the State, and War: Balancing the Subcomponents of World Order
o Afghan Theatre Conference Aims to Impact Strategies in the Field
Center for Immigration Studies (CIS)
• Immigration and Crime: Assessing a Conflicted Issue
Center for Infrastructure Protection (CIP)
• CIP Report (September 2009) Biosafety and Biosecurity
• CIP Report (October 2009) Aging Infrastructure
• CIP Report (November 2009) Chemical Sector
Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)
• CNA's Integrated Ship Database (ISDB): A Rapid-Access Database of Naval Ship Information
• Impacts of Climate Change on Colombia’s National and Regional Security
Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)
• The War in Afghanistan in Strategic Context
Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
• Energy and Geopolitics in China: Mixing Oil and Politics
• Iraq: Security Trends
• Issues in International Political Economy - November 2009 - Number 119
o The Cost of Questionable Policies
• The MAGAI™ Construct and the Northern Distribution Network
• Policy Brief Number 5: Kazakhstan and the OSCE Human Dimension
Centre for Military and Strategic Studies
• The Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, Fall 2009, v. 12, no. 1
o Olympic Security: Assessing the Risk of Terrorism at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games
o A Special Military Relationship? Canada’s Role in Constructing US Military Power
o Shared Sacrifice? An Inquiry into the Willingness to Perform Compulsory Military Service
o Explaining the Interbellum Rupture in Japanese Treatment of Prisoners of War
o Taking Care of Business: Canada’s Forgotten Cold War Conflict in Cyprus, July-August, 1974
o Permanent Allies? The Canada-US Defence Relationship
o Canada's Army - Post Peacekeeping
The Century Foundation
• Challenges and Opportunities for Russia-US Nuclear Arms Control
Chatham House
• World Today, December 2009, v. 65, no. 12
o Pakistan: Clear, Hold, Build
Chemical and Biological Defense Program
• Joint Service Chemical and Biological Defense Program FY 08-09 Overview
Combat Terrorism Center (CTC)
• CTC Sentinel, v. 2, no. 11, November 2009
o Lashkar-i-Tayyiba: One Year After Mumbai By Stephen Tankel
o Success of the Meta-Narrative: How Jihadists Maintain Legitimacy
o AQIM and the Growth of International Investment in North Africa
o Hizb Allah's Domestic Containment and Regional Expansion Strategies
o Jihadist Radicalization and the 2004 Madrid Bombing Network
o The Past and Future of Deobandi Islam By Luv Puri
o Maintaining the Message: How Jihadists Have Adapted to Web Disruptions
o Recent Highlights in Terrorist Activity
Congress. House. Armed Services Committee
• Hearings
o Resourcing the National Defense Strategy: Implications of Long Term Defense Budget Trends [November 18, 2009]
o Iraq and Afghanistan: Perspectives on U.S. Strategy, Part III [November 17, 2009]
Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee
• Is it Time to Lift the Ban on Travel to Cuba?
• The State of Political and Religious Freedom in the Middle East
• Flag on the Bag?: Foreign Assistance and the Struggle Against Terrorism
Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee
• Reassessing the Evolving al-Qa’ida Threat to the Homeland
• Is the Flying Public Protected? An Assessment of Security at Foreign Repair Stations
• Federal Protective Service: Will Continuing Challenges Weaken Transition and Impede Progress?
Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee
• Examining U.S. Counterterrorism Priorities and Strategy Across Africa's Sahel Region
• The U.S. and the G-20: Remaking the International Economic Architecture
• Threats to Free and Independent Media Around the World
Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee
• The Fort Hood Attack: A Preliminary Assessment
• Accountability for Foreign Contractors: The Lieutenant Colonel Dominic ‘Rocky’ Baragona Justice for American Heroes Harmed by Contractors Act
• H1N1 Flu: Getting the Vaccine to Where It Is Most Needed
Congress. Senate. Judiciary Committee
• Cybersecurity: Preventing Terrorist Attacks and Protecting Privacy in Cyberspace
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
• Long-term Implications of the Department of Defense’s Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Submission
Council on Foreign Relations
• Disillusionment in Afghanistan
• Public Opinion on Global Issues
Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)
• D-2010-022 Management of Nontactical Vehicles in Support of Operation Iraqi Freedom
Department of Homeland Security Inspector General
• OIG-10-06 - Review of the U.S. Coast Guard's Expenditure Plans for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Redacted)
Department of State
• 2009 Report on International Religious Freedom
Director of National Intelligence (DNI)
• The Inaugural Report of the Global Maritime and Air Communities of Interest Intelligence Enterprises
Gallup Poll
• Afghans Assess Roles for NATO, U.N., Regional Actors
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
• Combating Nuclear Smuggling: Recent Testing Raises Issues About the Potential Effectiveness of Advanced Radiation Detection Portal Monitors, GAO-10-252T [testimony]
• Critical Infrastructure Protection: OMB Leadership Needed to Strengthen Agency Planning Efforts to Protect Federal Cyber Assets, GAO-10-148
• Cybersecurity: Continued Efforts Are Needed to Protect Information Systems from Evolving Threats, GAO-10-230T [testimony]
• Corporate Crime: Prosecutors Adhered to Guidance in Selecting Monitors for Deferred Prosecution and Non-Prosecution Agreements, but DOJ Could Better Communicate Its Role in Resolving Conflicts, GAO-10-260T [testimony]
• Defense Acquisitions: Further Actions Needed to Address Weaknesses in DOD's Management of Professional and Management Support Contracts, GAO-10-39
• Defense Health Care: Post-Deployment Health Reassessment Documentation Needs Improvement, GAO-10-56
• Homeland Security: Greater Attention to Key Practices Would Improve the Federal Protective Service's Approach to Facility Protection, GAO-10-142
• Homeland Security: Greater Attention to Key Practices Would Help Address Security Vulnerabilities at Federal Buildings, GAO-10-236T [testimony]
• Homeland Security: Key US-VISIT Components at Varying Stages of Completion, but Integrated and Reliable Schedule Needed, GAO-10-13
• Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Program: Case Studies Show Fraud and Abuse Allowed Ineligible Firms to Obtain Millions of Dollars in Contracts, GAO-10-108
• Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Program: Case Studies Show Fraud and Abuse Allowed Ineligible Firms to Obtain Millions of Dollars in Contracts, GAO-10-255T [testimony]
Heritage Foundation
• The “Kyoto II” Climate Change Treaty: Implications for American Sovereignty
• Move to Hastily Retire Legacy Fighter Aircraft puts Air Sovereignty at Risk
• START Follow-On Treaty Could Interfere with Conventional Strike Systems
• Trade Dispute Undercuts Obama's Korea Trip
• Swine Flu and Sick Leave: Improvements to the Emergency Influenza Containment Act Would Save Jobs
Human Rights Watch
• "An Alleyway in Hell": China's Abusive "Black Jails"
• New Castro, Same Cuba: Political Prisoners in the Post-Fidel Era
• On Vulnerable Ground: Violence against Minority Communities in Nineveh Province’s Disputed Territories
IDEEA Inc.
