Friday's Miscellany 06--4-2010

AEI Critical Threats
• The Partitioning of Somalia: Islamists Strengthened Against Western-Backed Government

Air University
• Air & Space Power Journal, Summer 2010, 24, no. 2
o Leading and Managing through Influence: Challenges and Responses
o The Art of Persuasion
o The Role of Airpower in Active Missile Defense
o New Horizons: Coalition Space Operation
o Should the United States Maintain the Nuclear Triad?
o Updating a Cold War Relic: Ensuring That the New Air Force Doctrine Document 3 Reflects Current Air Force Roles and Missions
o Beddown Options for Air National Guard C-27J Aircraft: Supporting Domestic Response
o Finishing Strong in Iraq: Why the Air Force Must Be the Last to Leave Operation Iraqi Freedom
o Colombia Can Teach Afghanistan (and the United States) How to Win
o Building an Offensive and Decisive PLAAF: A Critical Review of Lt Gen Liu Yazhou’s The Centenary of the Air Force
• Strategic Studies Quarterly, Summer 2010, v. 4, no. 2
o What's Wrong with Zero?
o Technology Assessment: Democracy's Crucible, the Future of Science and Technology, and Implications for Our Defense in the Twenty-first Century
o Washington's Newest Bogeyman: Debunking the Fear of Failed States
o From Proliferator to Model Citizen? China's Recent Enforcement of Nonproliferation-Related Trade Controls and its Potential Positive Impact in the Region
o Bush vs. Obama Detainee Policy Post-9/11: An Assessment
o Tribal Dynamics and the Iraq Surge
o Wartime Alliances versus Coalition Warfare: How Institutional Structure Matters in the Multilateral Prosecution of Wars

Army War College
• Parameters, Spring 2010, v. 40, no. 1
o The Issue of Attrition
o Integrating Civilian and Military Activities
o Counterinsurgency 3.0
o Combating a Combat Legacy
o The Strategic Failures of al Qaeda
o Growing Strategic Leaders for Future Conflict
o Clausewitz and the "New Wars" Scholars
o Our Visual Persuasion Gap

Asian Development Bank
• Free Trade Agreements in East Asia: A Way toward Trade Liberalization?

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)
• Special Report Issue 31 – Naval Gazing: The Future of Australia’s Naval Shipbuilding and Repair Sector

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies
• The Armageddon Scenario: Israel and the Threat of Nuclear Terrorism

Brookings Institute
• Comparing Climate Commitments: A Model-Based Analysis of the Copenhagen Accord
• Economic Growth and Institutional Innovation: Outlines of a Reform Agenda
• How We're Doing as Debt Fears Rise
• Pakistan Index: Tracking Variables of Reconstruction & Security in Pakistan [updated June 3, 2010 and archives]
• Towards More Effective Protection for IDPs in Southern Afghanistan

Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)
• The Past as Prologue: Sustaining Canadian Capacity for Defence, Diplomacy and Development
• Unstoppable Momentum: The Real Meaning and Value Behind Operation Nunavilut 10

CATO Institute
• Manufacturing Discord: Growing Tensions Threaten the US-China Economic Relationship
• Mexico’s Failed Drug War
• Nuclear Proliferation Update: May 2010
• Rethinking Darfur
• When Will the Eurozone Collapse?

Center for American Progress
• Assessing Peace Prospects in Afghanistan: The “Peace Jirga” and President Karzai’s New Peace Plan
• Powering an Oil Reform Agenda: Congress and the White House Must Drive Together

Center for Security Policy
• How Wars Begin
• National Security Policy Proceedings, Spring 2010, v. 1
o START the Debate
o Assessing the “Reset” in US-Russia Relations
o 9/11: Eight Years Later
o Define the Enemy: What It Takes to Win in Afghanistan
o Preventing Terrorist Travel

Center for Security Studies (CSS)
• No. 75: To Draft or Not to Draft? Conscription Reform in the EU
• No. 76: Unconventional Gas: Producer Pickle or Consumer Curse?

