Friday's Miscellany 02-07-2020

38 North

• Wonsan-Kalma Airfield Air Forces Flight Activity – The New Normal?

 Air Power Development Centre

• Air Power and Maritime Operations - 1 - A Historical Perspective

 Al Jazeera Center for Studies

• Seven Ironies of Reconstructing a New Security Paradigm in the Gulf 

 Amnesty International

• In Search of Safety: Peru Turns Its Back on People Fleeing Venezuela

 Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

• Medical Surveillance Monthly Report (MSMR), January 2020, v. 27, no. 1
• Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, Active and Reserve Component Service Members and Non-Service Member Beneficiaries of the Military Health System, U.S. Armed Forces, July 2009–June 2019
• Respiratory Pathogen Surveillance Trends and Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness Estimates for the 2018–2019 Season Among Department of Defense Beneficiaries
• Brief Report: Incidence and Prevalence of Idiopathic Corneal Ectasias, Active Component, 2001–2018

 Aspen Institute

• The Struggle for Power: U.S.-China Relations in the 21st Century

 Atlantic Council

• Professionalizing the Iraqi Army: US engagement after the Islamic State
• Withdrawal deadlines in war: Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

• Australia's Next Cybersecurity Strategy: Views From the Strategist

 Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES)

• Colonial Cables – The Politics of Surveillance in the Middle East and North Africa

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

• Historical Cases for Contemporary Energy Decisions
• Mercantilism’s Groundhog Day: The U.S.-China Trade War and Some Regional Energy Market Implications
• White Elephants on Quicksand: Low Oil Prices and High Geopolitical Risk

 Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)

• Russia-Ukraine Transit Deal: A Crisis Postponed?

 Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA)

• Arabs and the Holocaust
• Confirmation Bias and Antisemitism
• Could Chernobyl Syndrome Take Hold in Iran?
• Democrats, Experts, and Peace Plans
• The Foreign Policy of US Democrats: An Assessment Ahead of the Iowa Caucuses 
• The Hazards of Holocaust Remembrance in Europe
• Iran’s Strategic Mistake: Too Many Enemies
• The Mountain Ridge Will Save Tel Aviv from Ecological Disaster
• SDI: A Basis for a Multi-Layered Defense Against Ballistic Missiles
• Turkey and Israel: Can Pragmatism Defeat “Bad Blood”?

 Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs

• The U.S.-China Strategic Competition: Clues from History

 Brookings

• How the EU and Turkey Can Promote Self-Reliance for Syrian Refugees through Agricultural Trade
• Industries without Smokestacks: Firm Characteristics and Constraints to Growth
• Refugees as Assets not Burdens: The Role of Policy

 Brown University Watson Institute

• The Cost of Debt-financed War: Public Debt and Rising Interest for Post-9/11 War Spending

 Bruegel

• From Climate Change to Cyber-Attacks: Incipient Financial-Stability Risks for the Euro Area
• From Globalization to Deglobalization: Zooming into Trade
• Resisting Deglobalisation: The Case of Europe

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Security Assistance in the Middle East: A Three-Dimensional Chessboard

 CATO Institute

• India Should Join Asia’s New Free‐Trade Area
• Policy News and Stock Market Volatility

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

• Protracted Great-Power War: A Preliminary Assessment

 Center for Global Development

• Actually Navigating by Judgment: Towards a New Paradigm of Donor Accountability Where the Current System Doesn’t Work
• Blueprint for a Market-Driven Value-Based Advance Commitment for Tuberculosis
• Managing Better: What All of Us Can Do to Encourage Aid Success
• The Subsidy Sorting Hat
• Unpacking the Black Box of Payer Policy: A Demand-Side Approach for Equitable Uptake of Cost-Effective Health Innovation

 Center for International Policy

• How the Travel Ban Affects Africans

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

• CSS Analyses in Security Policy
• No. 256 Space Security:  The Next Decade 
• No. 257 Current Dynamics of  Urban Military Operations

 Center for Space Policy and Strategy (CSPS)

• Developing a Sustainable Spectrum Approach for 5G Services & Critical Weather Forecasts
• Large Constellation Disposal Hazards
• Noninterference with National Technical Means: The Status Quo Will Not Survive 

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• Analysis of the FY 2020 Defense Budget and Its Implications for FY 2021 and Beyond
• Getting to Less? The Progressive Values Strategy
• What to Look for in the FY 2021 Defense Budget Request [interactive]

