Friday's Miscellany 08-27-2010

Air Force Space Command (AFSPC)
• High Frontier Journal, August 2010, v. 6, no. 4
o Cyberspace Mission Assurance: A New Paradigm for Operations in Cyberspace
o Cyber and Space – A Way Ahead
o Integrating and Synchronizing Non-kinetic Effects: USSTRATCOM Forward Integration Team
o Delivering It to the Soldier
o The Time Has Come for the Bachelor of Science in Cyber Engineering
o Mission Assurance in the Face of Cyber Attacks
o Cybersecurity: Challenging Questions with Incomplete Answers
o Exploring the Complementary Nature of Cyber and Space Operations
o Re-thinking Warfare: How Does the Integration of Space and Cyber Forces: Impact a Combatant Commander’s Air-Sea Battle Concept?
o Examining the Inherent Right of Self-Defense
o Cerfing (Cyber)Space
o Space and Cyber: A Valuable Strategic Alliance
o The Cyber Kill Chain: a Foundation for a New Cyber Security Strategy
o Beyond Data Services: Cloud Processing for Net-Centric Information Distribution
o Demonstrating Cyberspace Superiority in an Acquisition World

Amnesty International
• UN Human Rights Council Fifteenth Session
• Yemen: Security at What Price?

Asian Development Bank Institute
• Impacts of Current Global Economic Crisis on Asia's Labor Market

Brookings Institute
• Afghanistan Index: Tracking Progress and Security in Post-9/11 Afghanistan [updated August 19, 2010 and Archives]
• Earthquakes and Floods: Comparing Haiti and Pakistan
• Iraq Index Tracking Reconstruction and Security in Post-Saddam Iraq [updated August 24, 2010 and Archives]
• New Orleans Index at Five: An Overview of Greater New Orleans: From Recovery to Transformation
• Pakistan Index: Tracking Variables of Reconstruction & Security in Pakistan [updated August 16, 2010 and Archives]
• Reflections on the Evolution of the China Field in Political Science
• U.S. Aid to Pakistan: Time for a New Approach

Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)
• Welcome to a New Era of Arctic Security

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
• Issus and Insights Vol 10 – No 22: The Cheonan’s Long Shadow: The Second US-ROK Strategic Dialogue
• Issues and Insights Vol 10 – No 21: The Heart of the Matter: ‘Core Interests’ in the US-China Relationship

Center on Contemporary Conflict (CCC)
• Strategic Insights, Spring/Summer 2010, v. 9, no. 1, Special Issue: The Complex Realm of Asymmetric Warfare
o State Security Policy and Proxy Wars in Africa: Ultima Ratio Regum: Remix or Redux?
o Change We Can Fight Over: The Relationship between Arable Land Supply and Substate Conflict
o Understanding Female Suicide Terrorism in Sri Lanka through a Constructivist Lens
o The Perilous Slog of Asymmetric Warfare: A Better Way Forward in Afghanistan
o Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement as an Instrument of Coercion

Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program
• China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, 2010, v. 8, no. 2
o Traditional and Non-Traditional Security Threats in Central Asia: Connecting the Old and the New
o Conventional Security Risks to Central Asia: A Summary Overview
o Energy and Environmental Issues in Central Asia’s Security Agenda
o “Misunderstanding”: A Road to Nowhere - Reflections from Tajikistan
o Central Asia in the Context of Japanese-Russian Relations
o Energy-related Corruption and its Effects on Stability in Central Asia
o The Vulnerability of Energy Infrastructure to Environmental Change
o Potential Security Implications of Environmental Change in Central Asia
o Climate Change and Water Security: Implications for Central Asia
o Environment and Security in the East Caspian Region
o Radioactive Tailings in Kyrgyzstan: Challenges and Solutions
o Uranium Production and Nuclear Energy in Central Asia: Assessment of Security Challenges and Risks

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee
• FIELD HEARING - Five Years Later: Lessons Learned, Progress Made, and Work Remaining from Hurricane Katrina

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
• The Budget and Economic Outlook: An Update
• Estimated Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on Employment and Economic Output From April 2010 Through June 2010

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
• Anxious Iraqis Look at Uncertain Future

Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)
• Security and Justice Reform in Sierra Leone: A Decade of Learning Revisited

Defence Academy of the United Kingdom
• Returning Science to the Social (Making Sense of Confusion: A Case for Honest Reflection)

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)
• D-2010-077 Air Force Military Personnel Entitlement Pay in Support of Contingency Operations

Department of Homeland Security Inspector General
• OIG-10-106 - Annual Review of the United States Coast Guard’s Mission Performance (FY 2009)

Department of State
• Section 655 Annual Military Assistance Reports
• Universal Periodic Review

Elcano Royal Institute
• A New Composite Global Terrorism Threat to Western Societies from Pakistan? Making Sense of the January 2008 Suicide Bomb Plot in Barcelona

Foreign Policy Magazine
• Militants on the Move in Pakistan?

