Sunday, October 28, 2012

Friday's Miscellany 10-26-2012


American Enterprise Institute


·         Why We Must Win in Afghanistan 
 
Amnesty International

 
Arms Control Association

 
Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)



 Atlantic Council




 

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

 
Brookings Institution


·         Losing Syria (And How to Avoid It)  



 

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace


Center for a New American Strategy (CNAS)


·         The Pentagon's New Cyber Strategy [interview] 



 
Center for American Progress (CAP)

·         Federal Judicial Emergencies

Center for Security Studies (CSS)



 
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)



·         Hemisphere Insider: Volume II, Issue 27 - October 26,2012



·         Patterns of Violence in Iraq 


 

Central Asia Program - The Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

 
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)


 Chatham House


CNA



Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS)

·         CNSSD no. 506 - National Directive to Implement Public Key Infrastructure for the Protection of Systems Operating on Secret Level Networks


Congressional Budget Office (CBO)



 Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)



·         Waiting on Iran Nuclear Talks
 

Cyber Security Policy and Research Institute

 

Deloitte-NASCIO


 Department of Defense (DOD)

·         DoD Directive 5105.65, Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), October 26, 2012  


Department of State



Energy Information Administration (EIA)


·         Monthly Energy Review - October 2012   


Enough Project




EU Non-Proliferation Consortium



European Policy Centre (EPC)




·         Ukraine: The Moment of Truth

 Foreign Policy

·         The Backfire in Baghdad

·         Clicking This Will Make You Stupider [2012 foreign policy ads]

·         Jerks vs. Waterboarders

·         Me and My Censor [China]

·         The Not-So-Funny Papers


Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)




FRIDE




Fridtjof Nansen Institute



German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)



The German Marshall Fund of the United States





Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         Critical Infrastructure Protection: An Implementation Strategy Could Advance DHS's Coordination of Resilience Efforts across Ports and Other Infrastructure. GAO-13-11

·         Defense Acquisitions: Future Aerostat and Airship Investment Decisions Drive Oversight and Coordination Needs. GAO-13-81

·         Homeland Defense: DOD Needs to Address Gaps in Homeland Defense and Civil Support Guidance. GAO-13-128

·         Religious Compensatory Time: Office of Personnel Management Action Needed to Clarify Policies for Agencies. GAO-13-96

 Harvard Law School

·         National Security Journal, 2012, v. 3, no.2 






Heritage Foundation






Institute Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA)





Institute of National Security Studies (Israel)

 
Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)





Institute for Social Policy and Understanding



Institute for the Study of War




·         Weekly Iraq Update #43, October 17, 2012-October 24, 2012

 Instituto Affari Internazionali (IAI)


International Crisis Group

·         Burundi: Bye-bye Arusha?

 International Monetary Fund (IMF)



·         Financial Spillovers to Chile


 International Relations and Security Network (ISN)



 Joint Special Operations University (JSOU)



Korea Institute for National Unification



 Long War Journal

·         Charting the Data for US Airstrikes in Pakistan, 2004 - 2012 [updated Oct 24, 2012]

·         Charting the Data for US Air Strikes in Yemen, 2002 - 2012 [updated Oct 28, 2012]

·         Green-on-Blue Attacks in Afghanistan: The Data [updated Oct 25, 2012]


Marine Corps Intelligence Association (MCIA)

·         INTSUM Magazine, Spring/Summer 2012, v. 24, no. 1& 2

o    Special: Intell in Korea: Strategic to Marine Infantry Battalion Level

o    "The Ghost Armies of Manchuria”

o    Next War: Korea Wargame

o    “Battalion Intell Functioning in Korea”


National Academies Press




National Bureau of Asian Research




National Security Archive




NATO Civil-Military Fusion Center

·         Afghanistan Weekly Review [latest update Oct 23, 2012]

 Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability



Overseas Development Institute (ODI)



Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI)

·         Peace & Stability Operations Journal Online, 2012, v. 3, no. 1

o    No Will, No Way: Women, Peace, and Security in Peacekeeping Operations

o    Female Engagement Teams: An Enduring Requirement with a Rocky Start

o    Sexual Violence in Armed Conflicts: A Conspiracy of Silence

o    "Improving the Interactions between Child Soldiers and Security Forces: The Roméo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative, Experiences from the Field

o    Gender Integration in Action

o    Sex and Age Disaggregated Data: Solution to Lack of Gender Mainstreaming in Food Aid Projects in Complex Emergencies

Pew Global Attitudes Project

·         Global IQ Quiz


Pew Internet and American Life Project


 Pew Research Center for the People & the Press


 Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM)



Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)



 Rand


 Small Wars Journal







 Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

·         SIGAR-Safety-Alert 12-1 SIGAR Alert Letter to U.S. Commanders on Threat to U.S. Forces from Lack of Culvert Denial Systems

·         SIGAR-Safety-Alert 12-2 SIGAR Letter to USAID on Fraud Investigation Concerning $498 Million Contract for Road Projects 

·         SIGAR-Investigative Report 12-3 SIGAR Letter Calls for Immediate Action to Prevent Entities and Individuals Supporting the Insurgency from Obtaining Contracts, Grants and Cooperative Agreements

·         SIGAR-Inspection 12-02 Kunduz Ana Garrison: Army Corps of Engineers Released Dyncorp of all Contractual Obligations Despite Poor Performance and Structural Failures


Stanley Foundation


 Stimson Center

·         Diplomacy In A Time Of Scarcity

 Transnational Institute

·         The Global Land Grab: A Primer



 US International Trade Commission (USITC)


 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         Hezbollah under Pressure



·         Qatar's Emir Visits Gaza



 World Public Opinion.org