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
• Business In Bulgaria: An Overview for Investors and Managers in 2010
• Cyber War and Competition in the China – US Relationship
• Hemisphere Highlights, May 2010, v. 9, no. 5
• Implementation of the Weapon System Acquisition Reform Act of 2009

Centre for International Governance (CIGI)
• The Financial Stability Board: An Effective Fourth Pillar of Global Economic Governance?
• The Financial Stability Board and International Standards
• Security Sector Reform Monitor: Afghanistan no. 3

Chatham House
• Our Common Strategic Interests: Africa's Role in the Post-G8 World

Combat Studies Institute Press
• From El Billar to Operations Fenix and Jaque: the Colombian Security Force Experience, 1998-2008 [Occasional Paper no. 34]
• The Long War Against Piracy: Historical Trends [Occasional Paper no. 32]
• To Fight or Not to Fight?: Organizational and Doctrinal Trends in Mounted Maneuver Reconnaissance from the Interwar Years to Operation IRAQI FREEDOM
• Searching for Stability: The U.S. Development of Constabulary Forces in Latin America and the Philippines [Occasional Paper no. 30]
• The US Army and the Media in the 20th Century [Occasional Paper no. 31]

Congressional Budget Office
• Health Costs and the Federal Budget
• Strategies for Maintaining the Navy’s and Marine Corps’ Inventories of Fighter Aircraft

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
• Fifteen Nuclear Agendas to Watch
• Media Censorship in China
• U.S. Deepwater Drilling's Future

Danish Institute for International Studies
• The Role of Islamic Charities in International Terrorist Recruitment and Financing

Delhi Policy Group
• Afghanistan-India-Pakistan Trialogue 2009

Department of Defense
• DoD Instruction 2000.11, Procedures for Handling Requests for Asylum and Temporary Refuge, May 13, 2010
• DoD Instruction 5100.76, Safeguarding Conventional Arms, Ammunition, and Explosives (AA&E), May 20, 2010
• DoD Instruction 6000.16, Military Health Support for Stability Operations, May 17, 2010
• DoD Manual 3020.45-V5, Defense Critical Infrastructure Program (DCIP): Execution Timeline, May 24, 2010
• DoD Manual O-3020.44-M, OSD Defense Crisis Management (CrM) Procedures, May 19, 2010
• Directive-Type Memorandum DTM-09-031, Videotaping or Otherwise Electronically Recording Strategic Intelligence Interrogations of Persons in the Custody of the Department of Defense, May 10, 2010
• Guidance for Improved Operational Efficiencies

Department of Justice Inspector General
• Review of the Department’s Preparation to Respond to a WMD Incident

Departments of Justice, Defense, State, Homeland Security, ODNI and JCS
• Final Report Guantanamo Review Task Force

Department of State
• U.S. Climate Action Report 2010: Fifth National Communication of the United States of America Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Energy Information Administration (EIA)
• Country Analysis Brief: Egypt

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
• Nuclear Safety: Convention on Nuclear Safety Is Viewed by Most Member Countries as Strengthening Safety Worldwide, GAO-10-489
• Nuclear Safety: Convention on Nuclear Safety Survey (GAO-10-550SP, April 2010), an E-supplement to GAO-10-489, GAO-10-550SP
• Questions for the Record Related to Military Compensation, GAO-10-803R

Henry Stimson
• Fresh Water Futures: Imagining Responses to Demand Growth, Climate Change, and the Politics of Water Resource Management by 2040

Heritage Foundation
• A Constitutional Bases for Defense
• Federal Spending by the Numbers 2010
• The Gaza Flotilla Incident: U.N. Inquiry Will Be an Anti-Israel Farce
• New Japanese Government Should Affirm Support for Agreed Repositioning of US Forces
• Protect America from What?
• U.S.-China Cooperation: Strengthening the U.S. Hand
• What a Market Economy Offers India
• With Re-Acceptance of Marines on Okinawa, Time to Look Ahead

Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)
• Peacekeeping Partnerships: Cooperation or Conflict

Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS)
• Middle East Strategic Perspectives #1
• The Rearmament Debate in South America
• Strategic Forum no. 256 - Prioritizing Strategic Interests in South Asia

Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
• American Military Operations inside Pakistan: Will it help the US, Pakistan and India?

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)
• Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran
• Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Syrian Arab Republic
• India Expanding Military Nuclear Site

Institute for the Study of War
• Consolidating Private Security Companies in Southern Afghanistan

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)
• 103: The Maoist Movement in Sri Lanka
• South Asia Link, April 2010, no. 1

International Crisis Group
• International CrisisWatch No. 82, June 1, 2010
• Steps Towards Peace: Putting Kashmiris First

International Defense Cooperation Community
• Common Defense Quarterly, Summer 2010
o Building Cooperative Partnerships to Enhance the Global Maritime Partnership
o A Strange Nuclear Policy
o NATO Seasparrow: The project advances to adolescence
o The New Currency of Travel and Trade
o Telecom as a Strategic Industry: Building a Framework
o Emergency Preparedness since 9/11 in the National Capital Region
o Border Security Operations and Arizona’s New Migration Law
o The United States National Guard: Designed To Respond
o Interview with Sean O’Keefe, CEO, EADS North America
o International Dimensions of Intellectual Property

