greta's gouge: Friday's Miscellany 08-16-2019

· DODIG 2019-110 Evaluation of U.S. and Coalition Efforts to Train, Advise, Assist, and Equip Afghan Tactical Air Coordinators, Air Liaison Officers, and Afghan Air Targeting Officers [redacted]

· Lead Inspector General for Operation Pacific Eagle-Philippines I Quarterly Report to the United States Congress

· Report of Investigation John E. Hyten General U.S. Air Force [redacted]

Department of State Inspector General

· ISP-I-19-23 Review of the Effects of the Department of State Hiring Freeze

· Lead Inspector General for Operation Pacific Eagle-Philippines | Quarterly Report to the United States Congress | April 1, 2019 – June 30, 2019

Dudley Knox Library

· Lone Wolf Terrorism - A Brief Bibliography [Updated August 2019]

East West Center

· Joko Widodo’s Re-Election and Indonesia’s Domestically Anchored Foreign Policy

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

· National Mitigation Investment Strategy: Mitigation Framework Leadership Group

Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

· Transatlantic Intelligence Ties Remain Strong: Insulated against Political Turmoil

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

· Insurgents and the Flip Side of Special Operations

· Official List or Blacklist? The UK’s Proposed National Security Block on IPOs and Bonds

German Council on Foreign Relations (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik e. V.)

· The Unraveling of the Shanghai “Deal”

German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

· Bringing Regional Politics to the Study of Security Sector Reform:Army Reform in Sierra Leone and Iraq

German Marshall Fund of the United States

· Avoiding the Band-Aid Effect in Institutional Responses to Disinformation and Hybrid Threat

· Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and the Future of Online Speech

Global Disinformation Index (GDI)

· Adversarial Narratives: A New Model for Disinformation

· Cutting the Funding of Disinformation: The Ad-Tech Solution

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

· Defense Acquisition Workforce: DOD Increased Use of Human Capital Flexibilities but Could Improve Monitoring GAO-19-509

· Defense Travel: DOD Should Strengthen Its Ongoing Actions to Reduce Improper Travel Payments GAO-19-530

· Export-Import Bank: Status of End-Use Monitoring of Dual-Use Exports as of August 2019 GAO-19-656R

· Future Warfare: Army Is Preparing for Cyber and Electronic Warfare Threats, but Needs to Fully Assess the Staffing, Equipping, and Training of New Organizations GAO-19-570

· Security Assistance: U.S. Agencies Should Improve Oversight of Human Rights Training for Foreign Security Forces GAO-19-554

Heritage Foundation

· Making the Case for a New Round of BRAC

Hoover Institution

· Policy Uncertainty in Japan

Human Rights Watch

· “They Are Making Us into Slaves, Not Educating Us”: How Indefinite Conscription Restricts Young People’s Rights, Access to Education in Eritrea

Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT)

· Diversity in Cyber with Devon Bryan, CISO, Federal Reserve

Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (ISDA)

· Makran Gateways: A Strategic Reference for Gwadar and Chabahar

· Pakistan’s Foreign Policy: Trends and Challenges

Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

· Path to Improving Data Science for Materials in Extreme Environments

Institute for National Security Studies (INSS - Israel)

· Is a New Wind Blowing through the State Comptroller's Office?

· Israel-China Relations: Opportunities and Challenges

Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP)

· Hong Kong’s Summer of Rage

Institute for the Study of War

· Afghanistan's Warlords Prepare for Civil War

· Russia in Review: Global Military Ties

Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

· Assessing the Relative Importance of Causal Factors

· Crises in Variegated Capitalism, Co-produced, Hydro-Social Impacts

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

· Bangladesh: Growth at the Cost of the Environment?

· A Chinese Perspective

· India Amends Article 370 – A Constitutional Perspective

· India’s Kashmir Strategy under the Afghan Shadow

· The Kashmiri Perspective

· South Asia Growth Prospects Amid Global Uncertainty

· What, Why and How?

· Why the BJP Could Change the Status of Jammu and Kashmir in One Stroke

International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

· The Caliphate’s Women and Children – What Role can the Family Courts play? (Part 1)

International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR)

· Polemical and Fratricidal Jihadists: A Historical Examination of Debates, Contestation and Infighting Within the Sunni Jihadi Movement

International Crisis Group

· Calming the Restless Pacific: Violence and Crime on Colombia’s Coast

Intsights

· The Dark Side of Russia: How New Internet Laws and NationalismFuel Russian Cybercrime

Jamestown Foundation

· China Brief, August 14, 2019, v. 19, no. 15

o Will Xi Jinping Deploy the PLA Garrison to Quell Hong Kong's "Turmoil"?

o The Legacy of Li Peng in Chinese Politics

o China's Future Naval Base in Cambodia and the Implications for India

o The Chinese Military Reforms and Transforms in the "New Era"

o Assessing Mental Health Challenges in the People’s Liberation Army, Part 2: Physical Operational Environments and Their Impacts on PLA Service Members

Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Konrad Adenauer Stiftung

· Panorama Trade and Economic Connectivity in the Age of Uncertainty

Middle East Institute (MEI)

· The Future Structure of the Yemeni State

Migration Policy Institute

· How Does Immigration Fit into the Future of the U.S. Labor Market?

