Friday's Miscellany 03-05-2010

Air Force Space Command (AFSPC)
• High Frontier Journal, February 2010, v. 6, no. 2
o Military International Space Cooperation
o Coalition Space Operations – A NATO Perspective
o Improving Space Security through Enhanced International Cooperation
o The Imperative of Space Cooperation in an Environment of Distrust: Working With China
o How International Collaboration is Improving Space Situational Awareness
o NASA, Exploring the Boundaries of International Cooperation
o Opening Up the Aperture
o Steps Towards International Space Situational Awareness
o Are We Experiencing a Global Navigation Satellite System Insurgency?
o Legal Considerations of International Space Operations
o Shaping the Future with a New Space Power: Now is the Time
o The Rise of India as a Space Power
o Mission Assurance Capability for Access to Space
o Commercial Operators Partnering with the Military to Meet Global Bandwidth Demands
o Spacefarers and Satellite Operators: A Proliferation of Countries, Organizations, and Companies, 1957–2009

Air University
• Strategic Studies Quarterly, Spring 2010, v. 4, no. 1
o The Illogic of the Biological Weapons Taboo
o The Art of Military Discovery: Chinese Air and Space Power Implications for the USAF
o Cyber Vision and Cyber Force Development
o Remembrance of Things Past: The Enduring Value of Nuclear Weapons
o Exploring the Security Dimension of Sino--US Trade Asymmetry: Implications for the International Trade System
o Security Assistance, Surrogate Armies, and the Pursuit of US Interests in Sub-Saharan Africa

American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)
• A Nation of Joiners: Sports Clubs in Germany

Association of the United States Army (AUSA)
• The Army Management Enterprise

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)
• Special Report Issue 28 – Here to Help: Strengthening the Defence Role in Australian Disaster Management

British American Security Information Council (BASIC)
• Sensitive Rationalization or Overlooked Expansion? Demystifying the Obama Plan for Missile Defense in Europe

Brookings Institution
• Afghanistan Index : Tracking Progress and Security in Post-9/11 Afghanistan [updated February 28, 2010]
o Archive
• How We're Doing in the World
• Iraq: An Elections Preview
• Iraq Index - Tracking Reconstruction and Security in Post-Sadddam Iraq [updated February 26, 2010]
o Archives
• Natural Disasters, National Diligence: The Chilean Earthquake in Perspective
• Pakistan Index - Tracking Variables of Reconstruction and Security in Pakistan [updated March 5, 2010]
o Archives

Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)
• Whatever Happened to Peacekeeping? The Future of a Tradition

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Overmanaged Democracy in Russia: Governance Implications of Hybrid Regimes

CATO Institute
• Nuclear Proliferation Update, February 2010

Center for American Progress
• Iraqis Take Back Their Country: Iraq’s 2010 Elections as U.S. Policy Transitions

Center for Nonproliferation Studies
• Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Briefing Book 2010

Center for Security Studies (CSS)
• CSS Analysis No. 69 - European Energy: The ‘Solidarity’ Conundrum
• CSS Analysis No. 70 - Yemen: Challenges of Counterterrorism

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)
• Littoral Combat Ship: An Examination of its Possible Concepts of Operation

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
• Cyber Events Since 2006
• Defense Department PAS Positions [updated March 2, 2010]
• Past Failures and Future Transitions in Iraqi Reconstruction
• Russia-Europe Energy Relations
• Shape, Clear, Hold, and Build: The Full Metrics of the Afghan War
• A U.S. Strategy for ASEAN

Centre for International Governance Innovation
• Ending the Agony: Seven Moves to Stabilize Afghanistan

The Century Foundation
• Russia’s Policy in the Middle East: Prospects for Consensus and Conflict in the Middle East

Chatham House
• The ‘Marco Polo’ Effect: Chinese FDI in Italy
• World Today, March 2010, 66, no. 3
o China, Iran and the United States: Best Friends with Beijing
o Extended Nuclear Deterrence: Under the Umbrella
o World Oil Trade: New Oil Axis
o Prospects for Oil Prices: Up and Down
o Guinea: Bought by Beijing
o Zimbabwe: Turning Thirty
o Health Security and Animal Disease: Hooves and Humans
o Turkey: Moving East or West?
o Greece and the Euro: Get a Sin Bin
o Iraq: No End in Sight

