Friday's Miscellany 03-04-2011

38 North: An Online Journal of North Korean Affairs
• Engaging the DPRK Part 2: Transforming the DPRK through Energy Sector Development

Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN)
• Untangling Afghanistan’s 2010 Vote: Analyzing the Electoral Data

Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)
• Beyond the Market: Can the AREDP Transform Afghanistan’s Rural Nonfarm Economy?

Air National Guard
• Air National Guard 2011 Weapons Systems Modernization Requirements

Air University
• Strategic Studies Quarterly, Spring 2011, v. 5, no. 1
o The Future of Things “Cyber”
o An Air Force Strategic Vision for 2020-2030
o Rise of a Cybered Westphalian Age
o Retaliatory Deterrence in Cyberspace
o Perspectives for Cyber Strategists on Law for Cyberwar
o World Gone Cyber MAD: How “Mutually Assured Debilitation” Is the Best Hope for Cyber Deterrence
o Nuclear Crisis Management and “Cyberwar”: Phishing for Trouble?
o Cyberwar as a Confidence Game
o Blown to Bits: China’s War in Cyberspace, August-September 2020
o Cyberdeterrence between Nation-States: Plausible Strategy or a Pipe Dream?

Air University Library
• Humanitarian Intervention and Assistance
• Strategy – Bibliography
• Terrorism – Current Regional Issues – Bibliography

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
• Al Qaeda's Operating Environments: A New Approach to the War on Terror
• Assessing the Strategic Readiness of US Armed Forces
• Comparing Federal and Private Sector Compensation
• Getting to Deficit Reduction
• Iran’s Secret Network: Major General Qassem Suleimani’s Inner Circle
• World Population Prospects and the Global Economic Outlook The Shape of Things to Come

Amnesty International
• Tunisia in Revolt: State Violence During Anti-Government Protests

Army War College
• Information as Power - vol. 5
o Section 1: Information Effects in the Cognitive Dimension
o Narratives of Empowerment: A Cultural Analysis of Hezbollah
o The Role of Religion in National Security Policy Since 9/11
o A Commander’s Strategy for Social Media
o Strategic Communication: A Departmental Transformation
o Section 2: Information Effects in the Cyberspace Domain
o Russian Cyberspace Strategy and a Proposed United States Response
o Keeping Up with the Drones: Is Just War Theory Obsolete?
o Reflections on a Strategic Vision for Computer Network Operations
o Strategic Impact of Cyber Warfare Rules for the United States

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies
• It’s Iran, not Israel Stupid
• The Plagues of Egypt
• Turkey’s Changing Foreign Policy and its International Ramifications
• US Policy Regarding the Upheaval in Egypt: Endangering the Strategic Foundations of Regional Stability

Brookings Institution
• Afghanistan Index: Tracking Progress and Security in Post-9/11 Afghanistan [updated February 28, 2011]
• The Arab Democracy Paradox
• Climate Change and Internal Displacement: A Contribution to the Discussion
• D.C.’s New Guard: What Does the Next Generation of American Leaders Think?
• Education and Displacement: Assessing Conditions for Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons Affected by Conflict
• Egypt's Transition to Democracy: A Letter From the Working Group on Egypt
• Iraq Index: Tracking Reconstruction and Security in Post-Saddam Iraq [updated February 25, 2011]
• Libya's Test of the New International Order
• Pakistan Index: Tracking Variables of Reconstruction & Security in Pakistan [updated February 24, 2011]
• Political Polarization: What the U.S. Can Learn From Latin America
• Realizing National Responsibility for the Protection of Internally Displaced Persons in Afghanistan: A Review of Relevant Laws, Policies, and Practices
• The Terms They Are A-Changin’ …. – Watching Cloud Contracts Take Shape

