Friday's Miscellany 04-26-2013

38 North   

·         Has Japan's DPRK Policy Reached a Dead End? 

·         Taking Stock of North Korean Rhetoric

AEI Critical Threats

·         Al Qaeda and its Affiliates in 2013

·         Gulf of Aden Security Review - April 26, 2013

·         Pakistan Security Brief - April 26, 2013

Al Jazeera Center for Studies

·         China's Diplomatic Interpretations of MiddleEast Affairs

American Security Project (ASP)

·         International Progress on Fusion Energy – How American Leadership is Slipping

Amnesty International

·         Briefing to the UN Committee against Torture [about torture in Japan] 

·         Clampdown Against Freedoms of Expression, Assembly and Association in Russia 

·         Forced Evictions in Haiti's Displacement Camps 

·         Justice for Past Abuses in Indonesia's Aceh Province 

·         Silencing Civil Society in Belarus 

·         Submission to the UN Committee against Torture [about torture in Mauritania]

Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

·         Medical Surveillance Monthly Report April 2013, v. 20, no. 4

o    Editorial: Signature Scars of the Long War

o    Absolute and Relative Morbidity Burdens Attributable to Various Illnesses and Injuries, U.S. Armed Forces, 2012

o    Hospitalizations Among Members of the Active Component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2012

o    Ambulatory Visits Among Members of the Active Component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2012

o    Surveillance Snapshot: Illness and Injury Burdens Among U.S. Military Recruit Trainees, 2012

o    Signs, Symptoms, and Ill-defined Conditions, Active Component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2000-2012

Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

·         The 2030 Architecture of Association of Southeast Asian Nations Free Trade Agreements

·         Lessons from the European Spaghetti Bowl

Atlantic Council

·         IntelBrief—Managing Africa's Youth Bulge

·         Stabilizing Afghanistan—Proposals for Improving Security, Governance, and Aid/Economic Development 

British American Security Information Council (BASIC)

·         Engaging Russia on Tactical Nuclear Weapons: Next Steps on Confidence Building

Brookings Institute

·         Building on Recent Advances in Evidence-Based Policymaking

Canadian Defense & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)

·         Why Don’t Diplomats Get the Respect They’ve Earned?

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 

·         The Great Strategic Triangle TRIANGLE

·         Islam and Politics in the New Egypt  

·         Missile Defense : Confrontation and Cooperation

·         Price of Stability in Algeria

CATO Institute

·         The Missing Science from the Draft National Assessment on Climate Change (Testimony)

·         Move to Defend—The Case Against the Constitutional Amendments Seeking to Overturn Citizens United  

·         Saving the Soul of Classical Liberalism

 Center for International Policy

·         Drones Over the Homeland; How Politics, Money and Lack of Oversight Have Sparked Drone Proliferation, and What We Can Do

Center for Nonproliferation Studies

·         Rethinking Spent Fuel Management in South Korea  

Center for Security Studies (CSS)

·         Russian Analytical Digest, 10 April 2013, No. 126 Popular Culture and Politics

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         Forging a Consensus for a Sustainable U.S.Nuclear Posture

·         Immigration Reform's 'Path to Prosperity'

·         New Foreign Policy Frontier

·         PacNet #27 - The Beting Serupai incident

·         U.S. and Iranian StrategicCompetition—Sanctions, Energy, Arms Control, and Regime Change 

·         U.S and South Korea Agree to an Extension ofthe 123 Civil Nuclear Agreement

Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation

·         The Roles of Women in Terrorism, Conflict,and Violent Extremism: Lessons for the United Nations and International Actors

Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)

·         Does Land Fragmentation Affect Farm Performance? A Case Study from Brittany

Chatham House

·         Development Assistance for Health: Critiques and Proposals for Change

·         Translating Famine Early Warning into Early Action: A Sahel Case Study

Combat Studies Institute Press

·         Closing the Security Gap: Building Irregular Security Forces 

·         From One Leader to Another 

·         Instilling Aggressiveness US Advisors and Greek Combat Leadership in the Greek Civil War, 1947-1949