Combat Terrorism Center (CTC)
• CTC Sentinel, February 2010, v. 3, no. 2
o A Beacon for Extremists: The Ansar al-Mujahideen Web Forum By Evan Kohlmann
o Al-Qa`ida and Hamas: The Limits of Salafi-Jihadi Pragmatism By Mary Habeck
o Lebanon at Risk from Salafi-Jihadi Terrorist Cells By Bilal Y. Saab
o The Changing Scene in Londonistan By Raffaello Pantucci
o Political Islam in Central Asia: The Role of Hizb al-Tahrir By Emmanuel Karagiannis
o How Terrorist Groups End By Leonard Weinberg and Arie Perliger
• The Failure of Jihad in Saudi Arabia [occasional paper]

Combined Arms Center Blog
• Isolating the Critical Element Necessary to Achieve Success in a Population Focused Counterinsurgency Environment: Close Personal Relationships by MAJ Nathan Springer

Congress. House. Armed Services Committee
• Hearings
o Review of the Department of Defense Process for Assessing the Requirements to Implement Repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” [March 3, 2010]

Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee
• Regional Overview of East Asia and the Pacific
• Restoring America’s Reputation in the World: Why it Matters

Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee
• The Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate

Congress. Senate. Armed Services Committee
• Policies, Procedures, and Practices Relating to the Transfer of Detainees held at the Guantanamo Detention Facility
• Protective Forces at the Department of Energy

Congress. Senate. Commerce, Science & Technology Committee
• Toyota's Recalls and the Government's Response

Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee
• Middle East Peace: Ground Truths, Challenges Ahead

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Government Affairs
• Chemical Security: Assessing Progress and Charting a Path Forward
• The Next Big Disaster: Is the Private Sector Prepared?

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
• The Future of NATO

Department of Defense
• Terms of Reference (TOR) for the Review of the Policy on Homosexuality in the Armed Forces

Department of State
• 2010 International Narcotics Control Strategy
• Volume I: Drug and Chemical Control
• Volume II: Money Laundering and Financial Crimes
• Previous reports
• Afghanistan and Pakistan Regional Stabilization Strategy (Updated Feb 2010)

Department of the Army
• TRADOC Pamphlet 525-7-8 - Cyberspace Operations Concept Capability Plan 2016-2028

Department of the Treasury
• Treasury International Capital System
• Preliminary Report on the survey of Foreign Portfolio Holdings of U.S. Securities at End-June 2009

Dubai Press Club
• Arab Media Outlook, 2009-2013: Inspiring Local Content

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
• Conversions of Selected Employees from Political to Career Positions at Departments and Selected Agencies, GAO-10-356R
• Cybersecurity: Progress Made but Challenges Remain in Defining and Coordinating the Comprehensive National Initiative, GAO-10-338
• Emergency Communications: Establishment of the Emergency Communications Preparedness Center and Related Interagency Coordination Challenges, GAO-10-463R
• The Federal Government's Long-Term Fiscal Outlook: January 2010 Update, GAO-10-468SP
• Iran Sanctions: Complete and Timely Licensing Data Needed to Strengthen Enforcement of Export Restrictions, GAO-10-375
• Warfighter Support: A Cost Comparison of Using State Department Employees versus Contractors for Security Services in Iraq, GAO-10-266R

Heritage Foundation
• The 2009 Index of Dependence on Government
• Charting U.S. Policy After Iraq's Elections
• Chinese Outward Investment: Better Information Required (Testimony)
• Electromagnetic Pulse Weapons: Congress Must Understand the Risk
• The FY 2011 Homeland Security Budget: Spending Doesn’t Match the Missions
• Iran, Democracy, and Trade Keys to Successful Clinton Visit to Latin America
• The Iranian Regime: What You Need to Know
• Meeting Taiwan’s Self-Defense Needs
• President Obama Must Not Remove Nuclear Weapons from Europe
• Ten Steps to a Free Iran
• U.S.-Indonesia Relations: Build for Endurance, Not Speed

Human Rights Watch
• Fast-Tracked Unfairness: Detention and Denial of Women Asylum Seekers in the UK
• From the Tiger to the Crocodile: Abuse of Migrant Workers in Thailand

Immigration Policy Center
• DHS Progress Report: The Challenge of Reform

Institute for National Strategic Studies
• Strategic Forum 253 - Strengthening the IAEA: How the Nuclear Watchdog Can Regain Its Bark

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)
• Supplement to Iran’s Gas Centrifuge Program: Taking Stock

Institute for the Study of Violent Groups (ISVG)
• Website
• Extremist Groups
• Hotspots of Violent Extremism in the United States
• ISVG Database
• Publications
• Terrorism Library Search

Institute for the Study of War
• Iraq on the Eve of Elections
• Operation Moshtarak: Taking and Holding Marjah

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
• Democracy and Human Rights in Venezuela
• Honduras: Human Rights and the Coup D’Etat