Bruges Group
• German Economic Policy and the Euro 1999-2010

Canada. Air Force
• Canadian Air Force Journal, Winter 2011, v. 4, no. 1
o Disaster Interoperability Response Experiment (DIRE) 2010
o Exercise VIGILANT EAGLE 2010 : Ground Breaking Engagement with Russia
o Performance-Based Management and Aircraft Periodic Maintenance
o Future Air Platforms: Preliminary Analysis
o Terminology Talk (Article 1): Air Force Terminology is Airborne

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Arab Reform Bulletin - Iraq’s Petroleum Impasse
• China and the U.S. Nuclear Posture Review

Carter Center
• Political Party Youth Wings in Nepal

Center for a New American Strategy (CNAS)
• Crime Wars: Gangs, Cartels and U.S. National Security
• Social Networks, Privacy, and Freedom of Association: How Individual Rights Can Both Encourage and Reduce Uses of Personal Information

Center for American Progress
• Restoring Tricare: Ensuring the Long Term Viability of the Military Health Care System

Center for Defense Information (CDI)
• The Pentagon Labyrinth: 10 Short Essays to Help You Through It

Center for Democracy in the Americas
• As Cuba Plans to Drill in the Gulf of Mexico, U.S. Policy Poses Needless Risks to Our National Interest

Center for Global Development
• Failed States, Vicious Cycles and a Proposal

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
• Afghanistan and the Uncertain Metrics of Progress: Part Three: Key Ongoing Challenges
• Afghanistan and the Uncertain Metrics of Progress: Part Four: Hold and Build, and The Challenge of Development
• Issues & Insights Vol. 11 - No. 2 - Changing Security Paradigms and Korea’s New Asia Policy: Visions for 2030
• Libya as a Multilateral Moment
• PacNet #14 - Logic may help: Pakistan and the FMCT
• Qaddafi’s Tangled Legacy in Africa
• Stability in the Middle East: The Other Side of Security
• U.S. And Iranian Strategic Competition: Competition between the US and Iran in Iraq

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)
• FY 2012 Base Defense Budget Represents a Turning Point
• The FY 2012 Defense Budget: What to Expect in an Age of Austerity

Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program
• The China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, 2010, v. 8, no. 4
o Remittances and the Macroeconomic Impact of the Global Economic Crisis in the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan
o Kazakhstan and China: Trade and Economic Cooperation
o Partnership Not Mentorship: Re-appraising the Relationship Between the EU and the Central Asian States
o A Nuclear Iran? Failed U.S. Foreign Policy Requires Compromise and Patient Multilateral Dialogue
o Identity and Mobilization in Transnational Societies: A Case Study of Uyghur Diasporic Nationalism
o Playing Chess on the Eurasia Steppe: The State of the Energy “Game” 10 Years into the New Millennium in Russia and the Near Abroad
o China, Russia and the Leadership of the SCO: a Tacit Deal Scenario
o Sino-Indian Trade Relations and the Ongoing Border Dispute
o Realism and the Changing International System: Will China and Russia Challenge the Status Quo?

Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS)
• Is NATO’s Counterinsurgency Strategy Working in Afghanistan? A Case Study

Centre for Social Cohesion (CSC)
• A Degree of Influence: The Funding of Strategically Important Subjects in UK Universities

Century Foundation
• Building Afghan Peace from the Ground Up

Chatham House
• Resurgent Trilateralism in Northeast Asia

Combined Arms Center
• Military Review, March- April 2011, v. 91, no. 2
o The Coming Test of U.S. Credibility
o Military Theory, Strategy, and Praxis
o Rebuilding Afghanistan's National Security Forces: Fighting Asymmetry with Symmetry
o Mexico: Failing State or Emerging Democracy?
o A Practical Guide to Design: A Way to Think About It, and a Way to Do It
o Beyond Reconciliation: Developing Faith, Hope, Trust, and Unity in Iraq
o Mechanized Forces in Irregular Warfare
o Fighting to Understand: A Practical Example of Design at the Battalion Level
o How Emotional Intelligence Can Make a Difference
o Change 1 to Field Manual 3-0: The Way the Army Fights Today
o The Way Out of Afghanistan