 Center on Global Energy Policy

• Energy and Geopolitics: A Joint Workshop of the Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy and the Paris Energy Club

 Center on Law, Ethics and National Security

• China, An Active Practitioner of Legal Warfare

 Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies

• EDAM’s Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation Research of 2019

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

• Can France and Germany Steer Europe to Success? Annual Report 2019

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

• OK, Boomer: Youth Hesitant to Use Force, Shun US Exceptionalism in Foreign Policy

 China Maritime Studies Institute

• China's Dreadnought? The PLA Navy's Type 055 Cruiser and Its Implications for the Future Maritime Security Environment

 Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

• Consolidating Sudan’s Transition
• The Need for New Approaches to Export Control

 College of Europe

• A Stronger Europe in the World: Major Challenges for EU Trade Policy
• What the ‘European Green Deal’ Means for the EU’s External Action

 Congress. House. Armed Services Committee

• Exceptional Family Member Program – Are the Military Services Really Taking Care of Family Members?
• Supercharging the Innovation Base
• Update on Navy and Marine Corps Readiness in the Pacific in the Aftermath of Recent Mishaps

 Congress. House. Energy & Commerce Committee

• Clearing the Air: Legislation to Promote Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage
• Modernizing the Natural Gas Act to Ensure it Works for Everyone
• Vaping in America: E-Cigarette Manufacturers' Impact on Public Health

 Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee

• Unique Challenges Women Face in Global Health
• The Wuhan Coronavirus: Assessing the Outbreak, the Response, and Regional Implications  

 Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee

• About Face: Examining the Department of Homeland Security’s Use of Facial Recognition and Other Biometric Technologies, Part II 
• The Northern Northern Border: Homeland Security Priorities in the Arctic, Part II

 Congress. House. Judiciary Committee

• Citizens United at 10: The Consequences for Democracy and Potential Responses by Congress
• Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

 Congress. House. Oversight & Reform Committee

• A Threat to America’s Children: The Trump Administration’s Proposal to Gut Fair Housing Accountability
• A Threat to America’s Children: The Trump Administration’s Proposal to Undermine Protections from Mercury Air Toxics Standards
• A Threat to America’s Children: The Trump Administration’s Proposed Changes to Broad-Based Categorical Eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
• A Threat to America’s Children: The Trump Administration’s Proposed Changes to the Poverty Line Calculation

 Congress. House. Science, Space, and Technology Committee

• America’s Seed Fund: A Review of SBIR and STTR
• Management and Spending Challenges within the Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

 Congress. House. Select Committee on the Climate Crisis

• Creating a Climate Resilient America: Overcoming the Health Risks of the Climate Crisis

 Congress. House. Select Committee on The Modernization of Congress

• Article One: Fostering a More Deliberative Process in Congress
• Article One: Restoring Capacity and Equipping Congress to Better Serve the American People

 Congress. Senate. Commerce, Science, & Transportation Committee

• Athlete Safety and the Integrity of U.S. Sport
• Keep on Truckin’: Stakeholder Perspectives on Trucking in America

 Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence

• Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence United States Senate on Russian Active Measures Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election
• Volume 1: Russian Efforts against Election Infrastructure with Additional Views
• Volume 2: Russia's Use of Social Media with Additional Views 
• Volume 3: U.S. Government response to Russian Activities

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• An Overview of The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2020 to 2030
• Automatic Stabilizers in the Federal Budget: 2020 to 2030
• Expired and Expiring Authorizations of Appropriations: Fiscal Year 2020
• How Changes in Economic Conditions Might Affect the Federal Budget: 2020 to 2030 
• Workbook for How Changes in Economic Conditions Might Affect the Federal Budget, February 2020 [Interactive]

 Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies

• Terrorism in the Indo-Pacific: The Year Gone by and the Road Ahead

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

• Immanent Conflict without Immanent War: Local Actors and Foreign Powers are Scrabbling for Influence in Iraq and Syria

 Department of Defense (DOD)

• Ethical Conduct and Political Activities [memo from Sec of Defense Esper]
• FY2021 Defense Wide Review: Report to Congress

 Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

• DODIG-2020-056 Audit of Readiness of Arleigh Burke-Class Destroyers
• DODIG-2020-057 Independent Auditor’s Report on the FY 2019 DoD Performance Summary Report for the Funds Obligated for National Drug Control Program Activities 
• DODIG-2020-058 Independent Auditor’s Report on the FY 2019 DoD Detailed Accounting Report for the Funds Obligated for National Drug Control Program Activities
• DODIG-2020-059 Evaluation of Weather Support Capabilities for the MQ-9 Reaper
• Lead Inspector General for Operation Inherent Resolve I Quarterly Report to the United States Congress, October 1, 2019 – December 31, 2019

 Department of Homeland Defense, Inspector General

• OIG-20-10 Risk Assessment of FEMA's Grant Closeout Process

 East West Center

• Taiwan’s 2020 Election and Its Implications for the New Southbound Policy

 Egmont Institute

• Strategic Choices for the 2020s

 Elliot School of International Affairs - Central Asia Program

• Choosing Your Battles: Different Languages of Kazakhstani Youth Activism
• Tajik Artists Lead Social Change: The Role of Art in Questioning Tajik Traditional Values
• Unveiling Girls’ Madrasahs in Kyrgyzstan

 Energy Information Administration (EIA)

• International Energy Portal

 European Asylum Support Office (EASO)

• EASO COI Report: Syria - Situation of Women

 European Union

• European ATM Master Plan: Digitalising Europe’s Aviation Infrastructure: Executive View: 2020 Edition
• Passenger Rights
• Transformations of European Citizenship: Beyond Free Movement: Policy Review

 European Union Agency for Cybersecurity  (ENISA)

• Standards Supporting Certification: Analysis of Standards in Areas Relevant to the Potential EU Candidate Cybersecurity Certification Schemes  

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

• Andorra's Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 
• Hungary's Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 
• The Kingdom of Jordan's Measures to Combat Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 
• Serbia's Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing
• Uruguay's Measures to Combat Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing

 Foundation for Strategic Research (Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique)

• France and Nuclear Deterrence - A Spirit of Resistance 

 Future Directions International

• Global Food and Water Security in 2050: Demographic Change and Increased Demand 

 German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

• India’s Citizenship Struggle

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Aviation Maintenance: Additional Coordination and Data Could Advance FAA Efforts to Promote a Robust, Diverse Workforce GAO-20-206
• Coast Guard: Initiatives to Address Aids to Navigation Challenges Could be Enhanced to Better Ensure Effective Implementation GAO-20-107
• Defense Health Care: Plans Needed to Ensure Implementation of Required Elements for TRICARE's Managed Care Support Contracts GAO-20-197
• Election Security: DHS Plans Are Urgently Needed to Address Identified Challenges Before the 2020 Elections GAO-20-267
• Emergency Alerting: Agencies Need to Address Pending Applications and Monitor Industry Progress on System Improvements GAO-20-294
• Information Technology: DHS Directives Have Strengthened Federal Cybersecurity, but Improvements Are Needed GAO-20-133
• International Boundary and Water Commission: Opportunities Exist to Address Water Quality Problems GAO-20-307
• Puerto Rico Disaster Recovery: FEMA Actions Needed to Strengthen Project Cost Estimation and Awareness of Program Guidance GAO-20-221
• Recuperación de Desastres en Puerto Rico: Acciones de FEMA son Necesarias para Fortalecer la Calculación de Costos de Proyectos y el Conocimiento de las Directrices del Programa GAO-20-38
• VA Acquisition Management: Steps Needed to Ensure Healthcare Federal Supply Schedules Remain Useful GAO-20-132

 Heritage Foundation

• The 2019 Coronavirus: How to Think About It and How to Respond
• Top Five Priorities for the U.S.–Georgian Relationship in 2020

 Human Rights Watch

• Deported to Danger: United States Deportation Policies Expose Salvadorans to Death and Abuse
• “If We Don’t Get Services, We Will Die” Tanzania’s Anti-LGBT Crackdown and the Right to Health

 Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

• India’s Defence Budget 2020-21

 Institute for Security Studies [Africa]

• #SpeakUp: Using Social Media to Promote Police Accountability in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda

 Institute for National Security Studies (INSS - Israel)

• At the Opening of the New Decade, Regional Challenges Test Israel's Strength - Main Insights from the INSS 13th Annual International Conference
• Comparing the “Deal of the Century” with Previous Plans
• Five Insights from the Fifth World Holocaust Forum
• Lebanon Forms a New Government, but Popular Protests Persist

 Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS)

