Friday's Miscellany 03-26-2010

Air University
• Air & Space Power Journal, Spring 2010, v. 24, no. 1
o The United States Air Force Expeditionary Center: Airpower from the Ground Up
o The Combined Air Power Transition Force: Building Airpower for Afghanistan
o China’s Perspective on Nuclear Deterrence
o Global Dynamic Operations: Allocation of Remotely Piloted Aircraft among Combatant Commands
o Cyber This, Cyber That . . . So What?
o Improving Cost-Effectiveness in the Department of Defense
o Achieving a Cost-Effective Balance in the Department of Defense: Concurrent and Proportional Recapitalization of the Air National Guard
o A Cyber Proving Ground: The Search for Cyber Genius
o The Resurgence of Russian Interests in Central Asia
o P-51 Escorts: Legend or Myth?

Army Office of Business Transformation
• 2010 Army Report to Congress on Business Transformation

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)
• Strait Thinking: China-Taiwan Relations Under Ma Ying-Jeou

Brookings
• Afghanistan Index: Tracking Progress and Security in Post-9/11 Afghanistan [updated March 22, 2010]
o Archive
• Broken Politics
• Comments on FEMA's National Disaster Recovery Framework
• Natural Disasters, Conflict, and Human Rights: Tracing the Connections
• Pakistan’s War of Choice
• Presumed Innocent? Representing Guantánamo Detainees

Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)
• The Newly Emerging Arctic Security Environment
• POLL - The Future of the Canadian Military in Afghanistan
• Security in an Uncertain World: A Canadian Perspective on NATO's New Strategic Concept

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP)
• The Political Challenge of Yemen’s Southern Movement
• Key events in South Yemen’s history
o Key names and organizations
o Map
• Sustaining Social Safety Nets: Critical for Economic Recovery

CATO Institute
• Appreciate This: Chinese Currency Rise Will Have a Negligible Effect on the Trade Deficit
• Nuclear Proliferation Update, March 2010
o Why China and Russia balk at sanctions against North Korea and Iran
o Nuclear weapons spending and the future of the arsenal

Center for American Progress
• The Costs of Mass Deportation: Impractical, Expensive, and Ineffective
• Implementing the Repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in the U.S. Armed Forces
• Progress in Pakistan: A National Security Briefing Memo
• What Is Non-Defense Discretionary Spending?: An Interactive Look at the Federal Budget

Center for Global Development
• The U.S. Aid “Surge” to Pakistan: Repeating a Failed Experiment? Lessons for U.S. Policymakers from the World Bank’s Social-Sector Lending in the 1990s

Center for Non-Proliferation Studies (CNS)
• Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Resources [great website with regularly updated information]

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
• Electrical Grid as a Target for Cyber Attack
• From the Ferghana Valley to South Waziristan: The Evolving Threat of Central Asian Jihadists
• Options in Dealing with Iran's Nuclear Program

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
• Iraq's New Reality
• CIGI-Stimson Iraq Report 1 - The Impact of Conflict on Minorities, Refugees, and the Internally Displaced
• CIGI-Stimson Iraq Report 2 - Ensuring Security and Setting The National Security Agenda
• CIGI-Stimson Iraq Report 3 - The Politics of Governance and Federalism
• CIGI-Stimson Iraq Report 4 - Finding its Role in the Middle East

Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)
• The Failure of Jihad in Saudi Arabia

Congress. House. Armed Services Committee
• Hearings
o Fiscal Year 2011 National Defense Authorization Budget Request for Department of Energy Atomic Energy Defense Activities. [March 25, 2010]
o Fiscal Year 2011 National Defense Authorization Budget Requests from the U.S. Pacific Command and U.S. Forces Korea. [March 25, 2010]
o Department of the Navy and Air Force Combat Aviation Programs. [March 24, 2010]
o Fiscal Year 2011 National Defense Authorization Budget Request for Department of Defense’s Science and Technology Programs. [March 23, 2010]
o Interagency Coordination of Grants and Contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan: Progress, Obstacles, and Plans. [March 23, 2010]
o Military Associations’ Legislative Priorities. [March 23, 2010]

Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee
• An Overview of U.S. Policy in Africa

Congress. House. Homeland Security Affairs Committee
• Visa Overstays: Can They be Eliminated?