Congress. House. Armed Services Committee
• 2012 Budget Request for the Army
• 2012 Budget Request for DOD Science and Technology
• 2012 Budget Request for U.S. Central Command and U.S. Special Operations Command
• Equipping the Warfighter in Afghanistan
• The Status of United States Strategic Forces

Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee
• Assessing U.S. Foreign Policy Priorities and Needs Amidst Economic Challenges
• Reforming the United Nations: Lessons Learned

Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee
• The President’s FY 2012 Budget Request for the Department of Homeland Security
• Terrorist Threat to the U.S. Homeland – Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)

Congress. House. Judiciary Committee
• Making Immigration Work for American Minorities

Congress. House. Oversight & Government Reform Committee
• U.S. Military Leaving Iraq: Is The State Department Ready?
• The Refuse Of The Federal Spending Binge II: How U.S. Taxpayers Are Paying Double For Failing Gov't

Congress. House. Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
• A Review of the Administration's Fiscal Year 2012 Budget Requests for the U.S. Coast Guard, Federal Maritime Commission, and Federal Maritime Administration; Finding Ways To Do More with Less

Congress. Senate. Armed Services Committee
• U.S. Special Operations Command and U.S. Central Command in review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2012 and the Future Years Defense Program

Congress. Senate. Foreign Affairs Committee
• Breaking the Cycle of North Korean Provocations
• National Security & Foreign Policy Priorities in the FY 2012 International Affairs Budget
• Navigating a Turbulent Global Economy – Implications for the United States

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee
• Preventing Abuse of the Military's Tuition Assistance Program

CNA
• Libya’s Pan-African Policy

Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)
• CTC Sentinel, February 2011, v. 4, no. 2
o The Muslim Brotherhood's Role in the Egyptian Revolution
o Revolution in Tunisia and Egypt: A Blow to the Jihadist Narrative?
o AQIM'S Objectives in North Africa
o The Tribal Allegiance System Within AQIM
o The Violent Shift in Hizb al-Tahrir's Rhetoric
o Baltimore's Jamaat al-Mulsimeen: Promoting a Radical but Disciplined Message on Jihad
o Recent Highlights in Terrorist Activity
• Crime and Insurgency In the Tribal Areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan
• Self-Inflicted Wounds: Debates and Divisions within al-Qa'ida and its Periphery

Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan
• At What Risk? Correcting Over-Reliance on Contractors in Contingency Operations
• Iraq — A Forgotten Mission?

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
• The Case for UN Peacekeeping
• The Drug War in Mexico: Confronting a Shared Threat
• The Global Regime for Armed Conflict
• Issue Guide: Arab and Middle East Protests
• 'New Chapter' in Middle East

Defence Research and Development Canada
• Comparison of Identify-Friend-Foe and Blue-Force Tracking Decision Support for Combat Identification
• Matrix Game Methodology: Support to V2010 Olympic Marine Security Planners
• Weighting of Contingency Information in Causal Judgment: Evidence of Hypothesis Dependence and Use of a Positive-Test Strategy

Department of Defense
• Afghanistan Security Forces Fund Purchases
• DoD 3020.45-M, Vol. 3, Defense Critical Infrastructure Program (DCIP) Security Classification Manual (SCM), February 15, 2011
• Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, Speech at West Point, NY, Friday, February 25, 2011
• Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, Colorado Springs, CO, Friday, March 04, 2011

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)
• D-2011-047 Improvements Needed in Contract Administration of the Subsistence Prime Vendor Contract for Afghanistan (Redacted)
• SPO-2011-003 - Assessment of U.S. Government Efforts to Train, Equip, and Mentor the Expanded Afghan National Police

Department of Education
• Handbook for Campus Safety and Security Reporting

Department of State
• 2011 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report

Department of the Army
• 2011 Army Posture Statement

East-West Center
• Bloody Blasphemy: Antagonizing Religious Minorities in Indonesia and Pakistan