• Common Defense Quarterly, Winter 2009
o Export Control Reform – Once More With Feeling
o “Smart Power: Old Wine in New Bottles?”
o Hard Choices for the Common Defense: Trade Equity and the Shared Political Burden
o Refocusing A Tradition: U.S. Navy Support For Partner Maritime Capacity Building
o Enabling Coalition Operations to Support the Maritime Common Defense
o Origins of a Four Decade Success Story: NATO SeaSparrow’s founders got it right
o Implementing Australia’s Defence White Paper 2009– the need for Signposts and Indicators
o NATO’s Strategic Airlift Capability Achieves Full Operational Capability
o Canada and the United States -- A Forum on Afghanistan
o Cooling the Cauldron in the Caucasus
o Interview with Richard Paniguian, Head, Defence & Security Organization, Ministry of Defence, UK
o United States National Guard Force Structure Part One: People
International Peace Institute
• The Invisible Tide: Towards an International Strategy to Deal with Drug Trafficking Through West Africa
Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses
• US-Induced Privatization of Security in Pakistan
Institute for Security Studies
• Bringing Fairness to International Justice, A Handbook on the International Criminal Court for Defence Lawyers in Africa
Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)
• Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions 1737 (2006), 1747 (2007), 1803 (2008) and 1835 (2008) in the Islamic Republic of Iran
• Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Syrian Arab Republic
• New Satellite Image Further Narrows Fordow (Iran) Construction Start Date
Institute for the Study of War
• Afghanistan Order of Battle • Forces Available for Afghanistan, 2009-10
International Relations and Security Network
• Caught Between Pristina and Belgrade
• EU Sees Through Belarus Smoke
• Mexican Cartels’ Andean Stronghold
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America
• Women Warriors—Supporting ‘She Who Has Won The Battle’
Jamestown Foundation
• China Brief, v. 9, no. 23, November 19 2009
o The CCP’s Disturbing Revival of Maoism
o Chinese Coast Guard Development: Challenge and Opportunity
o The evolution of Taiwan’s Military Strategy: Convergence and Dissonance
o Chinese Analyses of Soviet Failure: The Party
• Terrorism Monitor, v. 7, no. 35, November 20 2009
o A Shift in Terrorist Strategy Threatens Italian National Security
o Iranian Leaders Weigh Support for the Houthi Rebellion in Yemen
o Combating Terrorism in Asian Waters
o The Jihadis and the Cause of South Yemen: A Profile of Tariq al-Fadhli
McAfee
• Virtual Criminology Report 2009: Virtually Here: The Age of Cyber Warfare
National Security Archive
• The Soviet Origins of Helmut Kohl's 10 Points
Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)
• A Modern Navy with Chinese Characteristics
Office of the Command Surgeon, US Forces Afghanistan (USFOR-A) and the Office of The Surgeon General United States Army Medical Command
• Mental Health Advisory Team (MHAT) 6 Operation Enduring Freedom 2009 Afghanistan
Oxfam International and others
• The Cost of War: Afghan Experiences of Conflict, 1978-2009
Quilliam Foundation
• Unlocking Al-Qaeda: Islamist Extremism in British Prisons
Rand
• Examining U.S. Counterterrorism Priorities and Strategy Across Africa's Sahel Region
• Going Jihad: The Fort Hood Slayings and Home-Grown Terrorism
Small Wars Journal
• The Hasan Slide Presentation
• A Strategy of Exhaustion
South Asia Analysis Group
• The 313 Brigade - International Terrorism Monitor - Paper No. 579
• Special Services Group & PAK-Sponsored Terrorism-International Terrorism Monitor: Paper No.578
South Asia Intelligence Review
• Weekly Assessments & Briefings, v. 8, no. 18, November 9, 2009
o South Waziristan: Blind Fury
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
• Map of Multilateral Peace Operations Deployments
SpaceSecurity.org
• Space Security 2009
Stanley Foundation
• Securing Vulnerable Nuclear Materials: Meeting the Global Challenge
• Talking about Nuclear Weapons with the Persuadable Middle
Strategic Studies Institute
• YouTube War: Fighting in a World of Cameras in Every Cell Phone and Photoshop on Every Computer
Transnational Institute
• Mexico: The Law Against Small-Scale Drug Dealing
Transparency International
• Corruption Perceptions Index 2009
UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)
• 2009 Report on International Religious Freedom – Pakistan
US Air Forces Central
• Airpower Summary [Daily - OEF/OIF]
• Combined Forces Air Component Commander 2004-2009 Airpower Statistics [current as of 2 Nov]
U.S.-China Economic & Security Review Commission
• 2009 Report to Congress
US Institute of Peace (USIP)
• The Afghan Elections: What Happened and Where Do We Go From Here?
• Looking for Justice: Liberian Experiences with and Perceptions of Local Justice Options
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Diagnosing the Impasse in the Middle East Peace Process
• A General's Plan for Peace
• Hamas and Its Long-Range Rockets: Military and Political Implications
• Iraq's Elections Challenge: A Shifting Political Landscape
• Iraq's Enduring al-Qaeda Challenge
• A Victory for Islamism? The Second Lebanon War and Its Repercussions
World Health Organization (WHO)
• Interim Planning Considerations for Mass Gatherings in the Context of Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Influenza
• Battle for the Bundestag: The German Election of 2009
• The Politics of History in Germany and Japan
Australian Strategic Policy Institute
• How to Buy a Submarine: Defining and Building Australia’s Future Fleet
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
• Beyond Zero Enrichment: Suggestions for an Iranian Nuclear Deal
Brookings
• Vision for Victory in Afghanistan - Part I
• Vision for Victory in Afghanistan - Part II
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Fixing a Failed Strategy in Afghanistan
• Iran, the United States, and the Gulf: The Elusive Regional Policy
• Manmohan Singh Visits Washington: Sustaining US-Indian Cooperation Amid Differences
• Middle East Democracy Promotion Is Not a One-Way Street
• Restoring the NPT: Essential Steps for 2010
CATO Institute
• Bending the Productivity Curve: Why America Leads the World in Medical Innovation
Center for a New American Security
• On the Knife's Edge: Yemen's Instability and the Threat to American Interests
Center for American Progress
• How to Make the Afghanistan War a “Just War”
• Integrating Security: Preparing for the National Security Threats of the 21st Century
Center for Contemporary Conflict, Program for Culture & Conflict Studies
• Culture & Conflict Review, Fall 2009, v. 3, no. 3
o Developing an IO Environmental Assessment in Khost Province, Afghanistan
o Engaging Afghans: KLE Keys to Success
o The Federally Administered Tribal Areas: A Case Study in Health Capital and Democracy
o Employing Data Fusion in Cultural Analysis and Counterinsurgency in Tribal Social Systems
o The Status of US/ISAF Strategic Communications Efforts in Afghanistan
o Operation Nusrat (Victory): Understanding the Taliban Threat to Kunduz Province
o Clan, the State, and War: Balancing the Subcomponents of World Order
o Afghan Theatre Conference Aims to Impact Strategies in the Field
Center for Immigration Studies (CIS)
• Immigration and Crime: Assessing a Conflicted Issue
Center for Infrastructure Protection (CIP)
• CIP Report (September 2009) Biosafety and Biosecurity
• CIP Report (October 2009) Aging Infrastructure
• CIP Report (November 2009) Chemical Sector
Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)
• CNA's Integrated Ship Database (ISDB): A Rapid-Access Database of Naval Ship Information
• Impacts of Climate Change on Colombia’s National and Regional Security
Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)
• The War in Afghanistan in Strategic Context
Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
• Energy and Geopolitics in China: Mixing Oil and Politics
• Iraq: Security Trends
• Issues in International Political Economy - November 2009 - Number 119
o The Cost of Questionable Policies
• The MAGAI™ Construct and the Northern Distribution Network
• Policy Brief Number 5: Kazakhstan and the OSCE Human Dimension
Centre for Military and Strategic Studies
• The Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, Fall 2009, v. 12, no. 1
o Olympic Security: Assessing the Risk of Terrorism at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games
o A Special Military Relationship? Canada’s Role in Constructing US Military Power
o Shared Sacrifice? An Inquiry into the Willingness to Perform Compulsory Military Service
o Explaining the Interbellum Rupture in Japanese Treatment of Prisoners of War
o Taking Care of Business: Canada’s Forgotten Cold War Conflict in Cyprus, July-August, 1974
o Permanent Allies? The Canada-US Defence Relationship
o Canada's Army - Post Peacekeeping
The Century Foundation
• Challenges and Opportunities for Russia-US Nuclear Arms Control
Chatham House
• World Today, December 2009, v. 65, no. 12
o Pakistan: Clear, Hold, Build
Chemical and Biological Defense Program
• Joint Service Chemical and Biological Defense Program FY 08-09 Overview
Combat Terrorism Center (CTC)
• CTC Sentinel, v. 2, no. 11, November 2009
o Lashkar-i-Tayyiba: One Year After Mumbai By Stephen Tankel
o Success of the Meta-Narrative: How Jihadists Maintain Legitimacy
o AQIM and the Growth of International Investment in North Africa
o Hizb Allah's Domestic Containment and Regional Expansion Strategies
o Jihadist Radicalization and the 2004 Madrid Bombing Network
o The Past and Future of Deobandi Islam By Luv Puri
o Maintaining the Message: How Jihadists Have Adapted to Web Disruptions
o Recent Highlights in Terrorist Activity
Congress. House. Armed Services Committee
• Hearings
o Resourcing the National Defense Strategy: Implications of Long Term Defense Budget Trends [November 18, 2009]
o Iraq and Afghanistan: Perspectives on U.S. Strategy, Part III [November 17, 2009]
Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee
• Is it Time to Lift the Ban on Travel to Cuba?
