Saturday, April 25, 2020

Friday's Miscellany 04-17-2020


38 North

Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN)

Al Jazeera Center for Studies
·         Eight Heads of States versus Coronavirus: A Leadership Comparative Question
o    Part 1
o    Part 2

American Enterprise Institute

Amnesty International

Atlantic Council

Australian Centre on China in the World
·         China Story Yearbook

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)
·         Covid-19 Disinformation

Baker Institute

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA)

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
·         Reconceptualizing Cyber Power

Bipartisan Policy Center

Blair Institute for Global Change

Brookings

Canada. Department of National Defence
·         Canadian Military Journal, Spring 2020,  v. 20, no. 2
o    The 21st Century Wright Flier: The Military Implications of Affordable Access to Space
o    e-Thinking: Pre-Empting Global Instability in the 21st Century
o    Cultural Property Protection and the Canadian Armed Forces
o    Leadership within NATO: Canada’s 2018 Chairing of the NATO Military Intelligence Committee
o    In Limbo: The 22nd Battalion (French-Canadian), from Demobilization  to Integration into the Permanent Force
o    Mental Health is Not Just a Challenge for War Heroes: Sometimes  Average People Need Help, Too
o    All Quiet on the Northern Front?

Canada. Royal Canadian Air Force
·         Royal Canadian Air Force Journal, Winter 2020, v. 9, v. 1
o    Use It or Lose It: The Demise of the Air Combat Force
o    A Fifth-Generation Tactical Air Transport Platform, Part 1
o    DRDC: Raising the “Multistatic IQ” of the RCAF
o    Continuous Improvement Institutionalized
o    Deployed Contracted Aircraft Maintenance

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace & Middle East Enter

CATO Institute

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

Center for Advanced Defense Studies (C4ADS)

Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

Center for Global Development
·         Addressing Debt Vulnerabilities
·         Headship and Poverty in Africa

Center for Health Security

Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

Center for Security Studies (CSS)
·         Analyses in Security Policy
o    No. 260: Integrating AI into Civil Protection
o    No. 261: Nuclear Non-Proliferation in a Deadlock
           
Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment (CSBA)

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
·         Covid-19 Response Update: April 10-April 17 [interactive]

Center on Law, Ethics and National Security

Centre for European Reform (CER)

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

Clingendael Netherlands Institute of International Relations
·         The Future of Arctic Security

College of Europe

Computational Propaganda Project

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

Department of Defense (DOD)

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)
·         DODIG-2020-079 Report on the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) Cloud Procurement

Department of State

Departments of State, Homeland Security, and Treasury, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation

Department of the Treasury

Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)

East-West Center

Economic Research Forum

Egmont Institute

Enough Project

EU Non-Proliferation Consortium

European Policy Centre (EPC)

European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)
·         Cyber Conflict Uncoded

European Values

EUROPOL

Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

George Washington University Program on Extremism

Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS)

German Development Institute 

German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
·         Cybersecurity: DOD Needs to Take Decisive Actions to Improve Cyber Hygiene GAO-20-241
·         Defense Acquisitions: Action Is Needed to Provide Clarity and Mitigate Risks of the Air Force's Planned Advanced Battle Management System GAO-20-389
·         Job Corps: DOL Should Provide Greater Transparency in Communicating Its Rationale for Closure Decisions GAO-20-240R
·         Presidential Helicopter: Program is Meeting Cost Goals but Some Technical and Schedule Risks Remain GAO-20-356
·         Preventing Drug Diversion: Disposal of Controlled Substances in Home Hospice Settings GAO-20-378
·         Telecommunications and Call Centers: Observations on Federal Contracting Practices GAO-20-291

Heritage Foundation

Human Rights Watch

Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)
·         Iran Battling COVID-19

Institute for National Security Studies (INSS - Israel)
·         Strategic Assessment, April 2020, v. 23, no. 2
o    Saudi Arabia-China Relations: A Brave Friendship or Useful Leverage?

Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC)

Institute for Science and International Security

Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP)

Institute for the Study of War
·         Iraq Situation Report: April 8 - 14, 2020
·         Syria Situation Report: April 1 - 14, 2020

Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP)

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

Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

International Crisis Group

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

IntSights

Jamestown Foundation
·         China Brief, April 13, 2020, v. 20, no. 7
o    Epidemic-Related Unrest and the CCP’s Reinforced Political Loyalty Indoctrination for China’s Police
o    Responding to the Epidemic in Wuhan: Insights into Chinese Military Logistics
o    The China-Myanmar Economic Corridor: Delays Ahead
o    Mind the Trap: What Basing Rights in Djibouti and Sri Lanka Reveal About the Limitations of Debt as a Tool of Chinese Military Expansion
o    The PLA Navy’s ZHANLAN Training Series: Supporting Offensive Strike on the High Seas
·         Terrorism Monitor, April 17, 2020, v. 18, no. 8
o    Arms from Yemen will Fuel Conflict in the Horn of Africa
o    Al-Qaeda’s South Asian Branch Gravitating Toward Kashmir
o    Turkey’s Drone Blitz Over Idlib

Joint Special Operations University (JSOU)

Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI)

Martens Centre for European Studies

Middle East Institute

Migration Policy Institute

MITRE

National Academies Press

National Coronavirus Recovery Commission

National Security Archive

NATO Defense College

Naval War College
·         International Law Studies, 2020, v. 96 

Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (NUPI)

Office of the Attorney General

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

Overseas Development Institute

Oxford Internet Institute Computational Propaganda Research Project

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

Pew Research Center Global Attitudes & Trends

Pew Research Center Journalism & Media

Pew Research Center U.S. Politics & Policy

Policy Exchange

Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)

Project on Government Oversight

Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS)

Rand Corporation

Royal Australian Air Force Air Power Development Centre
·         Directed Energy Weapons

Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF)
·         Royal Canadian Air Force Journal, Winter 2020, v. 9, no. 1
o    Use It or Lose It: The  Demise of the Air Combat Force
o    A Fifth-Generation Tactical Air Transport Platform, Part I
o    DRDC: Raising the “Multistatic IQ” of the RCAF
o    Continuous Improvement Institutionalized
o    Deployed Contracted Aircraft Maintenance

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

Small Arms Survey

Small Wars Journal

South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)
·         SIGAR 20-35-IP  Department of Defense Implemented Less than 40 Percent of SIGAR's Audit and Inspections Recommendations and Does Not Have a System for Tracking Them

Stimson Center

US Central Command (CENTCOM)
·         Unipath, 2020, v. 10, Special ed.
o    Rebuilding Yemen's Coast Guard
o    Unifying Tribes
o    The Role of Intelligence of Combating Terrorism
o    The Houthi-Iranian Connection
o    Defending Yemini Legitimacy
o    The Importance of Youth
o    Senior Leader Profile: Vice Adm. Abdullah Salim Ali Abdullah Al-Nakhai, Yemeni Armed Forces

U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission

U.S. Immigration Policy Center

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Watson Institute

Wilson Center