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• The Credit Boom in the EU New Member States: Bad Luck or Bad Policies?
• U.S. Bank Behavior in the Wake of the 2007-2009 Financial Crisis

International Relations and Security Network
• The EU's Declaration of Impotence
• Gaza’s Global Moment
• Polish Power Projection

International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)
• Executive Summary for 21 February 2010 CIVCAS Incident in Uruzgan Province
• Transcript: NATO Media Opinion Leader Roundtable with Gen. McChrystal

Jamestown Foundation
• Terrorism Monitor, June 5, 2010, v. 8, no. 22
o Egypt and Gaza's Islamic Jihad: A Steady Deterioration in Relations
o Europol Report Suggests Separatism Rather than Islamism Constitutes Biggest Terrorist Threat to Europe
o 100 More Terrorist Groups Banned in India: What are India's Counterterrorism Priorities?

Lexington Institute
• Back To The Future – The Perils of Insourcing
• Smart Grid Implementation: Strategies for Success

Lowy Institute
• Australia and the World: Public Opinion and Foreign Policy [Lowy Institute Poll 2010]

National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA)
• The Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System
• A National Dialogue on the Quadrennial Homeland Security Review

National Security Archive
• Secret U.S. Overture to Iran in 1999 Broke Down Over Terrorism Allegations

North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) and DoE
• High-Impact, Low-Frequency Event Risk to the North American Bulk Power System

Office of the Director of Intelligence (ODNI)
• Reforming Intelligence: The Passage of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act
Pak Institute for Peace Studies
• Jihad, Extremism and Radicalization: A Public Perspective
• Litterateurs’ Response to Extremism in Pakistan
• Radicalization in Pakistan: Understanding the Phenomenon
• Trends and Patterns of Radicalization in Pakistan
• Women Radicalization: An Emperical Study

Pakistan Security Research Unit (PSRU)
• Brief Number 58: Islamic Militancy Getting Worse, not Better: The Recent Attacks on the Ahmadi Mosques in Lahore

Peterson Institute for International Economics
• Assessing the American Power Act: The Economic, Employment, Energy Security, and Environmental Impact of Senator Kerry and Senator Lieberman's Discussion Draft
• Beware of Greeks Bearing Debts

RAND
• Building Security in the Persian Gulf
• Education, Training, Innovation: Evidence from Transition Economies
• Making Policy in the Shadow of the Future
• The Role of Faith-Based Organizations in HIV Prevention and Care in Central America
• Spanish translation

Reaching Critical Will
• Reaching Critical Will's Guide to 2010 - a Briefing Book for the 2010 NPT Review Conference • 2010 NPT Review Conference documents

Security Council Report
• Cross-Cutting Report on Children and Armed Conflict

Small Wars Journal
• “The COIN Warrior” Waging Influence: Hints for the Counterinsurgency (COIN) Strategy in Afghanistan
• A Combined Arms Response to Death of the Armor Corps
• Discourse on Pakistan’s Jamaat-e-Islami and Its Founder Abu al-Ala al-Mawdudi: Uncovering the Philosophy and Nuance of America’s Adversary in Pakistan
• Peaceful Rise through Unrestricted Warfare: Grand Strategy with Chinese Characteristics
• Rediscovering the Art of Psychological Operations in the Afghan Counterinsurgency
• The Ship is the Visual, Even in the Shadow Zones
• Tribal Engagement: The Jirga and the Shura

Stanley Foundation
• Wider Lessons for Peacebuilding: Security Sector Reform in Liberia

Strategic Studies Institute
• Human Intelligence: All Humans, All Minds, All the Time
• Rethinking Leadership and "Whole of Government" National Security Reform: Problems, Progress, and Prospects

UN Human Rights Council
• Report of the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, Philip Alston - Addendum Study on Targeted Killings

US-China Economic and Security Review Commission
• Transcript of the April 8, 2010 Hearing on “China’s Green Energy and Environmental Policies.”

US Institute of Peace (USIP)
• Cooperation and Tension in Regional and Global Infectious Disease Surveillance
• Mediating Peace with Proscribed Armed Groups
• A New Kind of Balkans Drama
• On The Issues: Turkey and Its Relations with Iraq
• Working With Groups of Friends

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• After the Gaza Flotilla: Policy Challenges and Options
• Fallout from the Gaza Flotilla Tragedy
• President Obama's Cairo Speech: A First-Year Scorecard
• Proceedings of the 2010 Soref Symposium and 25th Anniversary Celebration