Congress. Senate. Armed Service Committee
• Military Health System Programs, Policies, and Initiatives in Review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2011 and the Future Years Defense Program.
• U.S. Pacific Command, U.S. Strategic Command, and U.S. Forces Korea in Review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2011 and the Future Years Defense Program.

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security and Government Affairs
• Removing the Shroud of Secrecy: Making Government More Transparent and Accountable

Congress. Senate. Veteran's Affairs
• VA's Plan for Ending Homelessness among Veterans

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
• An Analysis of the President's Budgetary Proposals for Fiscal Year 2011
• Direct Spending and Defense Programs (Testimony)
• Federal Climate Change Programs: Funding History and Policy Issues

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
• Holding Pakistan: The Second Phase of Pakistan's Counterinsurgency Operations
• Pakistan's Shrewd Shift in Dialogue
• The Strategic Arms Treaty's Promise

Department of Defense (DOD)
• Department of Defense Instruction (DODI) 1332.14 Enlisted Administrative Separations 8. Homosexual Conduct
• Department of Defense Instruction (DODI) 1332.30 Separation of Regular and Reserve Commissioned Officers Homosexual Conduct
• Summary of Changes Revisions to the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” regulations

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)
• D-2010-047 Repair and Maintenance Contracts for Aircraft Supporting Coalition Forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Kuwait

East-West Center
• Political Attitudes under Repression: Evidence from North Korean Refugees

Energy Information Administration (EIA)
• Country Analysis Brief: Columbia
• Country Analysis Brief: Venezuela

G8 Research Group
• 2009 L’Aquila G8 Summit Interim Compliance Report: 11 July 2009 to 22 February 2010

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
• Bureau of the Public Debt: Areas for Improvement in Information Security Controls, GAO-10-517R
• Defense Acquisitions: DOD Could Achieve Greater Commonality and Efficiencies among Its Unmanned Aircraft Systems, GAO-10-508T [testimony]
• Energy Star Program: Covert Testing Shows the Energy Star Program Certification Process Is Vulnerable to Fraud and Abuse, GAO-10-470
• Federal User Fees: Fee Design Characteristics and Trade-Offs Illustrated by USCIS's Immigration and Naturalization Fees, GAO-10-560T [testimony]
• Information Security: Concerted Response Needed to Resolve Persistent Weaknesses, GAO-10-536T [Testimony]
• Iraq and Afghanistan: Agencies Face Challenges in Tracking Contracts, Grants, Cooperative Agreements, and Associated, GAO-10-509T [Testimony]
• Joint Strike Fighter: Significant Challenges and Decisions Ahead, GAO-10-478T [Testimony]
• Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Comprehensive Planning and a Results-Oriented Training Strategy Are Needed to Support Growing Inventories, GAO-10-331

Heritage Foundation
• How the EU’s Lisbon Treaty Affects US National Security
• Now is the Time to Seek Ratification of the US – Australia Defense Trade Cooperation Treaty
• Politics of Well-Known Japanese “Secrets” Risk American Nuclear Umbrella
• Public Diplomacy and Strategic Communications Review: Key Issues for Congressional Oversight
• Time for an EMP Recognition Day
• Time to Stop the Rush for “Amnesty” Immigration Reform

Human Rights Watch
• A Larger Prison: Repression of Former Political Prisoners in Tunisia
• Mob Justice in Burundi: Official Complicity and Impunity
• “One Hundred Ways of Putting Pressure”: Violations of Freedom of Expression and Association in Ehtiopia
• Trail of Death: LRA Atrocities in Northeastern Congo

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)
• The Leybold Charter: Putting Non-Proliferation Above Commercial Interests
• Pakistan Government Seeks to Investigate A.Q. Khan’s Activities
• Steam Emitted from Second Khushab Reactor Cooling Towers; Pakistan May Be Operating Second Reactor

Institute for the Study of War
• Fact Sheet: Iraq’s Preliminary Elections Results (25 MAR 2010 Update)

International Crisis Group
• Libya/Chad: Beyond Political Influence

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• Germany: Detailed Assessment Report on Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism
• Germany: Report on Observance of Standards and Codes-FATF Recommendations for Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism
• Islamic Republic of Iran: Selected Issues Paper

International Relations and Security Network
• Blackwater-Linked Airline Serves Central Asia
• Costs of War: Too Late for Two States?
• Europe’s Gas: Careful What You Wish For
• Globalization in the Age of Terror
• Hizbollah: Governance Under Arms
• Intel Brief: Leverage Over Lukashenko
• Israel Mulls Going Nuclear, Again
• Prime Time for Pakistan's Military
• Reinforcing NATO’s Identity
• Rethinking Environmental (In)Security
• Shaky Ground in Guinea
• UN Council Targets Swiss Anti-Minaret Vote