International Crisis Group
• CrisisWatch February 2010
• The Threat from Jamaat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh
• Zimbabwe: Political and Security Challenges to the Transition

International Relations and Security Network
• Burma Saves Its Tigers and Not Its Women
• Costs of War: Ugly Politics
• Kabul in Crisis over Media Restrictions
• Turkey at the Crossroads

International Security Assistance Force-Afghanistan (ISAF)
• COIN Common Sense February 2010, v. 1, no. 1

Jamestown Foundation
• China Brief, v. 10, no. 5, March 5, 2010
o Beijing Seeks Paradigm Shift in Geopolitics
o The Role of U.S. Arms Sales in Taiwan's Defense Transformation
o Will China Join the Iran-Pakistan-India Pipeline?
o Military Cooperation between China and Central Asia: Breakthrough, Limits, and Prospects
• Terrorism Monitor, v. 8, no. 9, March 5, 2010
o Kata'ib Hezbollah and the Intricate Web of Iranian Military Involvement in Iraq
o Signs of Growing Islamist Insurgency Create Apprehension in Thailand
o An Assessment of the Anatomy of al-Qaeda in Yemen: Ideological and Social Factors

Karen Women Organization
• Walking Amongst Sharp Knives: The Unsung Courage of Karen Women Village Chiefs in Conflict areas of Eastern Burma

Lowry Institute
• China Reform

National Academies Press
• Private-Public Sector Collaboration to Enhance Community Disaster Resilience: A Workshop Report [free download but registration required]

National Defense University
• Joint Force Quarterly (JFQ), 2nd Qrt, April 2010, no. 57
o The Accidental Strategist
o Community Defense in Afghanistan
o Educate to Cooperate: Leveraging the New Definition of "Joint" to Build Partnering Capacity
o Unintended Strategic Consequences of Security Assistance in the South Caucasus
o DOD's Energy Challenge as Strategic Opportunity
o Battlefield Renewable Energy: A Key Joint Force Enabler
o Turning Fallujah
o Leverage Points for the War on Terror: The Iraq Experience and Domino Theory Revisited
o Understanding OPCON
o Unmanned Aircraft Systems: The Moral and Legal Case
o Burgeoning Courses, Laggin Standardization
o Bioterror in the Age of Biotechnology
o Evolving Technological Strategy in Advanced Air Defense Systems
o Post-START, Re-START, and New Start: Defogging Russian-American Strategic Nuclear Arms Control
o Russia's Arctic Strategy: Ambitions and Constraints
o India and the Balance of Power in the Asia-Pacific
o The Department of Treasury: Ensuring Prosperity and Security
o Military History and the Study of Operational Art
o Developing a Common Understanding of Unconventional Warfare
o Operational Commander's Intent

• Prism, March 2010, v. 1, no. 2
o Security Is More Than "20" Percent
o Adjusting to Stabilization and Reconstruction Operations
o Leaving the Civilians Behind: The "Soldier-Diplomat" in Afghanistan and Iraq
o Organized Crime in Iraq: Strategic Surprise and Lessons for Future Contingencies
o Forging a U.S. Policy Toward Fragile States
o State Fragility as a Wicked Problem
o Lessons from Liberia's Success: Thoughts on Leadership, the Process of Peace, Security, and Justice
o Complex Operations in Weak and Failing States: The Sudan Rebel Prospective
o Not in Our Image: The Challenges of Effective Peace-building
o Building a Civilian Lessons Learned System

NATO Defense College
• Piracy – Threat or Nuisance?

New America Foundation
• Lashkar-e-Taiba in Perspective: An Evolving Threat

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
• NCR Summary of Performance and Financial Information FY 2009

RAND
• Ending F-22A Production: Costs and Industrial Base Implications of Alternative Options

Small Wars Journal
• Addressing the Zawahirist Outsurgency
• Implementing a Population-Centric Counterinsurgency Strategy
• The Tribal Path – A Better Alternative?

Henry L. Stimson Center
• Pharmaceutical Terror: Getting Health Care Reform Right

Strategic Studies Institute
• Transnational Insurgencies and the Escalation of Regional Conflict: Lessons for Iraq and Afghanistan

UK House of Commons Defence
• Defence Equipment 2010

US Institute of Peace (USIP)
• Health Initiatives and Counterinsurgency Strategy in Afghanistan

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• After the Elections: Prospects for Democratic Consolidation in Iraq
• Closing Loopholes: Another Vital Aspect of Sanctions on Iran
• The Missing Lever: Information Activities against Iran

White House. National Security Council
• Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI)- declassified summary
• Transcript and Speech Video