greta's gouge: Friday's Miscellany 11-02-2012

· Department of Homeland Security: Taking Further Action to Better Determine Causes of Morale Problems Would Assist in Targeting Action Plans. GAO-12-940

· Food Safety: FDA Can Better Oversee Food Imports by Assessing and Leveraging Other Countries' Oversight Resources. GAO-12-933

· Homeland Security: Civil Air Patrol Involved in Certain Missions, but DHS Should Assess the Benefits of Further Involvement. GAO-13-56

Government of Canada

· Friction along the Sahelian Fault Line: Azawad and Ethnic Conflictin Northern Mali

Households in Conflict Network

· Nutrition, Governance and Violence: A Framework for the Analysisof Resilience and Vulnerability to Food Insecurity in Contexts of ViolentConflict

Human Rights Watch

· Schools as Battlegrounds: Protecting Students, Teachers, andSchools from Attack

Infinity Journal

· Infinity Journal, v. 2, no. 4 Fall 2012

o Whence Derives Predictability in Strategy?

o Air-Sea Battle as a Military Contribution to Strategy Development

o Constitutional Stability versus Strategic Efficiency: Strategic Dialogue in Contemporary Conflict

o Special Operations and Strategies of Attrition

o Way of War or the Latest “Fad”? A critique of AirSea Battle

o The Making of Strategy and the Junior Coalition Partner: Australia and the 2003 Iraq War

Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA)

· Net Security Provider: India’s Out-of-Area Contingency Operations

· UNASUR and Security in South America

· Who Started the Fighting---- The Sequel

Institute for Security Studies

· From AMIB to AMISOM The Need for Institutional and Mandate Clarityin APSA

· Professionalism and the South African Police Service

Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU)

· Beyond the Stereotype: The Shared Story of Muslims and Mormons inAmerica

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)

· North Korea’s Estimated Stocks of Plutonium and Weapon-GradeUranium

Institute for the Understanding of War

· Afghanistan: Green-on-Blue Attacks in Context

· Identifying Rebel Groups in Syria: An Analytical Methodology

· Weekly Iraq Update #44 - October 24, 2012-November 2, 2012

Intelligence Community

· Intel-Cyclopedia: A Guide to Sources of Information forIntelligence Community

Inter-University Center for Terrorism Studies

· Terrorism: An Electronic Journal and Knowledge Base, August 2012, v. 1, no. 1

o Terrorism in the Mind of the Age

o How to Defeat Al Qaeda

o A Narrative of Heroes: In the Head of the Contemporary Jihadist

o Performative violence? The Multitude of Lone Wolf Terrorism

International Centre for the Study of Radicalization (ICSR)

· Al-Qaeda at the Crossroads: How the Terror Group is Responding tothe Loss of its Leaders and the Arab Spring

International Crisis Group

· CrisisWatch, N°111, November 1, 2012

International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

· Glimmer of Hope in Iran Nuclear Gloom?

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

· The Effectiveness of Monetary Policy Transmission Under CapitalInflows: Evidence from Asia

· The Evolution of Asian Financial Linkages: Key Determinants andthe Role of Policy

· Exogenous Shocks and Growth Crises in Low-Income Countries: AVulnerability

· Fiscal Transparency, Accountability, and Risk Summary

· Performance of Publicly Listed Chilean Firms During the 2008–09Global Financial Crisis

· Proposal to Distribute Remaining Windfall Gold Sales Profits andStrategy to Make the Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust Sustainable

· Review of Facilities for Low-Income Countries

· Review of Facilities for Low-Income Countries - Supplement 1Summary

Jamestown Foundation

· Terrorism Monitor, v. 10, no. 20, November 2, 2012

o Boko Haram’s Growing Presence in Niger

o What is Hezbollah's Role in the Syrian Crisis?

o Kenya’s Coast Province and the Mombasa Republican Council: Islamists, Separatists or Political Pawns?

Lexington Institute

· Reforming Cuban Agriculture: Unfinished Business

National Academies Press

· Adapting Agricultural Extension to Peacebuilding: Report of aWorkshop by the National Academy of Engineering and the United States Instituteof Peace: Roundtable on Technology, Science, and Peacebuilding

· Assuring the U.S. Department of Defense a Strong Science,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Workforce

· The New Global Ecosystem in Advanced Computing: Implications forU.S. Competitiveness and National Security