EU Institute for Security Studies
• The Arab Democratic Wave: How the EU Can Seize the Moment
• Change in the Middle East and North Africa: A Turkish Perspective
• Mass Exodus and the Responsibility to Protect under International Law
• The Return of Gaddafi and His Chemical Weapons Spectre

European Policy Centre (EPU)
• Temporary and Circular Migration: Opportunities and Challenges

Executive Office of the President and the Council of Economic Advisers
• Economic Report of the President, 2011

Federation of American Scientists (FAS)
• U.S. Arms Transfers: Government Data

Feinstein International Center
• Participatory Impact Assessment: Africa Community Resilience Programme, Tsaeda Amba Woreda, Eastern Tigray, Ethiopia

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
• The Value Of The Visegrad Four

Geneva Centre for Security Policy
• The Arab Revolt: Roots and Perspectives
• Global Security and Regional Responses: Conflict Management in a Fractured World

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
• Defense Health: Management Weaknesses at Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury Require Attention, GAO-11-219
• Defense Infrastructure: Navy Can Improve the Quality of Its Cost Estimate to Homeport an Aircraft Carrier at Naval Station Mayport, GAO-11-309
• Depot Maintenance: Navy Has Revised Its Estimated Workforce Cost for Basing an Aircraft Carrier at Mayport, Florida, GAO-11-257R
• DOD Education Benefits: Increased Oversight of Tuition Assistance Program Is Needed, GAO-11-300
• DOD Education Benefits: Further Actions Needed to Improve Oversight of Tuition Assistance Program, GAO-11-389T [testimony]
• Education of Military Dependent Students: Better Information Needed to Assess Student Performance, GAO-11-231
• Opportunities to Reduce Potential Duplication in Government Programs, Save Tax Dollars, and Enhance Revenue, GAO-11-318SP
• Foreign Operations: Key Issues for Congressional Oversight, GAO-11-419T [testimony]
• U.S. Coins: Replacing the $1 Note with a $1 Coin Would Provide a Financial Benefit to the Government, GAO-11-281
• Warfighter Support: DOD's Urgent Needs Processes Need a More Comprehensive Approach and Evaluation for Potential Consolidation, GAO-11-273
• Warfighter Support: DOD Should Have a More Comprehensive Approach for Addressing Urgent Warfighter Needs, GAO-11-417T [testimony]

Heritage Foundation
• 10 Myths About KORUS and Free Trade Agreements
• Chinese Investment in the US: $2 Trillion and Counting
• The Crisis in Libya Exposes a Litany of Failed EU Policies
• Defrost the US-Taiwan Relationship
• Holding the Kirchners Accountable for Argentina’s Economic Freefall
• How to Fix the Federal Budget
• Mexico’s Calderon and Obama Meet: Time for a Ronald Reagan Moment
• The Motivation for the Referral of Libya to the ICC: Political Pressure or Justice?
• Not All Foreign Aid Is Equal
• Taking the Fight to the Pirates: Applying Counterterrorist Methods to the Threat of Piracy
• Time for a Long-Term Strategy for Libya
• What To Do About High Oil Prices

Homeland Security Policy Institute (HSPI)
• Egyptian Crosscurrents: The Muslim Brotherhood and Democracy on the Nile
• The Global Muslim Brotherhood: Myth or Reality?
• Tumult in the Middle East: When and Where Will the Next Shoe Drop?
• What's the Big Idea? Confronting the Ideology of Islamist Extremism

Hoover Institution
• China Leadership Monitor 2011 No. 34
o China’s Assertive Behavior – Part One: On “Core Interests”
o China’s Midterm Jockeying: Gearing Up for 2012
o Cross-Strait Relations: Setting the Stage for 2012
o Political Reform Was Never on the Agenda
o Splits in the Politburo Leadership?
o What Price Continuity?
o Xi Jinping and the Central Military Commission: Bridesmaid or Bride?

