Monday, April 2, 2018

Friday's Miscellany 03-30-2018


38 North

Air University Press

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

American Enterprise Institute

Amnesty International

Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)
·         Medical Surveillance Monthly Report, March  2018, v. 5, no. 3
o    Mental health disorders and mental health problems, active component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2007–2016
o    Incidence rates of diagnoses of cardiovascular diseases and associated risk factors, active component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2007–2016
o    Herpes zoster, active component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2000–2016

Army Center of Military History
·         Army History Magazine, Spring 2018, no. 107
o    "The Coming of Modern War": The Coalition War in North Burma, 1944
o    Opening Moves: Battles North and West of Saigon

Atlantic Council

Australian Department of Defence
·         Australian Defence Force Journal, March 2018, no. 204
o    My Fifth Generation
o    Contesting ideas: the importance of encouraging critical discussion to the future of Australian air power
o    Air power in the 21st century: enduring trends and  uncertain futures
o    Fifth-generation air warfare
o    Is relying solely on smart weapons a smart approach?
o    Open system architectures for the ADF: opportunities and challenges
o    The current crisis in the Persian Gulf in the context of hybrid warfare
o    Bridging the gap between cyber strategy and operations: a missing layer of policy
o    Australia’s petroleum supply and its implications for the ADF

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)
·         Counterterrorism Yearbook 2018  

Baker Institute for Public Policy

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies
·         Hamas Is an Abysmal Failure

Bipartisan Policy Center

Blair Institute for Global Change

Brookings

Bruegel

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Carnegie Middle East Center

Cato Institute

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

Center for Global Development

Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies (ORSAM)

Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

Center for Security Studies (CSS)
·         Russian Analytic Digest, No. 217: Russian Presidential Elections

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
·         PacNet #25 - On Strengthening US-Taiwan Relations
·         PacNet #24 - With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
·         PacNet #23 - The Coming Crisis in US-China Relations
·         A Tale of Three Coal Markets

Center for the Study of Intelligence (CSI)

Center on Global Energy Policy

Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

Chatham House
·         Yemen’s Southern Powder Keg

College of Europe

Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)
·         CTC Sentinel, March  2018, v. 11, no. 3
o    The Terrorist Calculus in Kidnapping Girls in Nigeria: Cases from Chibok and Dapchi
o    A View from the CT Foxhole: Lieutenant Colonel Kent Solheim, Commander, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group
o    Black Banners in Somalia: The State of al-Shabaab’s Territorial Insurgency and the Specter of the Islamic State
o    Ansaroul Islam and the Growing Terrorist Insurgency in Burkina Faso
o    Islamic State Chemical Weapons: A Case Contained by its Context?

Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)

Conflict Armament Research

Defense Science Board (DSB)

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

Department of Veterans Affairs, Inspector General

East-West Center
·         Strategic Overview of Oceania

Egmont Institute

Enough Project

European Policy Center

French Institute of International Relations (Institut Français des Relations Internationales)

German Development Institute

German Marshall Fund of the United States

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
·         GAO-18-101 Defense Infrastructure: Action Needed to Increase the Reliability of Construction Cost Estimates
·         GAO-18-314 Border Security: Actions Needed to Strengthen Performance Management and Planning for Expansion of DHS's Visa Security Program [Reissued with Revisions Mar. 29, 2018]
·         GAO-18-142SP Technology Assessment: Artificial Intelligence: Emerging Opportunities, Challenges, and Implications
·         GAO-18-314 Border Security: Actions Needed to Strengthen Performance Management and Planning for Expansion of DHS's Visa Security Program
·         GAO-18-330 DOD Contracted Services: Long-Standing Issues Remain about Using Inventory for Management Decisions
·         GAO-18-350 Ebola Recovery: USAID Has Initiated or Completed Most Projects, but a Complete Project Inventory Is Still Needed for Evaluating Its Efforts
·         GAO-18-361 Defense Health Care: TRICARE Surveys Indicate Nonenrolled Beneficiaries' Access to Care Has Generally Improved
·         GAO-18-388 2017 Lobbying Disclosure: Observations on Lobbyists' Compliance with Disclosure Requirements

Heritage Foundation

Hudson Institute

Human Rights Watch

Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)
·         Africa Watch, v. 18, March 29
o    Tanzania:  Crackdown on Dissent Continues
o    Growing Regional Conflict Highlights Trend in Democratic Republic of the Congo

Institute for Science and International Security

Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP)

Institute for Strategic Dialogue 

Institute for Strategic, Political, Security and Economic Consultancy (ISPSW)

Institute for the Study of War
·         Regime Gains in Damascus, Syria: March 12 - 26, 2018

Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

Italian Institute for International Political Studies (Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale)

Jamestown Foundation
·         China Brief, v. 18, no. 5, March 23, 2018
o    At China’s ‘Two Sessions’, Xi Jinping Leaves His Mark on the Party State
o    In a Fortnight: The End of the ‘Singapore Model’
o    Lost in the Shuffle: China’s New, Overlooked Financial Regulatory Commission
o    China’s New Counterintelligence “Trinity” and Its Implications for Foreign Business
o    The Belt and Road Initiative: Is China Putting Its Money Where its Mouth Is?

Marine Corps History Division

Martens Centre for European Studies

Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

Mitchell Institute

Modern War Institute (MWI)

National Academies Press

National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces
·         Canadian Military Journal, 2017, v. 18, no.2
o    Scholars and Soldiers: Some Reflections on Military Academe
o    Modelling Command from a Balanced Perspective
o    Canadian Search and Rescue Puzzle: The Missing Pieces
o    Decision Making in the Capability Development Process: Organizational Issues within the Department of National Defence
o    Brotherhood of the Damned: Shabqadar, Pakistan and the (Re) Making of the Taliban in Afghanistan
o    An Exposition of the Links between Resilience, Ethics, and Leadership
o    Fundamentalist Religious Discourse in the Process of Radicalization to Violence
o    Canada and Peace Operations: Walking Back, Looking Forward

National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS)

Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)
·         ICD 107 - Civil Liberties, Privacy, and Transparency

Oxford Research Group

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

Pew Research Center

Polish Institute of International Affairs

PONARS Eurasia

Project 2049 Institute

RAND

Royal Australian Air Force

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
·         China and Global Norms
·         Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis, March 2018, v. 10, no. 3 
o    Threat of Urban Jihadism in South Asia
o    Using Theology to Legitimise Jihadist Radicalism
o    Analysing Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis


Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA

Small Wars Journal
·         Douhet, Brodie, & Cyberspace

South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

Spearhead Research
·         Pakistan-US: Developing Ties

Stanley Foundation

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)

Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC)

United Kingdom Parliament, House of Commons
·         Chemical Weapons Convention
·         National Security and Russia
·         Somalia: March 2018 Update

US Chamber of Commerce

US Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM)

US  Institute for Peace (USIP)
·         Devolution of Power in Pakistan

US International Trade Commission (USITC)
·         Journal of International Commerce and Economics 2018

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Wilson Center