• The State of Political and Religious Freedom in the Middle East
• Flag on the Bag?: Foreign Assistance and the Struggle Against Terrorism
Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee
• Reassessing the Evolving al-Qa’ida Threat to the Homeland
• Is the Flying Public Protected? An Assessment of Security at Foreign Repair Stations
• Federal Protective Service: Will Continuing Challenges Weaken Transition and Impede Progress?
Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee
• Examining U.S. Counterterrorism Priorities and Strategy Across Africa's Sahel Region
• The U.S. and the G-20: Remaking the International Economic Architecture
• Threats to Free and Independent Media Around the World
Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee
• The Fort Hood Attack: A Preliminary Assessment
• Accountability for Foreign Contractors: The Lieutenant Colonel Dominic ‘Rocky’ Baragona Justice for American Heroes Harmed by Contractors Act
• H1N1 Flu: Getting the Vaccine to Where It Is Most Needed
Congress. Senate. Judiciary Committee
• Cybersecurity: Preventing Terrorist Attacks and Protecting Privacy in Cyberspace
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
• Long-term Implications of the Department of Defense’s Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Submission
Council on Foreign Relations
• Disillusionment in Afghanistan
• Public Opinion on Global Issues
Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)
• D-2010-022 Management of Nontactical Vehicles in Support of Operation Iraqi Freedom
Department of Homeland Security Inspector General
• OIG-10-06 - Review of the U.S. Coast Guard's Expenditure Plans for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Redacted)
Department of State
• 2009 Report on International Religious Freedom
Director of National Intelligence (DNI)
• The Inaugural Report of the Global Maritime and Air Communities of Interest Intelligence Enterprises
Gallup Poll
• Afghans Assess Roles for NATO, U.N., Regional Actors
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
• Combating Nuclear Smuggling: Recent Testing Raises Issues About the Potential Effectiveness of Advanced Radiation Detection Portal Monitors, GAO-10-252T [testimony]
• Critical Infrastructure Protection: OMB Leadership Needed to Strengthen Agency Planning Efforts to Protect Federal Cyber Assets, GAO-10-148
• Cybersecurity: Continued Efforts Are Needed to Protect Information Systems from Evolving Threats, GAO-10-230T [testimony]
• Corporate Crime: Prosecutors Adhered to Guidance in Selecting Monitors for Deferred Prosecution and Non-Prosecution Agreements, but DOJ Could Better Communicate Its Role in Resolving Conflicts, GAO-10-260T [testimony]
• Defense Acquisitions: Further Actions Needed to Address Weaknesses in DOD's Management of Professional and Management Support Contracts, GAO-10-39
• Defense Health Care: Post-Deployment Health Reassessment Documentation Needs Improvement, GAO-10-56
• Homeland Security: Greater Attention to Key Practices Would Improve the Federal Protective Service's Approach to Facility Protection, GAO-10-142
• Homeland Security: Greater Attention to Key Practices Would Help Address Security Vulnerabilities at Federal Buildings, GAO-10-236T [testimony]
• Homeland Security: Key US-VISIT Components at Varying Stages of Completion, but Integrated and Reliable Schedule Needed, GAO-10-13
• Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Program: Case Studies Show Fraud and Abuse Allowed Ineligible Firms to Obtain Millions of Dollars in Contracts, GAO-10-108
• Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Program: Case Studies Show Fraud and Abuse Allowed Ineligible Firms to Obtain Millions of Dollars in Contracts, GAO-10-255T [testimony]
Heritage Foundation
• The “Kyoto II” Climate Change Treaty: Implications for American Sovereignty
• Move to Hastily Retire Legacy Fighter Aircraft puts Air Sovereignty at Risk
• START Follow-On Treaty Could Interfere with Conventional Strike Systems
• Trade Dispute Undercuts Obama's Korea Trip
• Swine Flu and Sick Leave: Improvements to the Emergency Influenza Containment Act Would Save Jobs
Human Rights Watch
• "An Alleyway in Hell": China's Abusive "Black Jails"
• New Castro, Same Cuba: Political Prisoners in the Post-Fidel Era
• On Vulnerable Ground: Violence against Minority Communities in Nineveh Province’s Disputed Territories
IDEEA Inc.
• Common Defense Quarterly, Winter 2009
o Export Control Reform – Once More With Feeling
o “Smart Power: Old Wine in New Bottles?”
o Hard Choices for the Common Defense: Trade Equity and the Shared Political Burden
o Refocusing A Tradition: U.S. Navy Support For Partner Maritime Capacity Building
o Enabling Coalition Operations to Support the Maritime Common Defense
o Origins of a Four Decade Success Story: NATO SeaSparrow’s founders got it right
o Implementing Australia’s Defence White Paper 2009– the need for Signposts and Indicators
o NATO’s Strategic Airlift Capability Achieves Full Operational Capability
o Canada and the United States -- A Forum on Afghanistan
o Cooling the Cauldron in the Caucasus
o Interview with Richard Paniguian, Head, Defence & Security Organization, Ministry of Defence, UK
o United States National Guard Force Structure Part One: People
International Peace Institute
• The Invisible Tide: Towards an International Strategy to Deal with Drug Trafficking Through West Africa
Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses
• US-Induced Privatization of Security in Pakistan
Institute for Security Studies
• Bringing Fairness to International Justice, A Handbook on the International Criminal Court for Defence Lawyers in Africa
Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)
• Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions 1737 (2006), 1747 (2007), 1803 (2008) and 1835 (2008) in the Islamic Republic of Iran
• Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Syrian Arab Republic
• New Satellite Image Further Narrows Fordow (Iran) Construction Start Date
Institute for the Study of War
• Afghanistan Order of Battle • Forces Available for Afghanistan, 2009-10
International Relations and Security Network
• Caught Between Pristina and Belgrade
• EU Sees Through Belarus Smoke
• Mexican Cartels’ Andean Stronghold
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America
• Women Warriors—Supporting ‘She Who Has Won The Battle’
Jamestown Foundation
• China Brief, v. 9, no. 23, November 19 2009
o The CCP’s Disturbing Revival of Maoism
o Chinese Coast Guard Development: Challenge and Opportunity
o The evolution of Taiwan’s Military Strategy: Convergence and Dissonance
o Chinese Analyses of Soviet Failure: The Party
• Terrorism Monitor, v. 7, no. 35, November 20 2009
o A Shift in Terrorist Strategy Threatens Italian National Security
o Iranian Leaders Weigh Support for the Houthi Rebellion in Yemen
o Combating Terrorism in Asian Waters
o The Jihadis and the Cause of South Yemen: A Profile of Tariq al-Fadhli
McAfee
• Virtual Criminology Report 2009: Virtually Here: The Age of Cyber Warfare
National Security Archive
• The Soviet Origins of Helmut Kohl's 10 Points
Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)
• A Modern Navy with Chinese Characteristics
Office of the Command Surgeon, US Forces Afghanistan (USFOR-A) and the Office of The Surgeon General United States Army Medical Command
• Mental Health Advisory Team (MHAT) 6 Operation Enduring Freedom 2009 Afghanistan
Oxfam International and others
• The Cost of War: Afghan Experiences of Conflict, 1978-2009
Quilliam Foundation
• Unlocking Al-Qaeda: Islamist Extremism in British Prisons
Rand
• Examining U.S. Counterterrorism Priorities and Strategy Across Africa's Sahel Region
• Going Jihad: The Fort Hood Slayings and Home-Grown Terrorism
Small Wars Journal
• The Hasan Slide Presentation
• A Strategy of Exhaustion
South Asia Analysis Group
• The 313 Brigade - International Terrorism Monitor - Paper No. 579
• Special Services Group & PAK-Sponsored Terrorism-International Terrorism Monitor: Paper No.578
South Asia Intelligence Review
• Weekly Assessments & Briefings, v. 8, no. 18, November 9, 2009
o South Waziristan: Blind Fury
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
• Map of Multilateral Peace Operations Deployments
SpaceSecurity.org
• Space Security 2009
Stanley Foundation
• Securing Vulnerable Nuclear Materials: Meeting the Global Challenge
• Talking about Nuclear Weapons with the Persuadable Middle
Strategic Studies Institute
• YouTube War: Fighting in a World of Cameras in Every Cell Phone and Photoshop on Every Computer
Transnational Institute
• Mexico: The Law Against Small-Scale Drug Dealing
Transparency International
• Corruption Perceptions Index 2009
UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)
• 2009 Report on International Religious Freedom – Pakistan
US Air Forces Central
• Airpower Summary [Daily - OEF/OIF]
• Combined Forces Air Component Commander 2004-2009 Airpower Statistics [current as of 2 Nov]
U.S.-China Economic & Security Review Commission
• 2009 Report to Congress
US Institute of Peace (USIP)
• The Afghan Elections: What Happened and Where Do We Go From Here?