·         Stabilizing the Debate between Population and Enemy-Centric Counterinsurgency Success Demands a Balanced Approach

Congress. House Armed Service Committee

·         Committee Oversight of Benghazi Attack

·         Fiscal Year 2014 Army Modernization Programs

·         The Fiscal Year 2014 National Defense Authorization Budget Request from the Department of the Army

·         National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 home page 

·         Oversight of U.S. Naval and U.S. Air ForceAcquisition Programs in the Fiscal Year 2014 National Defense Authorization Budget Request

·         The Readiness Posture of the U.S. Air Force

·         The Readiness Posture of the U.S. Navy andthe U.S. Marine Corps

·         Status of implementation of the Requirementsof the VOW Act and the Recommendations of the Presidential Veteran Employment Initiative Task Force for the DOD Transition Assistance Program -Goals, Plans,and Success (GPS)

·         Transitioning to Afghan Security Lead:Protecting Afghan Women?

Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee

·         Export Control Reform: The Agenda Ahead

·         The FY 2014 Budget Request: U.S. Foreign Assistance Priorities and Strategy

·         Islamist Extremism in Chechnya: A Threat to the U.S. Homeland?

·         Kosovo and Serbia: A Pathway to Peace

·         Meeting the Challenge of Drug-Resistant Diseases in Developing Countries

·         Natural Gas Exports: Economic and Geopolitical Opportunities

Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee

·         Cutting DHS Duplication and Wasteful Spending: Implementing Private Sector Best Practices and Watchdog Recommendations

·         Striking the Right Balance: Protecting OurNation's Critical Intrastructure from Cyber Attack and Ensuring Privacy and Civil Liberties

Congress. House. Judiciary Committee

·         The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), Part 2: Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance

Congress. House. Oversight & Government Reform Committee

·         Interim Progress Report for the Members of the House Republican Conference on the Events Surrounding the September 11,2012 Terrorist Attacks in Benghazi, Libya

·         Oversight of the Federal Government’s Procurement of Ammunition

 

Congress. House. Republican Conference

·         Members of the House Republican Conference on the Events Surrounding the September 11, 2012 Terrorist Attacks in Benghazi, Libya

Congress. House. Science, Space, and Technology Committee

·         Next Generation Computing and Big Data Analytics

·         Policy Relevant Climate Issues in Context

·         A Review of Federal Hydraulic Fracturing Research Activities

Congress. Senate. Armed Services Committee

·         Active, Guard, Reserve, and Civilian Personnel Programs

·         Inquiry into U.S. Costs and Allied Contributions to Support the U.S. Military Presence Overseas S. Rept 113-12

·         Military Construction, Environmental, and Base Closure Programs

·         Military Space Programs and Views on DoD Usage of the Electromagnetic Spectrum

·         Oversight: Department of the Army

·         Oversight: Department of the Navy

·         Proliferation Prevention Programs

·         Tactical Aircraft Programs

Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee

·         International Development Priorities in the FY 2014 Budget

·         Rebalance to Asia II: Security and Defense:Cooperation and Challenges

 

Congress. Senate. Judiciary Committee

·         The Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act, S.744

·         The Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act, S.744

·         Drone Wars: The Constitutional and Counterterrorism Implications of Targeted Killing

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

·         A Tour of the Federal Budget and Possible Changes in Budget Policy

·         What Changes in Federal Policy Might Spur Innovation?

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

·         Afghanistan's Looming Security Test

·         Domestic Intelligence and the Boston Bombings

·         The Future of U.S. Special Operations Forces

·         Issue Guide: Boston Bombings and Terrorism

Defense Science Board

·         Air Force Nuclear Enterprise Follow-On Review

Department of Defense (DOD)

·         2011 Department of Defense Health Related Behaviors Survey of Active Duty Military Personnel

·         Department of Defense Systems Engineering FY2012 Annual Report

·         DoD Directive 3000.03E, DoD Executive Agent for Non-Lethal Weapons (NLW), and NLW Policy, April 25, 2013

·         DoD Directive 5105.62, Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), April 24, 2013

·         DoD Directive 5148.11, Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Oversight (ATSD(IO)), April 24, 2013