· Immigration and the U.S. Labor Market: A Look Ahead

· Rethinking U.S. Immigration Policy: New Realities Call for New Answers

National Bureau of Asian Research

· Competition and Cooperation in the South Pacific

National Security Archive

· Top Secret Chernobyl: The Nuclear Disaster through the Eyes of the Soviet Politburo, KGB, and U.S. Intelligence

NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence

· Trends and Developments in the Malicious Use of Social Media

New America Foundation

· Centering Civil Rights in the Privacy Debate

Observer Research Foundation

· India’s Governance Challenges: Setting an Agenda tor the NewGovernment

· Making India’s Coastal Infrastructure Climate-Resilient: Challenges and Opportunities

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)

· Annual Bulletin on Anti-Discrimination 2018

· Preventing and Addressing Sexual and Gender-based Violence inPlaces of Deprivation of Liberty: Standards, Approaches and Examples from the OSCE Region

Peace Research Institute of Frankfurt (PRIF/HSFK)

· A Humanitarian Milestone? NATO’s 1999 Intervention in Kosovo and Trends in Military Responses to Mass Violence

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

· China, Like the US, Faces Challenges in Achieving Inclusive GrowthThrough Manufacturing

· Trump's Fall 2019 China Tariff Plan: Five Things You Need to Know

Pew Research Center Global Attitudes & Trends

· U.S. Views of China Turn Sharply Negative Amid Trade Tensions

Pew Research Center U.S. Politics & Policy

· Most Democrats Are Excited by ‘Several’ 2020 Candidates – Not Just Their Top Choice

Policy Exchange

· Rekindling British Policing: A 10-Point Plan for Revival

RAND

· Assessing the Use of Data Analytics in Department of Defense Acquisition

· Assessing Department of Defense Use of Data Analytics and Enabling Data Management to Improve Acquisition Outcomes

· Forensic DNA Surveillance Tool

· Forensic Familial and Moderate Stringency DNA Searches: Policies and Practices in the United States, England, and Wales

· The Synthetic Opioid Surge in the United States: Insights from Mortality and Seizure Data

Royal Australian Air Force Air Power Development Centre

· Designing for the Future Force: Informing the Debate on the Future Structure of the Royal Australian Air Force

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

· Balancing Sino-US Tight Rope: Role of ‘Smart Power’

· Cybercrime: Financing Terrorism in Indonesia

· India’s Kashmir Move: More Than Meets the Eye?

· South India: The Islamist Connection

Small Wars Journal

· Adding Strategic Nonviolence to the Unconventional Warfare Doctrine

· Assessment of French Intervention in the Sahel Region, 2013-2019

· Deterring and Defeating Chinese Neo-Imperialism

· The Elephant vs. The Whale: Bringing National Forces to Bear During the Second Peloponnesian War

· ISIS: Forgotten But Not Gone

· The Islamic State English-Language Online Magazine Rumiyah (Rome): Research Guide, Narrative & Threat Analysis and U.S. Policy Response

· MacArthur, Eisenhower, and the Lost Lessons of Building Partnership Capacity

· Shifting Militia Allegiances and the Prospects for Ending the Small War in Northern Mali

· Terrorism and Technology: The Front End

· U.S. Grand Strategy is Alive and Well - The Evidence is Happening All Around Us

South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

· Climate Resilience in Developing Cities: Msimbazi Basin, Dar es Salaam

· Spotlighting Governance Challenges: Lessons from Namibia

Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

· SIGAR-19-50-IP Afghanistan's North East Power System Phase I: Construction Deficiencies, Contractor Noncompliance, and Poor Oversight Resulted in a System that May Not Operate Safely or At Planned Levels

Terrorism Research Center

· The Islamic State English-Language Online Magazine Rumiyah (Rome);Research Guide, Narrative & Threat Analysis and U.S. Policy Response

Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC)

· Few Federal Hate Crime Referrals Result in Prosecution

· Removals under the Secure Communities Program: ICE Data through April 2019

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

· Half of Palestinians Still Want All of Palestine – But Most Would Compromise for Less

· Hezbollah’s Lebanese Allies Can Be Contained

· Israel Announces New Units for Settlers and Palestinians

· Militias Are Threatening Public Safety in Iraq

· Time to Change Course on the UN’s Lebanon Policy

· Turkey’s Rising Wave of Social Protests