• Looking for Justice: Liberian Experiences with and Perceptions of Local Justice Options
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Diagnosing the Impasse in the Middle East Peace Process
• A General's Plan for Peace
• Hamas and Its Long-Range Rockets: Military and Political Implications
• Iraq's Elections Challenge: A Shifting Political Landscape
• Iraq's Enduring al-Qaeda Challenge
• A Victory for Islamism? The Second Lebanon War and Its Repercussions
World Health Organization (WHO)
• Interim Planning Considerations for Mass Gatherings in the Context of Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Influenza
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Friday's Miscellany 11-13-2009
American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)
• Different Beds, Same Nightmare: The Politics of History in Germany and Japan
• Implications of the 2009 German Election
Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)
• The Canada First Defence Strategy - One Year Later
• Measuring Effectiveness in Complex Operations: What is Good Enough?
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Iran, the United States, and the Gulf: The Elusive Regional Policy
• U.S. Afghan Strategy: The Big Questions
CDW
• Federal Cybersecurity Report: Danger on the Front Lines
Center for a New American Security
• Hard Lessons: Navigating Negotiations with the DPRK
Center for American Progress
• Getting Back on Track to Close Guantanamo: How to Get to Zero
• The Next Phase: CAP Trip Report and Findings on the Future U.S.-China Relations
Center for Complex Operations (CCO)
• Prism, v. 1, no. 1, December 2009
o Stabilization and Reconstruction: A Long Beginning
o Through the Complex Operations Prism
o Addressing the Problem of Failed States: A New Instrument
o Military Adaptation in Complex Operations
o Complex Operations and Interagency Operational Art
o Organizing for Victory
o Time Lag and Sequencing Dilemmas of Postconflict Reconstruction
o National Security Reform: A Prerequisite for Successful Complex Operations
o A New Approach to the Delivery of U.S. Assistance to Afghanistan
o Provincial Reconstruction Teams: A Literature Review
o An Interview with Richard L. Armitage
Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
• The Afghan Narcotics Industry: A Summary
• The Afghan Narcotics Industry: Extended Summary
• The European Approach to Global Health
• Global Health Interventions for U.S. Food and Drug Safety
• Significant Cyber Events Since 2006
• Terrorism and WMD: The Link with the War in Afghanistan
• Transnational Threats Update October 2009 - Vol. 7, No. 8
o Turbulence in the Taliban/al Qaeda Relationship
o Adlene Hicheur French Physicist, al Qaeda Supporter?
o al Qaeda Threatens China over Uighurs
o Accusations Fly in Wake of Team Massacre
o Yemen Accuses Iranian Sailors of Arms Smuggling
o Indian Drawdown Highlights J&K Disparity
o Drug Wars Explode in Rio de Janiero
o Serbia Targets the Drug Trade
o American Scientist a Spy for Israel?
o New Report: China is preparing for IW
• The United States and Korea Leading beyond the Storm
• Water and Agriculture: Implications for Development and Growth: Identifying Common Ground for a U.S.-EU Agenda
Centre for Social Cohesion (CSC)
• Anwar al-Awlaki: The UK Connection
Central Intelligence Agency FOIA Office
• Preparing for Martial Law: Through the Eyes of Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski
• Soviet and Warsaw Pact Military Journals
Chatham House
• The DPRK and China: Hard Choices
• The Red Flag Rises: South Africa at the Crossroads
• Turkey, Russia and the Caucasus: Common and Diverging Interests
Conciliation Resources
• Out of the Margins: Securing a Voice for Internally Displaced People: Lessons from Georgia
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
• Enhancing U.S. Preventative Action
• Global Imbalances, National Rebalancing, and the Political Economy of Recovery
• Gloomy Prospects for World Growth
• Improving Resolution Options for Systemically Relevant Financial Institutions
• Political Instability in Egypt
• Understanding the Armed Groups of the Niger Delta
• The United States in the New Asia
• U.S. Immigration Policy
Department of Defense
• Report to Congress on Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq
Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DODIG)
• D-2010-015, DOD Civil Support During the 2007 and 2008 California Wildland Fires
• Interagency Review of Prior Inspector General Recommendations Related to U.S. Export Controls, Volume II, September 2008
Department of Justice Inspector General
• A Review of the Department’s Anti-Gang Intelligence and Coordination Centers
Egmont Institute, Royal Institute for International Relations
• End-State Afghanistan: A European Perspective
• A New Security Architecture for Europe? Russian Proposal and Western Reactions
European Union Institute for Security Studies
• The Obama Moment
• Risky Business? The EU, China and Dual-Use Technology
Foreign Policy Research Institute
• The Obama-Hu Summit
• Reforming the Afghan National Army (ANA)
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
• Defense Acquisitions: Strategic Airlift Gap Has Been Addressed, but Tactical Airlift Plans Are Evolving as Key Issues Have Not Been Resolved, GAO-10-67
• Defense Infrastructure: Guam Needs Timely Information from DOD to Meet Challenges in Planning and Financing Off-Base Projects and Programs to Support a Larger Military Presence, GAO-10-90R
• Information Security: Actions Needed to Manage, Protect, and Sustain Improvements to Los Alamos National Laboratory's Classified Computer Network, GAO-10-28
• International Monetary Fund: Lending Programs Allow for Negotiations and Are Consistent with Economic Literature, GAO-10-44
• Military and Veterans' Benefits: Analysis of VA Compensation Levels for Survivors of Veterans and Servicemembers, GAO-10-62
• Military Base Realignments and Closures: Estimated Costs Have Increased While Savings Estimates Have Decreased Since Fiscal Year 2009, GAO-10-98R
• U.S. Marshals: Qualifications and Comparison of Demographic Characteristics to Their Counterparts in Selected Federal Law Enforcement Agencies, GAO-10-15R
Heritage Foundation
• Copenhagen Climate Change Conference Could Threaten National Security
• Dangerous Trajectories: Obama's Approach to Arms Control Misreads Russian Nuclear Strategy
• Japan's Security Policy: Navigating the Troubled Waters Ahead
• A Meaningful Agenda for President Obama's Meeting with Southeast Asian Leaders
• President Obama Has a Full Plate in First Visit to China
• Revenge of the Dirty Dozen: 12 Policies that Undermine Civil Society
• The Three Reaffirms: Suggested Agenda for President Obama's Visit to China
• The U.N. Human Rights Council: No Better for Obama's Engagement
Immigration Policy Center
• Essential to the Fight: Immigrants in the Military Eight Years after 9/11
Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)
• Satellite Imagery Narrows Qom (Iran) Enrichment Facility Construction Start Date
Institute for Security Studies
• Policy Brief No 16: Addressing the Challenges of Law Enforcement in Africa, Policing in Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Zambia
• Policy Brief No 17: A Place for Tradition in an Effective Criminal Justice System, Customary Justice in Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Zambia
Institute for the Study of Labor
• Persistence of Civil Wars
International Crisis Group
• Bosnia’s Dual Crisis
• Palestine: Salvaging Fatah
International Organization for Migration
• Assessment of Return to Iraq
International Relations and Security Network
• Baghdad Divided
• Can Greece Lead the Way?