·         DoD Instruction 4140.67, DoD Counterfeit Prevention Policy, April 26, 2013

Department of Justice Inspector General

·         Review of ATF’s Federal Firearms Licensee Inspection Program

Department of State

·         Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977–1980, Volume XIII, China

Department of the Air Force

·         Air Force Nuclear Enterprise Follow-On Review

Department of the Navy

·         CHIPS, April-June  2013, v. 31, no. 2 

o    Play the Game, Change the Game

o    Don't Get Caught Spear Phishing

o    A Night of Honor and Grace...

o    DoD's Commercial Mobil Device Implementation Plan

o    Advances in Synthetic Aperture Sonar Transform Mine Countermeasures and Undersea Warfare

o    The Department of the Navy and Defense Logistics Agency Partner to Deliver Savings

o    Navy Leaders Announce Plans for Deploying Cost-Saving Laser Technology

o    The Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstrator X-47B

East-West Center

·         Dignity in International Relations

·         The Ongoing Talibanization of Karachi

·         Pakistan’s Nuclear Labyrinth and the Future of Democratization

 

EU Institute for Security Studies

·         The American Sequester - and Us

European Policy Centre (EPC)

·         Youth Unemployment - Does the EU Care About Its Future?

Foreign Policy Research Institute

·         Twenty-first Century Cultures of War—Advantage Them

Foundation for Strategic Research

·         Africa and the Chemical Weapons Convention

·         Known and Unknowns—President Obama’s Lethal Drone Doctrine

German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

·         Large-Scale Agricultural Investments under Poor Land Governance Systems: Actors and Institutions in the Case of Zambia

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         Air Force Electronic Systems Center: Reorganization Resulted in Workforce Reassignments at Hanscom Air Force Base, but Other Possible Effects Are Not Yet Known. GAO-13-366

·         Department of Homeland Security: Opportunities Exist to Strengthen Efficiency and Effectiveness, Achieve Cost Savings, and Improve Management Functions. GAO-13-547T [testimony]    

·         Explosive Ordnance Disposal: DOD Needs Better Resource Planning and Joint Guidance to Manage the Capability. GAO-13-385

·         FEMA Reservists: Training Could Benefit from Examination of Practices at Other Agencies. GAO-13-250R

·         Missile Defense: Opportunity to Refocus on Strengthening Acquisition Management. GAO-13-432

·         Office of National Drug Control Policy: Office Could Better Identify Opportunities to Increase Program Coordination. GAO-13-333

·         Space Acquisitions: DOD Is Overcoming Long-Standing Problems, but Faces Challenges to Ensuring Its Investments Are Optimized. GAO-13-508T [testimony]

Heritage Foundation

·         Beyond the Plateau in U.S. – India Relations

·         Boston Bombing Case—Options and Restrictions

·         Congress Should Challenge the Administration’s UNESCO and U.N. Peacekeeping Budget Request

·         Counterterrorism—Heritage Foundation Recommendations

·         Impact of Obama's Budget Proposal on Defense

·         Immediate Aftermath of Boston—No Time to Stand Still

·         Master Limited Partnerships and Renewable Energy Producers

·         Promoting Economic Freedom—Key to Realizing the World Bank’s Mission

·         Steadfast Jazz 2013 and America’s Commitment to NATO

·         U.S. Must Demand Transparency andAccountability in Appointment of Top-Level U.N. Officials

Hoover Institute

·         Strategika, 2013

o    Should the United States Intervene in the Syrian Civil War?

o    U.S. Interests in Syria, Past and Present

o    The Smart and Right Thing in Syria

o    A Recipe for American Disaster

Human Rights Watch

·         "All You Can Do is Pray" : Crimes Against Humanity and Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Burma’s Arakan State 

·         Laws of Attrition: Crackdown on Russia’s Civil Society after Putin’s Return to the Presidency 

