Monday, August 17, 2015

Friday's Miscellany 08-14-2015



38 North
·         North Korea’s New Propagandist? 

Air Combat Command (ACC)

Amnesty International

Barcelona Centre for International Affairs

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
·         The Crisis of the Arab State 

Berkman Center on Internet & Society

Brookings

Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)
·         China’s Merchant Marine 

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
·         Korea Chair Monitor, 2015, v. 3, no. 16 
·         PacNet #47 - Australia’s New Defense White Paper Likely to Highlight Regional Challenges and a Stiffened Security Resolve 
·         PacNet #48 - A Joint Strategy for Pacifying the South China Sea 
·         PacNet #49 - Kim Jong Un Planting Landmines 

Centre for Conflict Resolution

Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies

Centre for Security Governance
·         Is Peacebuilding Dying? 

Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
·         Dynamic Scoring at CBO 

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
·         Global Efforts to Eradicate Polio 

Danish Institute for International Studies (Dansk Institut for Internationale Studier)

Department of State
·         Remarks at Flag Raising Ceremony [US Embassy, Havana, Cuba] 

Department of the Army
·         ATP 3-11.41, Multi-Service Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for Chemical , Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Consequence Management Operations 
·         ATP 4-32.16, Multi-Service Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for Explosive Ordnance Disposal 

East-West Center

Enough Project

European Leadership Network (ELN)
·         Anatomy of a NATO Exercise 
·         Anatomy of a Russian Exercise 

European Parliamentary Research Service

German Development Institute

German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
·         Defense Contracts: DOD's Requests for Information from Contractors to Assess Prices. GAO-15-680 
·         Electronic Health Records: Outcome-Oriented Metrics and Goals Needed to Gauge DOD's and VA's Progress in Achieving Interoperability. GAO-15-530 
·         Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle: The Air Force Needs to Adopt an Incremental Approach to Future Acquisition Planning to Enable Incorporation of Lessons Learned. GAO-15-623 
·         Immigrant Investor Program: Additional Actions Needed to Better Assess Fraud Risks and Report Economic Benefits. GAO-15-696 
·         Southeast Asia: Trends in U.S. and Chinese Economic Engagement. GAO-15-724 

Heritage Foundation

Human Rights Watch

Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

Information Sharing Environment (ISE)

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)

Institute for Security Studies (ISS)

Institute for the Study of War
·         Iraq Situation Report:
·         August 7 - 11, 2015 
·         August 12 - 13, 2015 
·         ISIS Sanctuary: August 13, 2015 
·         Ukraine Crisis Update: August 12, 2015 

Institute of International Relations

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
·         Towards the Closure of Guantanamo 

International Crisis Group
·         Sri Lanka Between Elections 

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Konrad Adenauer Stiftung)
·         Obama’s Foreign Policy Legacy 

Korea Institute for National Unification

Lexington Institute

Long War Journal
·         Charting the Data for US Air Strikes in Yemen, 2002 - 2015 [updated August 14, 2015

Manhattan Institute

Migration Policy Institute

National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)

National Security Agency Inspector General

National Security Network (NSN)

NATO Defense College
·         Vox Collegli Magazine, 2015,  v. 11 
o    'Support and In¬fluence': A Strategy of Choice for the 21st century
o    Alarming for Neighbours and Domestic Opposition: The New Russian Military Doctrine
o    Civil-military Interaction — a Bridge Too Far for NATO?
o    NATO and New Ways of Warfare: Defeating Hybrid Threats

Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability

Oxford Research Group

Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency

Pew Research Center U.S. Politics & Policy

Polish Institute of International Affairs

President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)

Project 2049 Institute

Rand

Research and Fatwa Department of the Islamic State
·         Questions and Answers on Taking Captives and Slaves [English translation] 

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

Small Wars Journal
·         ISIS and the Sex Factor 

Stanley Foundation

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)

Union of Concerned Scientists

US Institute of Peace (USIP)

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
·         Iran's Shifting Nuclear Narratives 
·         Iran Debates the IAEA Roadmap 

Wilson Center
·         Prelude to the Euromissile Crisis 
·         Ukraine and Soviet Nuclear History