• Europe’s Gas Dilemma
• The Politics of Private Force in the Philippines
• Should C Asia Fear Taliban Spillover?
• Superpower Summitry: Sino-US Relations
Jamestown Foundation
• Terrorism Monitor, v. 7, no. 34, November 13, 2009
span style="font-size:85%;"> o Turkish Navy's Fight Against Piracy in the Gulf of Aden Serves Foreign Policy Goals
o Neo-Zarqawists Target the Arab Christians of Jordan
o The Hunt for Pakistan's Most Wanted Terrorists
o Perspectives on the Future of the Somali Jihad
Lowy Institute
• Problems to Partnership: A Plan for Australia-India Strategic Ties
• Stemming the 'Evil Flowers' [IEDs]
National Bureau of Asian Research
• Pakistani Partnerships with the United States: An Assessment
National Security Archive
• The Taliban Biography: The Structure and Leadership of the Taliban 1996-2002
NATO Defense College
• An Assessment of Crime Related Risks in the Sahel
Pak Institute for Peace Studies
• Pakistan Security Report (October 2009)
• South Asia Conflict Report: October 2009
• Tribal Region Conflict Report (October 19 to October 26 to November 1, 2009)
Peterson Institute for International Economics
• America, Europe, and the New Trade Order
• The Impact of the Financial Crisis on Emerging Asia
Pew Global Attitudes Project
• Americans and Western Europeans Agree on Afghanistan-Pakistan Extremist Threat
Small Wars Journal
• Afghanistan: Seven Fundamental Questions
• A Better Understanding of the Vietnam War
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)
• October 2009 Quarterly Report
Stanley Foundation
• Securing Vulnerable Nuclear Materials: Meeting the Global Challenge
• Sudan and the Implications for Responsibility to Protect
Stimson Center
• Islam and Politics: Renewal and Resistance in the Muslim World
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
• China’s Expanding Role in Peacekeeping: Prospects and Policy Implications
US Coast Guard (USCG)
• Revised Catastrophic Incident Search and Rescue Addendum to the National Search and Rescue Supplement
US Institute of Peace (USIP)
• The Current Status of Religious Coexistence and Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Lebanon's Unstable Equilibrium
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Iran and Hizballah: Significance of the Francop Interception
• Small War or Big Problem? Fighting on the Yemeni-Saudi Border
• Stuck in Neutral? Diagnosing the Impasse in the Middle East Peace Process
• A Victory for Islamism? The Second Lebanon War and Its Repercussions
World Bank
• Country Aggregate Reports
World Public Opinion.org
• Images of China and the United States Around the World
• Wide Dissatisfaction with Capitalism -- Twenty Years after Fall of Berlin Wall
Worldwatch Institute
• Vital Signs Online
• Different Beds, Same Nightmare: The Politics of History in Germany and Japan
• Implications of the 2009 German Election
Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)
• The Canada First Defence Strategy - One Year Later
• Measuring Effectiveness in Complex Operations: What is Good Enough?
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Iran, the United States, and the Gulf: The Elusive Regional Policy
• U.S. Afghan Strategy: The Big Questions
CDW
• Federal Cybersecurity Report: Danger on the Front Lines
Center for a New American Security
• Hard Lessons: Navigating Negotiations with the DPRK
Center for American Progress
• Getting Back on Track to Close Guantanamo: How to Get to Zero
• The Next Phase: CAP Trip Report and Findings on the Future U.S.-China Relations
Center for Complex Operations (CCO)
• Prism, v. 1, no. 1, December 2009
o Stabilization and Reconstruction: A Long Beginning
o Through the Complex Operations Prism
o Addressing the Problem of Failed States: A New Instrument
o Military Adaptation in Complex Operations
o Complex Operations and Interagency Operational Art
o Organizing for Victory
o Time Lag and Sequencing Dilemmas of Postconflict Reconstruction
o National Security Reform: A Prerequisite for Successful Complex Operations
o A New Approach to the Delivery of U.S. Assistance to Afghanistan
o Provincial Reconstruction Teams: A Literature Review
o An Interview with Richard L. Armitage
Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
• The Afghan Narcotics Industry: A Summary
• The Afghan Narcotics Industry: Extended Summary
• The European Approach to Global Health
• Global Health Interventions for U.S. Food and Drug Safety
• Significant Cyber Events Since 2006
• Terrorism and WMD: The Link with the War in Afghanistan
• Transnational Threats Update October 2009 - Vol. 7, No. 8
o Turbulence in the Taliban/al Qaeda Relationship
o Adlene Hicheur French Physicist, al Qaeda Supporter?
o al Qaeda Threatens China over Uighurs
o Accusations Fly in Wake of Team Massacre
o Yemen Accuses Iranian Sailors of Arms Smuggling
o Indian Drawdown Highlights J&K Disparity
o Drug Wars Explode in Rio de Janiero
o Serbia Targets the Drug Trade
o American Scientist a Spy for Israel?