Institute for National Security  and Counterterrorism

·         Journal of National Security Law & Policy, April 2013, v. 6, no. 2

o    Train Wreck: The U.S. Violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention

o    Free Speech Aboard the Leaky Ship of State: Calibrating First Amendment Protections for Leakers of Classified Information

o    Even If It Ain’t Broke, Why Not Fix It? Three Proposed Improvements to the Uniform Code of Military Justice

o    Chutzpah

o    Educating National Security Lawyers for the Twenty-first Century: The Intersection of National Security Law and International Affairs

o    National Security Law Pedagogy and the Role of Simulations

o    The Dark Future of International Cybersecurity Regulation

o    Unknotting the Tangled Threads of Watergate Lore

Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

·         China’s Defense White Paper: An Assessment

·         China’s Defence White Paper 2013: Lessons for India

·         The Korean Imbroglio

·         LAAD Exhibition: Showcase of Brazilian Self-Reliance

·         Lessons from Somdurong Chu Incident

·         Religious Tensions in Sri Lanka

·         Tunisia's Shaky Transition

Institute for Security Studies (ISS)

·         The Evolution of Organised Crime in Africa:Towards a New Response

Institute for the Study of War

·         2013 Iraq Update #17: Iraq’s Sunni Mobilize

·         2013 Iraq Update #17b: Iraq on the Edge 

·         Al Jazeera: ISW Iraq Analyst Ahmed Ali on Violence in Iraq

·         Otherwork-Syria

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

·         Manifestoes and Political Preferences in Pakistan

Instituto Affari Internazionali (IAI)

·         Behind the Scenes of the Turkish-Israeli Breakthrough

Inter-American Dialogue

·         Americas in Motion—Looking Ahead 

International Assessment and Strategy Center

·         China’s Rapid Political and Economic Advances in Central Asia and Russia (Testimony)

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

·         The Dynamic Effect of Social and Political Instability on Output: The Role of Reforms

·         Fiscal Sustainability: A 21st Century Guide for the Perplexed

·         The Investment Technology of Foreign and Domestic Institutional Investors in an Emerging Market

·         Interest Rate Liberalization in China

·         Targets, Interest Rates, and Household Saving in Urban China

International Peace Institute (IPI)

·         New Technology and the Prevention of Violence and Conflict

·         Peace and Development in the Post-2015 Development Framework

·         Peace Operations, the African Union, and the United Nations: Toward More Effective Partnerships

·         Vali Nasr's Dispensable Nation

Iran Project

·         Strategic Options for Iran: Balancing Pressure with Diplomacy

Jamestown Foundation

·         China Brief, April 25,2013 , v. 13, no. 9

o    Fierce Debate Erupts over the Meaning of the “China Dream”

o    The 2013 Defense White Paper in Perspective

o    China’s Defense White Paper: A New Conceptual Framework for Security

o    China’s Strategic Recalibration in Burma

Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)

·         Insights and Best Practices, Joint Operations, Fourth Edition, March 2013

·         Joint Pub 1, Doctrine for the Armed Forces of the United States, 25 March 2013

Korea Institute for National Unification

·         The Kim Jong-un Regime’s “Byungjin” (ParallelDevelopment) Policy of Economy and Nuclear Weapons and the ‘April 1st Nuclearization Law’

·         North Korea’s Tension Escalation and Thereafter

Long War Journal

·         Charting the Data for US Air Strikes in Yemen, 2002 - 2013 [updated Apr21, 2013]

National Academy of Public Administration

·         The Stock Act—An Independent Review of the Impact of Providing Personally Identifiable Financial Information Online

National Defense University (NDU)

·         China's Forbearance Has Limits: Chinese Threat and Retaliation Signaling and Its Implications for a Sino-AmericanMilitary Confrontation (China Strategic Perspectives 6)

 

National Maritime Intelligence-Integration Office (NIMO)

·         NMIO Technical Bulletin, April 2013, v. 5

o    Maritime Cyber Security

o    A Global Approach to Regional Challenges

o    The Hunt for ‘Dark Targets’: Global Maritime Domain Awareness Space-Based Radar and Automatic Identification System

o    Coastal Surveillance System

o    Maritime Domain Awareness Using Software Agents

o    Partners in Prevention: Public/Private: Partnerships for Global Supply Chain Security

National Security Archive

·         China May Have Helped Pakistan Nuclear Weapons Design, Newly Declassified Intelligence Indicates