Jamestown Foundation
• Terrorism Monitor, v. 8, no. 12, March 26, 2010
o Northern Nigeria's Boko Haram Movement: Dead or Resurrected?
o Salafi-Jihadis in Mauritania at the Center of al-Qaeda's Strategy
o Kurdish-Arab Tensions and Irbil-Baghdad Relations

Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense
• Chem-Bio Defense Quarterly Magazine CBMS Special Edition 2010
o The Chemical Biological Medical Systems: Countering Current and Emerging CBRN Threats
o Time-Temperature Indicators: Increasing Warfighting Confidence Decreasing Medical Logistics Load
o Partnering to Meet Warfighter Needs

Lexington Institute
• Countering The Asymmetric Threat From Sea Mines
• European Aircraft Subsidies: A Study Of Unfair Trade Practices

Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies
• Organized Crime in Iraq: Strategic Surprise and Lessons for Future Contingencies

Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI)
• Handbook of Emergency Management for State-Level Transportation Agencies

Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC)
• Data on Post-9/11 Terrorism in the United States

National Academies Press
• Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Selected Airborne Chemicals: Volume 8 [free download but registration required]
• Medical Surge Capacity: Workshop Summary [free download but registration required]

National Defense University Library
• Weapons of Mass Destruction Military Policy Awareness Link (MiPAL)

National Strategy Information Center
• Adapting America's Security Paradigm and Security Agenda

Naval War College
• Naval War College Review, Spring 2010, v.63, no. 2
o The Emerging Republic of Korea Navy: A Japanese Perspective
o Arctic Security Considerations and the U.S. Navy's Roadmap for the Arctic
o The U.S. Navy's Transition to Jets
o Pieces of Eight: An Appraisal of U.S. Counterpiracy Options in the Horn of Africa
o China's Oil Security Pipe Dream: The Reality, and Strategic Consequences, of Seaborne Imports
o Formal Mentoring in the U.S. Military: Research Evidence, Lingering Questions, and Recommendations
o Reflecting on Fuchida, or "A Tale of Three Whoppers" (essay)
o Israel: A Revolutionary Miracle in Palestine (review essay)

Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)
• The Politics of the Comprehensive Approach: The Military, Humanitarian and State-building Discourses in Afghanistan

Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre
• Afghanistan’s Religious Landscape: Politicising the Sacred

Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency
• Narcotics and Pakistan

RAND
• Diversity of Service Academy Entrants and Graduates
• A Funding Allocation Methodology for War Reserve Secondary Items
• Japanese Science and Technology Capacity: Expert Opinions and Recommendations

Real Instituto Elcano
• Radicalisation in the Diaspora: Why Muslims in the West Attack Their Host Countries

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)
• NATO’s Tactical Nuclear Dilemma

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Asian Regionalism and US Policy: The Case for Creative Adaptation

Small Wars Journal
• Dispatch: Battle for Kandahar (Part I)
• Dispatch: Scent of Weakness
• Getting it Right: What the 34-day War Has to Teach the US Army
• Lessons From a Military Humanitarian in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
• Moving Artillery Forward: A Concept for the Fight in Afghanistan
• A Strategic Perspective on Taliban Warfare
• Warhog

Stimson Center
• Iraq’s New Reality: Finding its Role in the Middle East

Strategic Studies Institute
• Decisionmaking in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM: Removing Saddam Hussein by Force
• Synchronizing U.S. Government Efforts toward Collaborative Health Care Policymaking in Iraq

Union of Concerned Scientists
• Japan and America’s Nuclear Posture
• Concerning the Program of the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (Japan Defense Agency report, 1995)

UK Home Office
• Pursue Prevent Protect Prepare: The United Kingdom's Strategy for Countering International Terrorism

UK House of Commons, Defence
• The Contribution of ISTAR to Operations

U.K Joint Committee on Human Rights
• Counter-Terrorism Policy and Human Rights (Seventeenth Report): Bringing Human Rights Back In

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Disrupting Iran's Illicit Activities
• Nuclear Proliferation and Nuclear Power in the Middle East
• What is the Purpose of the U.S. Foreign Terrorist Organizations List?

White House
• National Framework for Strategic Communication