o New Report: China is preparing for IW
• The United States and Korea Leading beyond the Storm
• Water and Agriculture: Implications for Development and Growth: Identifying Common Ground for a U.S.-EU Agenda
Centre for Social Cohesion (CSC)
• Anwar al-Awlaki: The UK Connection
Central Intelligence Agency FOIA Office
• Preparing for Martial Law: Through the Eyes of Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski
• Soviet and Warsaw Pact Military Journals
Chatham House
• The DPRK and China: Hard Choices
• The Red Flag Rises: South Africa at the Crossroads
• Turkey, Russia and the Caucasus: Common and Diverging Interests
Conciliation Resources
• Out of the Margins: Securing a Voice for Internally Displaced People: Lessons from Georgia
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
• Enhancing U.S. Preventative Action
• Global Imbalances, National Rebalancing, and the Political Economy of Recovery
• Gloomy Prospects for World Growth
• Improving Resolution Options for Systemically Relevant Financial Institutions
• Political Instability in Egypt
• Understanding the Armed Groups of the Niger Delta
• The United States in the New Asia
• U.S. Immigration Policy
Department of Defense
• Report to Congress on Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq
Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DODIG)
• D-2010-015, DOD Civil Support During the 2007 and 2008 California Wildland Fires
• Interagency Review of Prior Inspector General Recommendations Related to U.S. Export Controls, Volume II, September 2008
Department of Justice Inspector General
• A Review of the Department’s Anti-Gang Intelligence and Coordination Centers
Egmont Institute, Royal Institute for International Relations
• End-State Afghanistan: A European Perspective
• A New Security Architecture for Europe? Russian Proposal and Western Reactions
European Union Institute for Security Studies
• The Obama Moment
• Risky Business? The EU, China and Dual-Use Technology
Foreign Policy Research Institute
• The Obama-Hu Summit
• Reforming the Afghan National Army (ANA)
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
• Defense Acquisitions: Strategic Airlift Gap Has Been Addressed, but Tactical Airlift Plans Are Evolving as Key Issues Have Not Been Resolved, GAO-10-67
• Defense Infrastructure: Guam Needs Timely Information from DOD to Meet Challenges in Planning and Financing Off-Base Projects and Programs to Support a Larger Military Presence, GAO-10-90R
• Information Security: Actions Needed to Manage, Protect, and Sustain Improvements to Los Alamos National Laboratory's Classified Computer Network, GAO-10-28
• International Monetary Fund: Lending Programs Allow for Negotiations and Are Consistent with Economic Literature, GAO-10-44
• Military and Veterans' Benefits: Analysis of VA Compensation Levels for Survivors of Veterans and Servicemembers, GAO-10-62
• Military Base Realignments and Closures: Estimated Costs Have Increased While Savings Estimates Have Decreased Since Fiscal Year 2009, GAO-10-98R
• U.S. Marshals: Qualifications and Comparison of Demographic Characteristics to Their Counterparts in Selected Federal Law Enforcement Agencies, GAO-10-15R
Heritage Foundation
• Copenhagen Climate Change Conference Could Threaten National Security
• Dangerous Trajectories: Obama's Approach to Arms Control Misreads Russian Nuclear Strategy
• Japan's Security Policy: Navigating the Troubled Waters Ahead
• A Meaningful Agenda for President Obama's Meeting with Southeast Asian Leaders
• President Obama Has a Full Plate in First Visit to China
• Revenge of the Dirty Dozen: 12 Policies that Undermine Civil Society
• The Three Reaffirms: Suggested Agenda for President Obama's Visit to China
• The U.N. Human Rights Council: No Better for Obama's Engagement
Immigration Policy Center
• Essential to the Fight: Immigrants in the Military Eight Years after 9/11
Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)
• Satellite Imagery Narrows Qom (Iran) Enrichment Facility Construction Start Date
Institute for Security Studies
• Policy Brief No 16: Addressing the Challenges of Law Enforcement in Africa, Policing in Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Zambia
• Policy Brief No 17: A Place for Tradition in an Effective Criminal Justice System, Customary Justice in Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Zambia
Institute for the Study of Labor
• Persistence of Civil Wars
International Crisis Group
• Bosnia’s Dual Crisis
• Palestine: Salvaging Fatah
International Organization for Migration
• Assessment of Return to Iraq
International Relations and Security Network
• Baghdad Divided
• Can Greece Lead the Way?
• Europe’s Gas Dilemma
• The Politics of Private Force in the Philippines
• Should C Asia Fear Taliban Spillover?
• Superpower Summitry: Sino-US Relations
Jamestown Foundation
• Terrorism Monitor, v. 7, no. 34, November 13, 2009
span style="font-size:85%;"> o Turkish Navy's Fight Against Piracy in the Gulf of Aden Serves Foreign Policy Goals
o Neo-Zarqawists Target the Arab Christians of Jordan
o The Hunt for Pakistan's Most Wanted Terrorists
o Perspectives on the Future of the Somali Jihad
Lowy Institute
• Problems to Partnership: A Plan for Australia-India Strategic Ties
• Stemming the 'Evil Flowers' [IEDs]
National Bureau of Asian Research
• Pakistani Partnerships with the United States: An Assessment
National Security Archive
• The Taliban Biography: The Structure and Leadership of the Taliban 1996-2002
NATO Defense College
• An Assessment of Crime Related Risks in the Sahel
Pak Institute for Peace Studies
• Pakistan Security Report (October 2009)
• South Asia Conflict Report: October 2009
• Tribal Region Conflict Report (October 19 to October 26 to November 1, 2009)
Peterson Institute for International Economics
• America, Europe, and the New Trade Order
• The Impact of the Financial Crisis on Emerging Asia
Pew Global Attitudes Project
• Americans and Western Europeans Agree on Afghanistan-Pakistan Extremist Threat
Small Wars Journal
• Afghanistan: Seven Fundamental Questions
• A Better Understanding of the Vietnam War
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)
• October 2009 Quarterly Report
Stanley Foundation
• Securing Vulnerable Nuclear Materials: Meeting the Global Challenge
• Sudan and the Implications for Responsibility to Protect
Stimson Center
• Islam and Politics: Renewal and Resistance in the Muslim World
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
• China’s Expanding Role in Peacekeeping: Prospects and Policy Implications
US Coast Guard (USCG)
• Revised Catastrophic Incident Search and Rescue Addendum to the National Search and Rescue Supplement
US Institute of Peace (USIP)
• The Current Status of Religious Coexistence and Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Lebanon's Unstable Equilibrium
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Iran and Hizballah: Significance of the Francop Interception
• Small War or Big Problem? Fighting on the Yemeni-Saudi Border
• Stuck in Neutral? Diagnosing the Impasse in the Middle East Peace Process
• A Victory for Islamism? The Second Lebanon War and Its Repercussions
World Bank
• Country Aggregate Reports
World Public Opinion.org
• Images of China and the United States Around the World
• Wide Dissatisfaction with Capitalism -- Twenty Years after Fall of Berlin Wall
Worldwatch Institute
• Vital Signs Online
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Friday's Miscellany 11-06-2009
Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)
· VOTING TOGETHER: Why Afghanistan’s 2009 Elections were (and were not) a Disaster [talks about the August elections]
Association of the United States Army (AUSA)
· The Kurdish Question
Atlantic Council
· Common Sense and COIN in Afghanistan
· US-EU Cooperation Toward Smart Grid Deployment
Belfer Center
· Afghans on the Taliban
· Beyond Optimism and Pessimism: The Differential Effects of Nuclear Proliferation
· Climate Finance
Bonn International Center for Conversion
· The Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan: Role Model for Civil-Military Relations?
Brookings Institution
· The Opportunity of the Obama Era: Can Civil Society Help Bridge Divides between the United States and a Diverse Muslim World?
· A Revolution Once More: Unmanned Systems and the Middle East
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
· Five Alternatives that Make More Sense than Offshore Oil
· The Impact of the Doha Round on Kenya
· The United States and India 3.0
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
· After Guantanamo: The Way Forward
Center for American Progress
· China’s New Engagement in the International System: In the Ring, but Punching Below its Weight
· Cooperation Is the Key: Proposal for U.S.-China Collaboration on Climate Technology
Center for Immigration Studies
· The 287(g) Program: Protecting Home Towns and Homeland
Center for Security Policy
· Obama Doctrine 'Coup'
Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
· The Afghan Decision: The Defining Test of Obama's Leadership
· Afghan National Security Forces: Shaping Host Country Forces as Part of Armed Nation Building
· DIIG Current Issues No. 16: Wrestling with Complexity in Defense Programs
· DIIG Current Issues No. 17: Contracting for Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan
· Issues & Insights, November 2009, v. 9, no. 20
o Challenges that could Disrupt the Sino-American Relations
o Stability of the Sino-U.S. Relationship
o Achieving Stability in Sino-American Nuclear Affairs
o Future Crisis in the U.S.-China Relationship
Central Asia-Caucasus Institute (CACI)
· Central Asia-Caucasus (CACI) Analyst, v. 11, no. 20, 28 October 2009
o Managed Versus Electoral Political Change: Lessons from Asia
o Afghanistan: War by Metrics?
o Central Asian Women Migrants Deal with Global Economic Crisis
o Mongolia to Become Central Asia's Mining El Dorado?
Century Foundation
· Soft Targets and Great Games in Afghanistan
Congress. House. Armed Services Committee
· Hearings
o Iraq and Afghanistan: Perspectives on U.S. Strategy, Part II [November 5, 2009]
Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee
· Copenhagen and Beyond: Is There a Successor to the Kyoto Protocol?
