Friday's Miscellany 01-03-2020

38 North

·         38 North Press Call Transcript: Kim Jong Un’s 2020 New Year’s Address: No, Kim Jong Un Is Not Taking a Wait and See Approach

·         North Korea’s “Christmas Gift” That Wasn’t

·         SAR Imagery Reveals the Presence of Concealed Submarine at North Korea’s Sinpo Naval Base

Africa Center for Strategic Studies

·         Timeline of South Sudan Peace Agreements and Violence

Army University Press

·         Military Review, January-February 2020, v. 100, no. 1

o    Field Manual 4-0: Driving Sustainment Change

o    A Logic All Its Own: Russian Operational Art in the Syrian Campaign

o    The Small-Team Replacement System: Wartime Replacement Systems in Large-Scale Combat Operations

o    Leadership during Large-Scale Combat Operations

o    Developing Readiness to Trust Artificial Intelligence within Warfighting Teams

o    Not an Intellectual Exercise: Lessons from U.S.-Israeli Institutional Army Cooperation, 1973–1982

o    Have I Ever Been to War?

o    Air Supremacy: Are the Chinese Ready?

o    Information on the Twenty-First Century Battlefield: Proposing the Army’s Seventh Warfighting Function

o    The Army’s Gap in Operational-Level Intelligence for Space as Part of Multi-Domain Operations

o    Great Power Collaboration? A Possible Model for Arctic Governance

o    Evaluating Our Evaluations: Recognizing and Countering Performance Evaluation Pitfalls

o    Option 17: Military Law and Vigilante Justice in Prisoner of War Camps during World War II

o    Key Ingredient in Army Leader Development: Graduate School

o    The Reemergence of Gray-Zone Warfare in Modern Conflicts: Israel’s Struggle against Hamas’s Indirect Approach

o    Admiral Bill Halsey: A Naval Life

o    Medal of Honor Recipients

Atlantic Council

·         Election 2020: What’s at Stake for Energy?

·         Transforming the Power Sector in Developing Countries: Geopolitics, Poverty, and Climate Change in Pakistan

·         Transforming the Power Sector in Developing Countries: Geopolitics, Poverty, and Climate Change in Bangladesh

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA)

·         Fighting the Demonization of Israel at the International Criminal Court

·         How Will the IAEA’s New DG Cope with Iran?

·         Israel Could Be Key to 2020 Middle East Geopolitics

·         Trump’s Higher Price Tag Makes Japan and South Korea Weigh Their Options

·         The United States: The Next Decade

Brookings

·         Taiwan’s January 2020 Elections: Prospects and Implications for China and the United States

Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies (ORSAM)

·         The Impact of Migration Policies on the EU’s Image as a Value-Driven Normative Actor

Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law

·         Chinese Influence & American Interests: Promoting Constructive Vigilance

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

·         Taking Back the Seas: Transforming the U.S. Surface Fleet for Decision-Centric Warfare

Department of State

·         2019 World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers (WMEAT) [37th report]

Economic Research Forum

·         From Oil Rents to Inclusive Growth: Lessons from the MENA Region

·         Islamic Finance and GCC Economic Integration

Heritage Foundation

·         U.S. Should Boost Deterrence Against Iran

Hedayah International Center of Excellence for Countering Violent Extremism

·         Classroom Activities: Preventing Violent Extremism through Education in East Africa

·         Creating Positive Policing Narratives for CVE

·         Providing Support to Children and Youth Vulnerable to or Affected by RLVE

Institute for National Security Studies (INSS - Israel)

·         Suicide Bombings Worldwide in 2019: Signs of Decline following the Military Defeat of the Islamic State

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

·         Over Five Years of Russian Hybrid Warfare against Ukraine Provide Lessons How to Make Ukraine Stronger

Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

·         Fostering Positive Private Sector Engagement in the Med Energy Landscape

·         The Geopolitics of Critical Minerals

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

·         A New Chief of Defence Staff Post in India: Ensuring Greater Security Coordination

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

·         Debt Is Not Free

Jamestown Foundation

·         China Brief, December 31, 2019, v. 19, n. 22 

o    The CCP’s Renewed Focus on Ideological Conditioning, Part 2: The New Five-Year Plan for Training Party Cadres

o    Planting the Seed: Ethnic Policy in Xi Jinping’s New Era of Cultural Nationalism

o    China’s 2020 Economic Agenda: Maintaining Stability Amid Flux

o    The “22 vs. 50” Diplomatic Split Between the West and China Over Xinjiang and Human Rights

o    The Role of the Arctic in Chinese Naval Strategy

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

·         Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest, v. 35, no. 1, 2019

o    Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Spectrum Collaboration Challenge at APL: Introduction

o    Overview of the Colosseum: The World’s Largest Test Bed for Radio Experiments

o    Software Project Management for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Spectrum Collaboration Challenge

o    Development and Operations on the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s Spectrum Collaboration Challenge

o    The Resource Manager for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Spectrum Collaboration Challenge Test Bed

o    Standard Radio Nodes in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Spectrum Collaboration Challenge

o    Incumbent Radio Systems in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Spectrum Collaboration Challenge Test Bed

o    Traffic Generation System for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Spectrum Collaboration Challenge

o    Radio Frequency Emulation System for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Spectrum Collaboration Challenge

National Defense University Press

·         A Persistent Fire: The Strategic Ethical Impact of World War I on the Global Profession of Arms

Policy Exchange

·         Whitehall Reimagined: A Strengthened Civil Service for a Post-Brexit Britain

Rand

·         Acquisition and Use of MANPADS Against Commercial Aviation

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

·         How China Sees the Indo-Pacific: What Next After AOIP?

·         Mahathir 2.0 and China: Hedging in a Fluid World

·         Russian Foreign Policy: Balance Sheet 2019

Socialist Republic of Vietnam Ministry of National Defence

·         2019 Viet Nam National Defence [white paper]

Stanley Foundation

·         Evaluating Member State Acceptance of Blockchain for Nuclear Safeguards

UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA)

·         The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention: 20 Years of Saving Lives and Preventing Indiscriminate Harm

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         Does Soleimani’s Death Matter? Findings from a 2019 Workshop

·         Escalation in Iraq: How to Limit the Damage and Reestablish Sovereignty

·         Escalation in Iraq Raises Questions About Tensions Between Saudi Arabia and Iran

·         Iran’s Supreme Leader Responds to the Soleimani Assassination

·         Iraqi Reactions to Soleimani’s Assassination

·         Kuwaiti Public, Including Shia Minority, Still Anti-Iran—but Wary of Conflict

·         The Tight Rope: Deterring Militias While Supporting Reformists in Iraq

·         U.S.-Iraq Relations at a Crossroads: Policy Options

Wilson Center

·         Venezuela and Cuba: The Ties that Bind

World Bank

·         Global Financial Development Report 2019/2020