National Defense University Press

· Joint Force Quarterly (JFQ), October 2012, no. 67

o Readiness and Resiliency Go Hand in Hand

o Going Farther by Going Together: Building Partner Capacity in Africa

o Security Force Assistance in a Time of Austerity

o PME and Online Education in the Air Force: Raising the Game

o Manage or Educate: Fulfilling the Purpose of Joint Professional Military Education

o Covert Action: Title 10, Title 50, and the Chain of Command

o Stuxnet, Schmitt Analysis, and the Cyber "Use-of-Force" Debate

o A Focus on Costs, Not Benefits, Dampens Koreans' Desire for Reunification

o Delivering Air Sea Battle

o Improving U.S. Posture in the Arctic

o Space and the Joint Fight

o The Regional Special Operations Headquarters: Franchising the NATO Model as a Hedge in Lean Times

o No One at the Controls: Legal Implications of Fully Autonomous Targeting

o Any Sensor, Any Shooter: Toward an Aegis BMD Global Enterprise

o Responsive Close Air Support

o Bridging the Gap from Coordination to Intergration

NATO Civil-Military Fusion Center

· Afghanistan Weekly Review [latest update Oct 30, 2012]

· The Sustainability of Energy Supplies in Afghanistan

Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability

· Promoting Security in Northeast Asia: A New Approach

Norwegian Institute of International Affairs

· Protecting Civilians While Fighting a War in Somalia – DrawingLessons from Afghanistan

Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre

· Governments’ and Security Actors’ Dynamics in Transitions toDemocracy

· The International Human Rights Movement: A History

Office of Personnel Management (OPM)

· 2012 Status of Telework in the Federal Government

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (Mission in Kosovo)

· An Assessment of the Voluntary Returns Process in Kosovo

Pew Global Research Center

· American, Chinese Publics Increasingly Wary of the Other

Pew Internet & American Life Project

· How Teens Do Research in the Digital World

Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM)

· China’s Response to the United States’ Asia–Pacific Strategy

Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)

· Are No-Ponzi Game and Transversality Conditions Relevant forPublic Debt? A Keynesian Appraisal

· The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Capitalism

· The Wealth-Power Connection

· The Working Poor: A Booming Demographic

Project 2049 Institute

· Countering Chinese Cyber Operations—Opportunities and Challengesfor U.S. Interests

Quaker United Nations Office

· Diverting the Flow: Cooperation over International Water Resources

Rand

· Libya's Post-Qaddafi Transition: The Nation-Building Challenge

· Occupational Burnout and Retention of Air Force Distributed CommonGround System (DCGS) Intelligence Personnel

· "Over Not Through": The Search for a Strong, UnifiedCulture for America's Airmen

· A Strategy-Based Framework for Accommodating Reductions in theDefense Budget

Refugees International

· Rohingya in Bangladesh—Maintaining the Status Quo; Squandering aRare Opportunity

· Rohingya in Burma—Spotlight on Current Crisis Offers Opportunityfor Progress

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

· A’ the Blue Bonnets—Defending an Independent Scotland

· Problem Deferred? NATONon-Strategic Nuclear Weapons after Chicago

Small Wars Journal

· Iraq in the Middle: Conclusion

· Rebalancing the US Military for 21st Century Threats: An Interviewwith Janine Davidson

· The Russian Counterinsurgency Operation in Chechnya Part 1:Winning the Battle, Losing the War, 1994 – 1996

· The Russian Counterinsurgency Operation in Chechnya Part 2:Success, But at What Cost? 1999 – 2004

· Why Arresting “El Chapo” Might Be a Bad Thing

Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

· 17th Quarterly Report to Congress (October 30, 2012)

· SIGAR-Audit 13-1 Afghan National Security Forces Facilities: Concerns with Funding, Oversight, and Sustainability for Operations and Maintenance

· SIGAR-Inspection 13-03 Gamberi Afghan National Army Garrison: Site Grading and Infrastructure Maintenance Problems Put Facilities at Risk

· SIGAR-Inspection 13-02 Wardak Province National Police Training Center: Contract Requirements Generally Met, but Deficiencies and Maintenance Issues Need to be Addressed

· SIGAR-Inspection 13-01 Kunduz ANA Garrison: Army Corps of Engineers Released DynCorp of All Contractual Obligations despite Poor Performance and Structural Failures

Stanford IPS/MPP Practicum Project

· Homegrown Violent Extremism and Military Targets

· Sunni Militancy in India: An Analytical Atlas

Stanley Foundation

· Domestic Constraints on Global Cooperation

· Effective and Sustainable Global Nuclear Security: Looking Beyondthe Horizon

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)

· Beyond the Battlefield: Institutional Army TransformationFollowing Victory in Iraq

· How Nation-States Craft National Security Strategy Documents

· Russia's Homegrown Insurgency: Jihad in the North Caucasus

· State-Building Challenges in a Post-Revolution Libya

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