Sunday, February 26, 2012

Friday's Miscellany 02-24-2012

Amnesty International

Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

ASUA Institute of Land Warfare
·         Breaking the Faith 

Atlantic Council

Australian Defence College
·         Australian Defence Force Journal, November/December 2011, no. 186 
o    You Can’t Ride a Concept to the Beach: The Gaps in Australia’s Envisaged Amphibious Capability
o    What’s Next in the Indian Ocean?
o    Air Power’s Contribution to Coercion
o    Military Retention Bonuses: Fact and Fiction
o    Human Systems Integration in Defence and Civilian Industries
o    Air Power and ISR: the RAAF Approach
o    ‘Sense and Respond’ and ‘Autonomic’ Logistics: A Review of US and UK Developments
o    ‘From Black to Black’: A Reform Veteran’s Perspective of the Black Review
o    The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy and the Way Out of Afghanistan

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

Brookings Institute

Canadian Defense & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Center for a New American Security

Center for American Progress

Center for Court Innovation

Center for Global Development

Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS)
·         Homeland Security Affairs (HSA) Journal, 2012, v. 3 
o    The All Needs Approach to Emergency Response
o    The Next Meltdown? Responding to a Nuclear Accident in the Developing World
o    Dispensing Mass Prophylaxis - The Search for the Perfect Solution
o    Pandemic Vaccine Policy for the Twenty-first Century

Center for Immigration Studies (CIS)

Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA)

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
·         A Free North Korea 
·         Islam, Islamism, and Politics in Eurasia Report (IIPER) - No. 52, 17 February 2012 

Center for the Study of Intelligence
·         FOIA Annual Report to Congress 
·         Studies in Intelligence, December 2011, v. 55, no. 4 
o    Capturing the Potential of Outlier Ideas in the Intelligence Community
o    OSS and Free Thai Operations in World War II

Centre for Military and Strategic Studies
·         Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, Summer 2011, v. 13, no. 4 
o    Development of Operational Thinking in the German Army in the World War Era
o    “Military Doomsday Machine”? The Decisions for War 1914
o    Politics by Other Means: Canadian "Strategy" and the Italian Campaign, 1943
o    “Let Them Make SOUP:” The Essential Ingredients of Euro-American Grand Strategy and the Amerindian Conquest
o    The Evolution of Strategic Thinking in World War I: A Case Study of the Second Battle of the Marne
o    Strategy "In a Microcosm": Processes of Tactical Learning in a WWI German Infantry Division
o    Grand Strategy, Culture, and Strategic Choice: A Review

Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS)

Chatham House
·         Angola’s External Relations in Africa (transcript)    

CNA

Col. Arthur D. Simons Center
·         Interagency Journal, Winter 2012, v. 3, no. 1 
o    The Need for Interagency Reform: Congressional Perspective and Efforts
o    Implementing the QDDR
o    “Uribismo”: How Colombia Tamed Fifty Years of Violence
o    Navigating Civil-Military Relations in Kabul
o    Departments of State and Defense Relations: Are Perceptions Important?
o    Achieving Unity of Effort

Committee to Protect Journalists

Council of Economic Advisers (CEA)

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
·         The Iran Diplomacy Puzzle 
·         Rescue or Risk for Greece? 
·         Securing U.S. Cyberspace 

Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)
·         What Does Religion Have to Do with Violence? (DIIS Religion and Violence papers)

Department of Defense (DOD)
·         DoD Directive 6490.02E, Comprehensive Health Surveillance, February 8, 2012 

Department of Homeland Security Inspector General
·         OIG-04-02 National Emergency Management Information System (NEMIS) Access Control System 

Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
·         2010 National Vaccine Plan 

Department of State
·         Keynote Address at Global Business Conference [Sec Clinton] 
·         Qu'ran Desecration in Afghanistan 

Department of the Army
·         2012 Army Posture Statement 

Department of the Navy
·         SECNAV 4101.3 Department of the Navy Energy Program for Security and Independence roles and Responsibilities   

East-West Center

Enough Project

EU Institute for Security Studies

Eurostat & Statistics Korea

FAZD Center

Foreign Policy
·         Portraits of a Massacre Foretold [Syrian regime's assault on Homs] 