Hudson Institute
• The Canada Gambit: Will It Revive North America?

Institut für Strategie- Politik- Sicherheits- und Wirtschaftsberatung
• Military Confrontation on the Korean Peninsula

Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (ISDA)
• Addressing Stress-Related Issues in Army
• China’s Worried Response to the Uprisings in the Middle East
• No Solution in Sight for Russo-Japanese Territorial Dispute
• Pakistan’s Annual Deception
• Public Finance and National Security: Deficit Reduction and the American Military in a Time of Diminished Resources
• US Strategy in Afghanistan and Regional Concerns

Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis (IPFA)
• A Fiscal 2012 Missile Defense Agenda

Institute of Land Warfare
• The Enduring Need for an Effective US Landpower Presence in Europe

Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS)
• Strategic Perspectives 3 - Russia's Revival: Ambitions, Limitations, and Opportunities for the United States

Institute for Strategic, Political, Security and Economic Consultancy
• Drones for German Foreign and Security Policy?
• Military Confrontation on the Korean Peninsula
• Time to Rethink the Fight Against Maritime Piracy in the Indian Ocean

Inter-American Dialogue
• Obama’s Visit to Latin America: A View from the South
• Rethinking US Drug Policy

International Crisis Group
• Côte d’Ivoire: Is War the Only Option?
• CrisisWatch N°91, 1 March 2011

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• Current Account Rebalancing and Real Exchange Rate Adjustment Between the U.S. and Emerging Asia
• Dollarization in Cambodia: Causes and Policy Implications
• The Real Effects of Financial Sector Interventions During Crises
• Sovereign Credit Ratings and Spreads in Emerging Markets: Does Investment Grade Matter?

International Relations and Security Network
• Are ISAF's Tenuous Supply Lines Sustainable?
• Coalition Collapse Sets New Political Stage In Pakistan
• EU Migration Control: Made by Gaddafi?
• India, Indonesia Build on Shared Past
• Iran Maneuvers Uzbek-Tajik Squabbles
• Libya: The Washington-London Dilemma
• Rethinking the (European) Foundations of Sub-Saharan African Regional Economic Integration
• Syria at a Crossroads?
• UAE Sets Nuclear 'Gold Standard'
• Wilson, Trotsky, Assange: Lessons from the History of Diplomatic Transparency

Jamestown Foundation
• Terrorism Monitor, March 3, 2011, v. 9, no. 9
o Taliban Regroups in Pakistan's Dir Region after Successful Government Offensive
o "How I Joined Jihad": Nigerian Bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in His Own Words (Part Two)
o Special Report from Inside Libya: Assessing Libyan Rebel Forces

Lowry Institute
• ‘But This Time, Everything Turns Out Differently’: What the Tunisian and Egyptian Uprisings Mean for the Middle East
• Risky business: Emerging Risks for Cross-Border Business
• Zealous Democrats: Islamism and Democracy in Egypt, Indonesia and Turkey

Migration Information Source
• Re-envisioning Security and the Movement of People

Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies
• Qaddafi and His Nuclear Program: Second Thoughts?

National Defense University Press
• Prism, March 2011, v. 2, no. 2
o Human Security in Complex Operations
o Enhancing U.S. Support for UN Peacekeeping
o Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts: Putting Inter into Interagency
o Interagency National Security Teams: Can Social Science Contribute?
o The Comprehensive Approach in Afghanistan
o Conflict Prevention in East Africa: The Indirect Approach
o Rethinking the Fundamentals of State-building
o Nation-building Interventions and National Security: An Australian Perspective
o The Commander as Investor: Changing CERP Practices
o Airpower in Counterinsurgency and Stability Operations
o Ministerial Advisors: Developing Capacity for an Enduring Security Force
o Metrics for the Haiti Stabilization Initiative
o Civil-Military Operations in Kenya's Rift Valley: Sociocultural Impacts at the Local Level
o ISAF Lessons Learned: A German Perspective
o An Interview with William E. Ward
o Zero-Sum Future: American Power in an Age of Anxiety