Congress. Senate. Judiciary Committee
· The First Line of Defense: Reducing Recidivism at the Local Level
Department of Homeland Security Inspector General
· OIG-10-01 - CBP's Ability to Detect Biological and Chemical Threats in Maritime Cargo Containers (Redacted)
Department of Justice Inspector General
· A Review of the FBI's Involvement in and Observations of Detainee Interrogations in Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan, and Iraq, October 2009 (Revised)
Department of the Navy (DoN)
· Final EIS for West Coast Basing of MV-22 (Osprey)
Diversity Spectrum
· The Aynak Copper Tender: Implications for Afghanistan and the West
European Commission Directorate-General for Research
· A More Research-Intensive and Integrated European Research Area: Science, Technology and Competitiveness Key Figures Report 2008/2009
European Council on Foreign Relations
· Towards a Post-American Europe: A Power Audit of EU-US Relations
European Union Institute for Security Studies
· Chaillot Paper 118: Global Security in a Multipolar World
· The Obama Moment: European and American Perspectives
· What Ambitions for European Defence in 2020?
Federation of American Scientists
· Nuclear Notebook: Pakistani Nuclear Forces, 2009
Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
· What Afghans Want
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· Afghanistan's Security Environment, GAO-10-178R
· Contingency Contracting: Further Improvements Needed in Agency Tracking of Contractor Personnel and Contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan, GAO-10-187
· Defense Infrastructure: The Army Needs to Establish Priorities, Goals, and Performance Measures for Its Arsenal Support Program Initiative, GAO-10-167R
· Defense Logistics: Department of Defense's Annual Report on the Status of Prepositioned Materiel and Equipment Can Be Further Enhanced to Better Inform Congress, GAO-10-172R
· Information Technology: Agencies Need to Improve the Implementation and Use of Earned Value Techniques to Help Manage Major System Acquisitions, GAO-10-2
· Millennium Challenge Corporation: MCC Has Addressed a Number of Implementation Challenges, but Needs to Improve Financial Controls and Infrastructure Planning, GAO-10-52
· Operation Iraqi Freedom: Preliminary Observations on DOD Planning for the Drawdown of U.S. Forces from Iraq, GAO-10-179
· Troubled Asset Relief Program: Continued Stewardship Needed as Treasury Develops Strategies for Monitoring and Divesting Financial Interests in Chrysler and GM, GAO-10-151
Heritage Foundation
· Bomb or Surrender: Not America's Only Options Regarding Iran
· Chemical Security: Separating Risk from Excessive Regulation
· Congress Wisely Acts to Bring Greater Independence to Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review Process
· Copenhagen Consequences: What You Need To Know
· The Pakistan-Britain Terror Connection: Lessons and Warnings for the United States
· Russia's Economic Crisis and U.S.-Russia Relations: Troubled Times Ahead
· Ten Things about China and Climate Change
Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)
· Satellite Imagery Narrows Qom Enrichment Facility Construction Start Date
International Crisis Group
· Shades of Red: China’s Debate over North Korea
· Venezuela: Accelerating the Bolivarian Revolution
International Relations and Security Network
· America Dips Toe in Burmese Waters
· Another Go at India-Pakistan Dialogue
· Bosnian Impasse Over ‘Dayton Two’
· Germany Beyond the Wall
· Remembering the Tak Bai Massacre
· Somaliland Stuck in International Wilderness
· Swine Flu Fears Spread
Jamestown Foundation
· China Brief, v. 9, no. 22, November 4, 2009
o Chongqing’s mafias expose grave woes in China’s legal apparatus
o PLA exercises march toward trans-regional joint training
o China’s 11th Ambassadorial conference signals continuity and change in foreign policy
o Maritime multilateralism: China’s strategy for the Indian ocean
· Terrorism Monitor, v.7, no. 33, November 6, 2009
o Interview with Amir of Jihad in Afghanistan's Balkh Province
o Karzai Claims Mystery Helicopters Ferrying Taliban to North Afghanistan
o Terrorism's Trojan Horse: Vehicle-Borne Suicide Attacks Give Taliban Upper Hand in Pakistan
o Is Iran Supporting the Insurgency in Afghanistan?
Lowry Institute for International Policy
· The Global Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences
· The Gulf States and Iran: Robust Competitors or Interested Bystanders?
Mission Readiness
· Ready, Willing, And Unable To Serve
Mitre Corporation
· Rare Events (catastrophic terrorist events)
National Academies Press
· Technology, Policy, Law, and Ethics Regarding U.S. Acquisition and Use of Cyberattack Capabilities
National Bureau of Asian Research
· China’s Peaceful Development Doctrine: Views from China
· Managing Unmet Expectations in the U.S.-Japan Alliance
National Environmental Protection Agency (NEPA)
· Afghanistan Environment 2008
National Institute of Justice
· Learning from 9/11: Organizational Change in the New York City and Arlington County, Va., Police Departments
National Security Archive
· Afghanistan Déjà vu? Lessons from the Soviet Experience
· Fall of Berlin Wall Caused Anxiety More than Joy at Highest Levels: Secret Documents Show Opposition to German Unification
· Know Thine Enemy: Why The Taliban Cannot Be Flipped
Pacific Research Institute
· Top Ten Energy Myths
Pew Global Attitudes
· Public Opinion Two Decades After the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
· Public Divided Over Afghan Troop Requests, But Still Sees Rationale for War
RAND
· The Day After... in Jerusalem: A Strategic Planning Exercise on the Path to Achieving Peace in the Middle East
· Assessing the Cost-Effectiveness of Modernizing the KC-10 to Meet Global Air Traffic Management Mandates
· RAND's Portfolio Analysis Tool (PAT): Theory, Methods, and Reference Manual
· U.S. Policy in Afghanistan: Basic Questions -- Strategic Choices
Small Wars Journal
· Afghanistan Trip Report
· Crime and Terrorism
Strategic Studies Institute
· A Case Study in Security Sector Reform: Learning from Security Sector Reform/Building in Afghanistan (October 2002-September 2003
· India's Strategic Defense Transformation: Expanding Global Relationships
Transnational Institute
· Repairing the Weakest Links: A New Agenda for Fragile States
· The World Crisis - and Beyond
Transportation Research Board
· How Proposed ARFF Standards Would Impact Airports (ARFF - Airport Rescue and Fire Fighting)
UK House of Commons: Defence Committee
· Russia: A New Confrontation?
US Institute of Peace (USIP)
· Conflict-Business Dynamics in the Democratic Republic of Congo
· Guiding Principles for Stabilization and Reconstruction
· Looking for Justice: Liberian Experiences with and Perceptions of Local Justice Options
US Treasury Department
· U.S. Portfolio Holdings of Foreign Securities at End-Year 2008 Source
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
· Iran's Nuclear Program: Deciphering Israel's Signals
· Iranian Missiles and U.S. Missile Defense
World Public Opinion.org
· People in 17 of 21 Nations Say Governments Should Put International Law Ahead of National Interest
· VOTING TOGETHER: Why Afghanistan’s 2009 Elections were (and were not) a Disaster [talks about the August elections]
Association of the United States Army (AUSA)
· The Kurdish Question
Atlantic Council
· Common Sense and COIN in Afghanistan
· US-EU Cooperation Toward Smart Grid Deployment
Belfer Center
· Afghans on the Taliban
· Beyond Optimism and Pessimism: The Differential Effects of Nuclear Proliferation
· Climate Finance
Bonn International Center for Conversion
· The Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan: Role Model for Civil-Military Relations?
Brookings Institution
· The Opportunity of the Obama Era: Can Civil Society Help Bridge Divides between the United States and a Diverse Muslim World?
· A Revolution Once More: Unmanned Systems and the Middle East
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
· Five Alternatives that Make More Sense than Offshore Oil
· The Impact of the Doha Round on Kenya
· The United States and India 3.0
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
· After Guantanamo: The Way Forward
Center for American Progress
· China’s New Engagement in the International System: In the Ring, but Punching Below its Weight
· Cooperation Is the Key: Proposal for U.S.-China Collaboration on Climate Technology
Center for Immigration Studies
· The 287(g) Program: Protecting Home Towns and Homeland
Center for Security Policy
· Obama Doctrine 'Coup'
Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
· The Afghan Decision: The Defining Test of Obama's Leadership
· Afghan National Security Forces: Shaping Host Country Forces as Part of Armed Nation Building
· DIIG Current Issues No. 16: Wrestling with Complexity in Defense Programs
· DIIG Current Issues No. 17: Contracting for Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan
· Issues & Insights, November 2009, v. 9, no. 20
o Challenges that could Disrupt the Sino-American Relations
o Stability of the Sino-U.S. Relationship
o Achieving Stability in Sino-American Nuclear Affairs
o Future Crisis in the U.S.-China Relationship
Central Asia-Caucasus Institute (CACI)
· Central Asia-Caucasus (CACI) Analyst, v. 11, no. 20, 28 October 2009
o Managed Versus Electoral Political Change: Lessons from Asia
o Afghanistan: War by Metrics?
o Central Asian Women Migrants Deal with Global Economic Crisis
o Mongolia to Become Central Asia's Mining El Dorado?