FRIDE

Geneva Centre for Security Policy

George C. Marshall Institute

German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

German Marshall Fund of the United States

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
·         Afghanistan Security: Department of Defense Effort to Train Afghan Police Relies on Contractor Personnel to Fill Skill and Resource Gaps, GAO-12-293R 
·         Defense Management: Guidance and Progress Measures Are Needed to Realize Benefits from Changes in DOD's Joint Requirements Process, GAO-12-339 
·         The Department of Energy's Office of Science Uses a Multilayered Process for Prioritizing Research, GAO-12-410R 
·         Emergency Communications: Various Challenges Likely to Slow Implementation of a Public Safety Broadband Network, GAO-12-343 
·         National Preparedness:  Countermeasures for Thermal Burns, GAO-12-304R 
·         Warfighter Support:  DOD Needs Strategic Outcome-Related Goals and Visibility Over Its Counter-IED Efforts, GAO-12-280 
·         Whistleblower Protection:  Actions Needed to Improve DOD's Military Whistleblower Reprisal Program, GAO-12-362 

Henley Putnam University
·         Journal of Strategic Security, Winter 2011, v. 4, no. 4
o    Rethinking Radicalization
o    Radicalization into Violent Extremism I: A Review of Social Science Theories
o    Radicalization into Violent Extremism II: A Review of Conceptual Models and Empirical Research
o    Disarming Youth Combatants: Mitigating Youth Radicalization and Violent Extremism
o    Radical Islamism and Migrant Integration in Denmark: An Empirical Inquiry
o    Radicalism within the Context of Social Movements: Processes and Types
o    Four Lessons from the Study of Fundamentalism and Psychology of Religion
o    Gangs, Terrorism, and Radicalization
o    Radicalization and the Use of Social Media

Heritage Foundation

Human Rights Watch

Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA)

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)
·         Appendix of PHRC telexes 

Institute for Security Studies (ISS)

Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU)

Institute for the Study of War
·         Iraq's Post-Withdrawal Crisis, Update 10 (February 18 to February 24, 2012) 

Inter-American Dialogue
·         Citizen Security in Latin America 

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
·         Fukushima Daiichi Status Report 

International Crisis Group

International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

International Peace Institute (IPI)

International Relations and Security Network
·         From Dictatorship to Democracy 2.0 
·         Wresting Power from the Few? 

James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy

Jamestown Foundation
·         China Brief, February 22, 2012, v. 12, no. 4 
o    China’s Persian Gulf Diplomacy Reflects Delicate Balancing Act
o    Civilian UAV Production as a Window to the PLA’s Unmanned Fleet
o    A Model Company: CETC Celebrates 10 Years of Civil-Military Integration
o    Mekong River Patrols in Full Swing but Challenges Remain

Korea Institute for National Unification

Lowy Institute

MITRE Corp

National Academies Press

National Defense University (NDU)
·         Prism, March 2012, v. 3, no. 3 
o    No More Adhocracies: Reforming the Management of Stabilization and Reconstruction Operations
o    Lost in Translation: The Challenge of Exporting Models of Civil-Military Relations
o    Taking Stock: Interagency Integration in Stability Operations
o    After 2015: The Next Security Era for Britain
o    Libya: The Transition Clock
o    Hearts, Minds, and the Barrel of a Gun: The Taliban’s Shadow Government
o    CERP in Afghanistan: Refining Military Capabilities in Development Activities
o    The Expanded Nontraditional Role of the AFP: A Reassessment
o    Who Should Lead U.S. Cybersecurity Efforts?
o    The Civilian Uplift and Unified Action: Organizing for Stability Operations in Regional Command–East
o    Libya’s Operation Odyssey Dawn: Command and Control
o    An Interview with Donald Steinberg

NATO Civil-Military Fusion Center

NATO Defense College

Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre

Observer Research Foundation

Oxford Research Group

Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life

Pew Internet & American Life Project

President’s Council of Economic Advisers

Rand

Resolve

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

Security & Defense Agenda
·         Improving Global Cyber-Governance 

Small Wars Journal
·         Co-Opting the Afghan Taleban 
·         The Quest for Legitimacy 

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)

United Kingdom Defense Committee

United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
·         Friendship Under Fire 
·         Is the Iranian Regime Rational? 
·         Libya's Floundering Transition 

White House
·         Fact Sheets on American Energy 

World Politics Review