• Baltics Left of Bang: Nordic Total Defense and Implications for the Baltic Sea Region 
• Qassem Soleimani: Moscow's Syria Decision – Myth and Reality

 Institute for the Study of War

• Iraq’s Political Elite Identify Consensus Candidate for Prime Minister-Designee

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

• General Haftar and the Risks of Authoritarian "Stability" in Libya
• Space and the Future of Europe as a Global Actor: EO as a Key Security Aspect

 Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

• Analysing the Crackdown on the Pashtun Movement in Pakistan
• India Budget 2020-21: Inviting Risks on Hope
• India Presents a Conservative Budget for 2020-21 
• India’s Annual Budget 2020-21: Will it Revive the Growth of the Economy? 
• Woes of Wuhan: The Politics of a Pandemic
• Xi Jinping’s Visit to Myanmar: Implications for the Bay of Bengal

 Intelligence and National Security Alliance

• Amidst Reports of Rising Cyber Threats from State Actors, U.S. Private Sector Can Take Protective Measures

 International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

• El Chapo Bin Laden? Why Drug Cartels are not Terrorist Organisations 

 International Peace Institute (IPI)

• Priorities for the 2021 Peacekeeping Ministerial: Reflections from an Expert Roundtable

 Jamestown Foundation

• Terrorism Monitor, February 7, 2020, v. 18, no. 3
• Counterinsurgency in the Sahel is at Risk of Unraveling?
• Continuation of Policy by Other Means: Russ-ian Private Military Con-tractors in the Libyan Civil War
• A Piece of a Greater Puzzle: The Libyan Civil War, External Influences and Regional Trends

 Lowy Institute

• Behind the News: Inside China Global Television Network 

 Middle East Institute

• Turkey’s Parliamentary Purge and the Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) Dilemma

 Mitchell Institute

• Remotely Piloted Aircraft Operation: Lessons Learned and Implications for Future Warfare

 National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA)

• Vital Signs 2020: The Health and Readiness of the Defense Industrial Base

 National Defense University Press

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

 National Security Archive

• Starting to Crack a Hard Target: U.S. Intelligence Efforts against the Soviet Missile Program through 1957

 NATO Defense College

• Topographic Maps: The Scientific Principles of Their Content” and “Military Topography”

 NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence

• Disinformation as a Global Problem – Regional Perspectives
• Iran’s Proxy War in Yemen: the Information Warfare Landscape

 Naval War College

• Naval War College Review, Winter 2020, v. 73, no. 1
• Blurred Lines: Gray-Zone Conflict and Hybrid War—Two Failures of American Strategic Thinking
• A Double-Edged Sword: Ballistic-Missile Defense and U.S. Alliances
• Should the United States Support a Republic of Korea Nuclear Submarine Program?
• Neptune’s Oracle: Admiral Harry E. Yarnell’s Wartime Planning, 1918–20 and 1943–44
• Research & Debate: Prediction
• Reflections on Reading

 Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (NUPI)

• Can Trade Preferences Stimulate Sectoral Development? The Case of Namibian and Botswanan Beef Exports to Norway
• Russia and Europe in Memory Wars

 Notre Europe - Institut Jacques Delors

• Making the Green Deal a European Success Coalition, Narrative, Flagships

 Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)

• Law Enforcement Dog Encounters Training (LEDET): A Toolkit for Law Enforcement
• Lessons to Advance Community Policing: Final Report for 2015 Microgrant Sites

 Observer Research Foundation

• India and South Korea: Exploring New Avenues, Outlining Goals
• Understanding India–US Trade Tensions Beyond Trade Imbalances 
• US Trade ‘Realignment’: The Impact of GSP Withdrawal on India’s Top Exports to the United States

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

• Well-Being and Safety of Women: Facts And Figures at a Glance

 Pew Research Center Global Attitudes & Trends

• NATO Seen Favorably Across Member States

 Pew Research Center Internet & Technology

• The Virtues and Downsides of Online Dating 

 RAND Corporation

• 2019 West Coast Aerospace Forum: An Air and Space Force Designed for the Future
• Assessment of Alternative Funding Models for Activities in RDECOM (Now CCDC) and ATEC
• Automating Army Convoys Technical and Tactical Risks and Opportunities
• Considerations for Managing Program Data in the Emerging Acquisition Environment: Summary
• Does the United States Need to Strengthen the System of Care for Infectious Diseases?
• From SARS to 2019-Coronavirus (nCoV): U.S.-China Collaborations on Pandemic Response [testimony]
• Improving Behavioral Health Care for U.S. Army Personnel
• Issues with Access to Acquisition Information in the Department of Defense: A Series on Considerations for Managing Program Data in the Emerging Acquisition Environment
• A New Zimbabwe? Assessing Continuity and Change After Mugabe 
• Understanding the Deterrent Impact of U.S. Overseas Forces