Century Foundation
· Soft Targets and Great Games in Afghanistan
Congress. House. Armed Services Committee
· Hearings
o Iraq and Afghanistan: Perspectives on U.S. Strategy, Part II [November 5, 2009]
Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee
· Copenhagen and Beyond: Is There a Successor to the Kyoto Protocol?
Congress. Senate. Judiciary Committee
· The First Line of Defense: Reducing Recidivism at the Local Level
Department of Homeland Security Inspector General
· OIG-10-01 - CBP's Ability to Detect Biological and Chemical Threats in Maritime Cargo Containers (Redacted)
Department of Justice Inspector General
· A Review of the FBI's Involvement in and Observations of Detainee Interrogations in Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan, and Iraq, October 2009 (Revised)
Department of the Navy (DoN)
· Final EIS for West Coast Basing of MV-22 (Osprey)
Diversity Spectrum
· The Aynak Copper Tender: Implications for Afghanistan and the West
European Commission Directorate-General for Research
· A More Research-Intensive and Integrated European Research Area: Science, Technology and Competitiveness Key Figures Report 2008/2009
European Council on Foreign Relations
· Towards a Post-American Europe: A Power Audit of EU-US Relations
European Union Institute for Security Studies
· Chaillot Paper 118: Global Security in a Multipolar World
· The Obama Moment: European and American Perspectives
· What Ambitions for European Defence in 2020?
Federation of American Scientists
· Nuclear Notebook: Pakistani Nuclear Forces, 2009
Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
· What Afghans Want
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· Afghanistan's Security Environment, GAO-10-178R
· Contingency Contracting: Further Improvements Needed in Agency Tracking of Contractor Personnel and Contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan, GAO-10-187
· Defense Infrastructure: The Army Needs to Establish Priorities, Goals, and Performance Measures for Its Arsenal Support Program Initiative, GAO-10-167R
· Defense Logistics: Department of Defense's Annual Report on the Status of Prepositioned Materiel and Equipment Can Be Further Enhanced to Better Inform Congress, GAO-10-172R
· Information Technology: Agencies Need to Improve the Implementation and Use of Earned Value Techniques to Help Manage Major System Acquisitions, GAO-10-2
· Millennium Challenge Corporation: MCC Has Addressed a Number of Implementation Challenges, but Needs to Improve Financial Controls and Infrastructure Planning, GAO-10-52
· Operation Iraqi Freedom: Preliminary Observations on DOD Planning for the Drawdown of U.S. Forces from Iraq, GAO-10-179
· Troubled Asset Relief Program: Continued Stewardship Needed as Treasury Develops Strategies for Monitoring and Divesting Financial Interests in Chrysler and GM, GAO-10-151
Heritage Foundation
· Bomb or Surrender: Not America's Only Options Regarding Iran
· Chemical Security: Separating Risk from Excessive Regulation
· Congress Wisely Acts to Bring Greater Independence to Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review Process
· Copenhagen Consequences: What You Need To Know
· The Pakistan-Britain Terror Connection: Lessons and Warnings for the United States
· Russia's Economic Crisis and U.S.-Russia Relations: Troubled Times Ahead
· Ten Things about China and Climate Change
Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)
· Satellite Imagery Narrows Qom Enrichment Facility Construction Start Date
International Crisis Group
· Shades of Red: China’s Debate over North Korea
· Venezuela: Accelerating the Bolivarian Revolution
International Relations and Security Network
· America Dips Toe in Burmese Waters
· Another Go at India-Pakistan Dialogue
· Bosnian Impasse Over ‘Dayton Two’
· Germany Beyond the Wall
· Remembering the Tak Bai Massacre
· Somaliland Stuck in International Wilderness
· Swine Flu Fears Spread
Jamestown Foundation
· China Brief, v. 9, no. 22, November 4, 2009
o Chongqing’s mafias expose grave woes in China’s legal apparatus
o PLA exercises march toward trans-regional joint training
o China’s 11th Ambassadorial conference signals continuity and change in foreign policy
o Maritime multilateralism: China’s strategy for the Indian ocean
· Terrorism Monitor, v.7, no. 33, November 6, 2009
o Interview with Amir of Jihad in Afghanistan's Balkh Province
o Karzai Claims Mystery Helicopters Ferrying Taliban to North Afghanistan
o Terrorism's Trojan Horse: Vehicle-Borne Suicide Attacks Give Taliban Upper Hand in Pakistan
o Is Iran Supporting the Insurgency in Afghanistan?
Lowry Institute for International Policy
· The Global Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences
· The Gulf States and Iran: Robust Competitors or Interested Bystanders?
Mission Readiness
· Ready, Willing, And Unable To Serve
Mitre Corporation
· Rare Events (catastrophic terrorist events)
National Academies Press
· Technology, Policy, Law, and Ethics Regarding U.S. Acquisition and Use of Cyberattack Capabilities
National Bureau of Asian Research
· China’s Peaceful Development Doctrine: Views from China
· Managing Unmet Expectations in the U.S.-Japan Alliance
National Environmental Protection Agency (NEPA)
· Afghanistan Environment 2008
National Institute of Justice
· Learning from 9/11: Organizational Change in the New York City and Arlington County, Va., Police Departments
National Security Archive
· Afghanistan Déjà vu? Lessons from the Soviet Experience
· Fall of Berlin Wall Caused Anxiety More than Joy at Highest Levels: Secret Documents Show Opposition to German Unification
· Know Thine Enemy: Why The Taliban Cannot Be Flipped
Pacific Research Institute
· Top Ten Energy Myths
Pew Global Attitudes
· Public Opinion Two Decades After the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
· Public Divided Over Afghan Troop Requests, But Still Sees Rationale for War
RAND
· The Day After... in Jerusalem: A Strategic Planning Exercise on the Path to Achieving Peace in the Middle East
· Assessing the Cost-Effectiveness of Modernizing the KC-10 to Meet Global Air Traffic Management Mandates
· RAND's Portfolio Analysis Tool (PAT): Theory, Methods, and Reference Manual
· U.S. Policy in Afghanistan: Basic Questions -- Strategic Choices
Small Wars Journal
· Afghanistan Trip Report
· Crime and Terrorism
Strategic Studies Institute
· A Case Study in Security Sector Reform: Learning from Security Sector Reform/Building in Afghanistan (October 2002-September 2003
· India's Strategic Defense Transformation: Expanding Global Relationships
Transnational Institute
· Repairing the Weakest Links: A New Agenda for Fragile States
· The World Crisis - and Beyond
Transportation Research Board
· How Proposed ARFF Standards Would Impact Airports (ARFF - Airport Rescue and Fire Fighting)
UK House of Commons: Defence Committee
· Russia: A New Confrontation?
US Institute of Peace (USIP)
· Conflict-Business Dynamics in the Democratic Republic of Congo
· Guiding Principles for Stabilization and Reconstruction
· Looking for Justice: Liberian Experiences with and Perceptions of Local Justice Options
US Treasury Department
· U.S. Portfolio Holdings of Foreign Securities at End-Year 2008 Source
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
· Iran's Nuclear Program: Deciphering Israel's Signals
· Iranian Missiles and U.S. Missile Defense
World Public Opinion.org
· People in 17 of 21 Nations Say Governments Should Put International Law Ahead of National Interest
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