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
• Ancient and Modern Nation-Building: The Biblical Model for the American Experience

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
• Federal Contracting: Opportunities Exist to Increase Competition and Assess Reasons When Only One Offer Is Received, GAO-10-833
• Telecommunications: Enhanced Data Collection Could Help FCC Better Monitor Competition in the Wireless Industry, GAO-10-779

Heritage Foundation
• Another Presidential Rescue Mission in North Korea
• The China Military Report and What’s Left Unsaid
• Cyber Security: A Complex “Web” of Problems
• More Than Lip Service: Why Private Sector Engagement is Essential
• New CBO Budget Baseline Shows that Soaring Spending – Not Falling Revenues – Risks Drowning America in Debt
• New Technologies, Future Weapons: Gene Sequencing and Synthetic Biology
• Obama Administration Must Enforce America’s Immigration Laws
• Returning More Power to the States Is the Natural Evolution in Homeland Security

Hoover Institution
• All Economics is Political: ECFA Front and Center

Human Rights Watch
• Detained and at Risk: Sexual Abuse and Harassment in United States Immigration Detention
• An Uncertain Future: Oil Contracts and Stalled Reform in Sao Tome e Principe
• “As if We Weren’t Human”: Discrimination and Violence against Women with Disabilities in Northern Uganda

Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)
• If India Tests? The Implications for the Indo-US Civil-Nuclear Deal

Institute for the Study of War
• Afghanistan Order of Battle (August)

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• Islamic Banking: How Has it Diffused?
• Measuring Financial Barriers Among East African Community Countries

Institute for War & Peace Reporting
• Helmand Bomb Deaths Could Boost Taleban

International Relations and Security Network
• An Asymmetrical Drone War
• FARC Seeking Rebirth in Venezuela?
• Floods and Failure in Pakistan
• Mongolia Wary of Chinese Intentions
• Navigating the US-India Nuclear Partnership
• The Next Baghdad Boom
• Pakistan’s Continuing Misery

Marine Corps University Press
• Marine Corps University Journal, Spring 2010, v. 1, no. 1
o “This Will Not Come Quickly”: An Interview with Anthony H. Cordesman on the Situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan
o “Right Now, We Cannot Just Let Go”: An Interview with Amin Tarzi on the Situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan
o List of Selected Publications on Afghanistan and Pakistan
o Feral Cities: Problems Today, Battlefields Tomorrow?

National Defense University Press
• The 71F Advantage: Applying Army Research Psychology for Health and Performance Gains

Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
• Fresh Insights on Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration: A Survey for Practitioners

Office of Immigration Statistics
• 2009 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics

Pakistan Security Research Unit (PSRU)
• PSRU Brief # 60. Domestic Politics and Systemic Constraints in Pakistanâ's India Policy
• PSRU Brief # 59. An Analysis of Obama’s AfPak Goal and First Objective: Setting the Baseline and Prospects for Success

Pew Global Attitudes Project
• Obama's Middle East Problem

Pew Internet & American Life Project
• Older Adults and Social Media

Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
• Public Remains Conflicted Over Islam

RAND
• Are Law and Policy Clear and Consistent? Roles and Responsibilities of the Defense Acquisition Executive and the Chief Information Officer
• Navy Network Dependability: Models, Metrics, and Tools

Small Wars Journal
• The Best Defense is a Good Offense: The Necessity of Targeted Killing
• Deep Inside the Insurgent’s Mind: Past the Motorcycle Diaries Towards Understanding Che Guevera
• Conviction Focused Targeting: Targeting Violent Extremists While Developing Rule of Law Capacity
• Preventing Future Natural Disaster Casualties: Partnering with USAID and the Office of Reconstruction and Development
• Professional Military Education for United States Army Special Operations Forces (Part Two)
• The Rise of Intrastate Wars: New Threats and New Methods
• Signals and Noise in Intelligence
• Transition to Iraq Sovereignty: The Impact on US Military Advisory Efforts
• What Sri Lanka Can Teach Us About COIN

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)
• David Galula: His Life and Intellectual Context
• U.S. Military Forces and Police Assistance in Stability Operations: The Least-Worst Option to Fill the U.S. Capacity Gap

Truman Project
• National Security Manual 2010

US Institute of Peace (USIP)
• Conflict Prevention: Principles, Policies and Practice
• Correcting America's Image Problem in Pakistan

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Iran's Shadow over Unrest in Bahrain
• Peace within a Year? Israeli-Palestinian Direct Talks Resume
• Reassessing U.S. Military Assistance to Lebanon

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
• Two Views on the Crisis in Sudan

World Bank
• Why Are Developing Countries So Slow in Adopting New Technologies? The Aggregate and Complementary Impact of Micro Distortions