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

• Modern Russian and Chinese Integrated Air Defence Systems: The Nature of the Threat, Growth Trajectory and Western Options
• Taking Control: Rediscovering the Centrality of National Interest in UK Foreign and Security Policy
• Understanding Financial Crime Risks in E-Commerce

 Small Wars Journal

• 2019 National Drug Threat Assessment: Mexican Cartel Related Excerpts & Sections 
• All the King’s Men: Authoritarianism, Loyalty and the Syrian Collapse
• Amid Humanitarian Crisis, Syrian Regime Intensifies Idlib Offensive
• Exchanging Hats to Fix the Military Part 3: DIME Navy, COIN “Ultralight” Marines 
• Fixing the Problem: Integrating Virtue Ethics into U.S. Special Operations Forces Selection, Education, and Training
• Gray Zones and Crime Suppression: Between International Human Rights Law and International Law of Armed Conflicts
• The Return of the Eastern Front: The Evolution of the Iraqi Threat in Israeli Eyes
• The Role of Aid and Development in the Fight Against Extremism
• What Happens When Sudan is Removed from the U.S. Terror List? 

 South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

• Sovereign Wealth Funds in Africa: Taking Stock and Looking Forward

 Taylor & Francis

• Intelligence and National Security, 2002, v. 35, no. 2
• An Analytical Framework for Postmortems of European Foreign Policy: Should Decision-Makers Have Been Surprised? [open access article]

 US Institute of Peace (USIP)

• Afghan Women’s Views on Violent Extremism and Aspirations to a Peacemaking Role 
• A Peace Regime for the Korean Peninsula

 US Securities and Exchange Commission

• Cybersecurity and Resiliency Observations

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• Centering Iraq Policy on Human Rights and Fair Elections
• Continuity vs. Overreach in the Trump Peace Plan (Part 1): Borders and Jerusalem 
• Continuity vs. Overreach in the Trump Peace Plan (Part 2): Security, Refugees, and Narratives
• The Dangerous Consequences of U.S. Withdrawal from Iraq
• The Evolution of Iraq’s Protests: Excessive Force Pushes Protesters to Adapt
• Idlib and Its Environs: Narrowing Prospects for a Rebel Holdout 
• The Persistent Threat from the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda: The View from the UN
• Pivoting to the KRG: Restructuring the U.S. Military Presence in Iraq 
• UN Panel Highlights Command-and-Control Issues in Yemen
• U.S. Strategy Toward Iran: Restoring Deterrence, Enabling Diplomacy

 Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict

• Countering Terrorism  and Violent Extremism: The Erosion of Children’s Rights in Armed Conflict

 White House

• National Drug Control Strategy [February 2020]

 Wilson Center

• Ready for Work: An Analysis of Workforce Asymmetries in the Middle East and North Africa
• SDF's Arab Majority Rank Turkey as the Biggest Threat to NE Syria: Survey Data on America's Partner Forces

 World Bank

• Cyber Resilience of Autonomous Mobility Systems : Cyber Attacks and Resilience-Enhancing Strategies
• Global Economic Prospects, January 2020 : Slow Growth, Policy Challenges
• The Mobility of Displaced Syrians: An Economic and Social Analysis
• The Nitrogen Legacy: The Long-Term Effects of Water Pollution on Human Capital 

 World Economic Forum

• Accelerating the Impact of Industrial IoT in Small and Medium‑Accelerating the Impact of Industrial IoT in Small and Medium‑Sized Enterprises: A Protocol for Action
• Advancing Cyber Resilience in Aviation: An Industry Analysis 
• Cybercrime Prevention Principles for Internet Service Providers 
• Energy Policy Lighthouses: The Little Green Book
• An Open Platform for Traceability: Accelerating Transparency and Sustainability across Manufacturing Ecosystems
• Passwordless Authentication: The Next Breakthrough in Secure Digital Transformation