·         National Security Agency Tasked withTargeting Adversaries' Computers for Attack Since Early 1997, According to Declassified Document

NATO Civil-Military Fusion Center

·         Afghanistan Weekly Review [latest update Apr 23, 2013]

Natural Resources Defense Council

·         From Mutual Assured Destruction to Mutual Assured Stability—Exploring a New Comprehensive Framework for U.S. and Russian Nuclear Arms Reductions 

Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre

·         Justice, Truth and Reparation in the Colombian Peace Process

·         Turkish and Iranian Interests and Policies in the South Caucasus

Observer Research Foundation

·         Beijing at Sea 

·         Boston Bombings: The Challenges Ahead for theUS Counter-terrorism Policy

·         China and Cyberspace

Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency

·         5 Years of the 13th National Assembly of Pakistan: March 17, 2008 - March 16, 2013 [scorecard]

Peace Research Institute Oslo

·         Aiming for Control: The Need to Include Ammunition in the Arms Trade Treaty 

·         The Persian Gulf and Afghanistan: Iran and Saudi Arabia's Rivalry Projected

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

·         Payoff from the World Trade Agenda 2013

Pew Internet & American Life Project

·         Civic Engagement in the Digital Age

Pew Research Center

·         Public Divided Over North Korea’s Intentions, Capability

Rand

·         Maximizing Throughput at Soft Airfields

·         Sea Power and American Interests in the Western Pacific

·         Strengthening Strategic Planning and Management at DHS [testimony]

·         Virtual Collaboration for a Distributed Enterprise

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

·         Indonesia’s APEC Chairmanship of 2013: Key Priorities and Future Agenda

Small Wars Journal

·         An Age of Instability

·         A Ball of Mirrors: Iraq’s Lessons for Future Counterinsurgencies

·         Interoperability: Merging the Organizational Cultures of Special Forces and the Infantry

·         Promoting Cross-Cultural Competence inIntelligence Professionals

·         So, You’re Going to be an Advisor? Ten Easy to Follow Recommendations to Help You Become an Effective Military Advisor

·         Succeeding in Afghanistan

·         Under the Veil of Discourse: A Critical Analysis of Statements by Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri in the Contextof Contemporary Political Dynamics

Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

·         Afghanistan’s National Power Utility:Commercialization Efforts Challenged by Expiring Subsidy and Poor USFOR-A and USAID Project Management

·         Forward Operating Base Salerno: Inadequate Planning Resulted in $5 Million Spent for Unused Incinerators and the ContinuedUse of Potentially Hazardous Open-Air Burn Pit Operations

State Department

·         Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2012

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

·         The 15 countries with the Highest Military Expenditure in 2012

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)

·         Sharing Power? Prospects for a U.S.Concert-Balance Strategy

Transnational Institute

·         Land Concentration, Land Grabbing and People’s Struggles in Europe

Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC)

·         Terrorism/National Internal Security Prosecutions for February 2013

UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

·         Assessment Guide to the Criminal Justice Response to the Smuggling of Migrants

US Institute of Peace (USIP)

·         Empowering the Pakistan Police

·         Engaging Men in Women’s Rights and Empowerment in South Asia and the Middle East

·         What’s Next for Security in the Niger Delta?

Verizon RISK Team

·         2013 Data Breach Investigations Report

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         An Agenda for Secretary Hagel in Egypt

·         Changing the Guard at the Saudi Defense Ministry

·         China's Middle East Footprint

·         Debating Next Steps on Iran

·         The Emir of Qatar's Oval Office Meeting

·         Intervention Escalation

·         Investigating Alleged Chemical Weapons Use in Syria: Technical and Political Challenges

·         Jordan's King Abdullah Comes to Washington

·         The Syrian Regime's Use of Surface-to-Surface Missiles

·         The Thin Red Line: Is Iran Outmaneuvering the U.S. and Israel?

White House

·         National Drug Control Strategy 2013

·         National Ocean Policy Implementation Plan

·         National Strategy for Civil Earth Observations

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

·         Arab Uprisings and Mass Politics—Possibilities, Constraints, and Uncertainty