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
• Special Publication 800-39, Managing Information Security Risk: Organization, Mission, and Information System View

North American Center for Transborder Studies (NACTS)
• Technology to Enhance Border Security

Orbis Operations
• Development in Afghanistan's Counterinsurgency: A New Guide

Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute (PKOSI)
• Small Wars 2.0: A Working Paper on Land Force Planning After Iraq and Afghanistan

Police Executive Research Forum (PERF)
• Police and Immigration: How Chiefs are Leading their Communities Through the Challenges

Portuguese Institute of International Relations and Security (IPRIS)
• Political Turbulence in the MENA Region: Change We Can Trust In? [IPRIS Viewpoints 40]
• A Safe Bet: Portuguese Technical-Military Cooperation with Lusophone Africa [IPRIS Viewpoints 39]
• An Unshaken Alliance: Angola's Stance in the Côte d’Ivoire [IPRIS Viewpoints 41]

Rand
• Linkages in World Financial Markets
• Year of the Air Force Family: 2009 Survey of Active-Duty Spouses

Security & Defence Agenda
• Cybersecurity: Is Technology Moving Faster Than Policy?
• SecDef’10 – Going Global: Europe’s Security Policy Challenge
• Securing European Energy Infrastructure
• Squaring the Circle: Fitting Force Transformation into NATO’s Lisbon Reform Programme

Small Arms Survey
• DDR in Sudan: Too Little, Too Late?
• Man-Portable Air Defence Systems (MANPADS)

Small Wars Journal
• The Closers (Part III): Civilians in the Hold Phase
• Design and the Prospects of a Design Ethic
• Developing Better Relations with Russia
• "Napoleonic Know-How” in an Age of Persistent Engagement
• Reflections on the French School of Counter-Rebellion: An Interview with Etienne de Durand
• The Second Battle of Hastings
• To Design, or not to Design
• Will the Real Robert Gates Please Stand Up?

Stanley Foundation
• UN Security Council Resolution 1540: Identity, Extension, and Implementation

Stimson Center
• Counterfeit Drugs and National Security
• Forging 21st Century Diplomatic Service for the United States

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)
• Civilian Skills for African Military Officers to Resolve the Infrastructure, Economic Development, and Stability Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa

Supreme Court of the United States
• Snyder v. Phelps et al. [right to protest at military funerals]

UK House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee
• The UK's Foreign Policy Approach to Afghanistan and Pakistan

UK National Audit Office
• Management of the Typhoon Project

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
• EFA Global Monitoring Report 2011: The Hidden Crisis: Armed Conflict and Education

UNITAR’S Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT)
• Satellite maps
• Somalia [especially piracy] maps

USAID
• Libya - Complex Emergency - Disaster Assistance at a Glance
• Office for Disaster Assistance (OFDA) Annual Report for FY 2009

US Institute of Peace (USIP)
• Covering and Countering Extremism in Pakistan’s Developing Media
• Diffusing Egypt’s Demographic Time Bomb
• Egypt, Tunisia, and the Constitutional Movement
• Libya: Preventing Violence Against Citizens

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Asserting Liberal Values: The Future of British and U.S. Counterradicalization Strategies
• The Consequences of Inaction in Libya
• Fighting in Libya: The Military Balance
• Gulf States Mull Massive Aid to Oman and Bahrain
• Iran's Political Super Bowl: Ahmadinezhad vs. Rafsanjani
• New Evidence of Iran's Nuclear Ambitions
• Policy Alert: How to Deal with Islamist Movements in Post-Revolutionary Regimes?
• Saudi Arabia's Musk Revolution
• The Strategic Geography of the Libyan Civil War

World Public Opinion.org
• Positive Views of Brazil on the Rise in 2011 BBC Country Rating Poll