Sunday, November 21, 2021

Friday's Miscellany 11-5-2021 & 11-12-2021

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

 American Enterprise Institute

 Amnesty International

 Air University Press

 Arctic Institute

 Army University Press

  • Military Review, November-December 2021, v. 101, no. 6 
    • The Theater Army and the Consequence of Landpower for the Indo-Pacific
    • Planning for Culture: Incorporating Cultural Property Protection into a Large-Scale, Multi-Domain Exercise
    • Russia’s Soft Power Projection in the Middle East
    • Foreign Area Officers: The Roles of an Indispensable Asset in the Army’s Competition and Allies’ and Partners’ Strategies
    • Planning to Prevent Genocide: Lemkin’s Warning and Eichmann’s Crimes
    • Domain Awareness Superiority Is the Future of Military Intelligence
    • The Levels of War as Levels of Analysis
    • The Jungle: Thinking About the Division’s Role in Unit Training Management at the 25th Infantry Division
    • A Value Proposition: Cohort Staff
    • Striking the Balance between Contiguous and Noncontiguous Areas of Operation at the Division and Corps Levels
    • Professional Development is about the Profession, Not the Professional
    • Russia’s China Gamble: Strategic Implications of a Sino-Russian Energy Economy
    • The German Way of War: A Lesson in Tactical Management
    • Tribute to Gen. Colin Powell

 Asan Institute for Policy Studies

 Asia-Pacific Leadership Network (APLN)

 Aspen Institute

 Atlantic Council

 Australian National University Press

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

 Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES) 

 Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)

 Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs 

 Bipartisan Policy Center

 Blair Institute for Global Change

 Brookings 

 Brown University, Cost of War Project

 Bruegel

 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)

 Cambridge University Press

Canada. Department of National Defence

  • Canadian Military Journal, Autumn 2021,  v. 21, no. 4
    • Serving the Nation’s Interests: Creating an Integrated and Agile Canadian Reserve Force
    • A Forensic Anthropologist’s Role in the Defence Team: Current Responsibilities and Future Opportunities within the Canadian Armed Forces
    • Civil-Military Operational Support to the “Heart of Canada’s North”: Looking to Alaska and the Australian North for Options
    • Deciphering the Roles of Chief Petty Officers/Chief Warrant Officers within Command Teams
    • War is War: The Relevance and Practicality of The Principles of War for Future Combat
    • Emotional Intelligence: Leading through the COVID Crisis
    • Trained to Fight and Everything in Between
    • The Aurora, the Cormorant and the Conundrums of Defence

 Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

 Carr Center for Human Rights Policy [Harvard]

 CATO Institute

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

 Center for Advanced Defense (C4ADS) 

 Center for Countering Digital Hate

 Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

 Center for Global Development

 Center for International Policy

 Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

 Center for Security Policy

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

  • Analyses in Security Policy
    • No. 293: Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova between Russia and the West
    • No. 294: The Taliban Takeover and China-Russia Relations 
  • Caucasus Analytical Digest No. 124: Participation of Civil Society in Georgia’s Climate Policy 
  • Russian Analytical Digest
    • No. 272: Russian Agriculture and Climate Change 
    • No. 273: Russia and the Conflicts in the South Caucasus: Perspectives from Armenia and Azerbaijan 

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

 Center on Global Energy Policy

 Center on Islam, Democracy and the Future of the Muslim World

  • Current Trends in Islamist Ideology, October 2021, v. 29 
    • Libya’s Islamists: A Fragmented Landscape
    • Into Darkness? Scrutinizing Economic Explanations for African Jihad
    • The North-South Divide: Nigerian Discourses on Boko Haram, The Fulani, and Islamization
    • Salafis, Sufis, and the Contest for the Future of African Islam
    • Exploring the Evolution of South Africa’s Extremist Networks
    • The Iranian Revolutionary Apparatus and Hezbollah in West Africa

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

 Centre for Independent Studies

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

 Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST)

 Chatham House

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

 Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

 College of Europe

 Conflict Armament Research

 Congress. House. Armed Services Committee

 Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee

 Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee

 Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee

 Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

 Council on Foreign Relations

 Counter Extremism Project (CEP)

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

 Department of Defense (DOD)

 Department of Defense, Inspector General (DODIG)

 Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

 Department of Homeland Security Inspector General

  • OIG-22-03 Many Factors Hinder ICE's Ability to Maintain Adequate Medical Staffing at Detention Facilities 
  • OIG-22-04 DHS Continues to Make Progress Meeting DATA Act Requirements, but Challenges Remain 
  • OIG-22-07 FEMA Did Not Always Accurately Report COVID-19 Contract Actions in the Federal Procurement Data System 

 Department of State

 Department of State Inspector General

 Department of the Air Force

 Dragos

 East-West Center

 Economic Research Forum

 Egmont Institute

 Elliot School of International Affairs - Central Asia Program

 Ethiopian Human Rights Commission and United Nations Human Rights Commissioner

 EU Joint Research Centre (JRC)

 European Asylum Support Office (EASO) 

 European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)

 European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Hybrid CoE)

 European Council on Foreign Relations

 European Network for Economic and Fiscal Policy Research (EconPol)

 European Policy Centre (EPC)

 European Union

 European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)

 EUROPOL 

 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

  • FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, November 2021 
    • Executive Decision-Making Using Intelligence
    • History Can Inform Contemporary Law Enforcement Strategy
    • Drawing Your Own Conclusions
    • Lunch and Learn

 Federal Research Bank of New York 

 Federation of American Scientists (FAS)

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (Ulkopoliittinen instituutti)

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

 Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)

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

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

 German Development Institute

 Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

 Globsec

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

  • COVID-19: HHS Agencies' Planned Reviews of Vaccine Distribution and Communication Efforts Should Include Stakeholder Perspectives GAO-22-104457 
  • COVID-19: State Carried Out Historic Repatriation Effort but Should Strengthen Its Preparedness for Future Crises GAO-22-104354 
  • Critical Infrastructure Protection: Education Should Take Additional Steps to Help Protect K-12 Schools from Cyber Threats GAO-22-105024 
  • Evidence-Based Policymaking: Survey Results Suggest Increased Use of Performance Information Across the Federal Government GAO-22-103910 
  • Missile Defense: Recent Acquisition Policy Changes Balance Risk and Flexibility, but Actions Needed to Refine Requirements Process GAO-22-563 
  • Missing or Murdered Indigenous Women: New Efforts Are Underway but Opportunities Exist to Improve the Federal Response GAO-22-104045 
  • Science and Tech Spotlight: Alternative Materials for Solar Cells GAO-22-105378 

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS) 

 Hedayah International Center of Excellence for Countering Violent Extremism

 Heritage Foundation

 Hudson Institute

 Human Rights Watch

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

 Institute for China-America Studies (ICAS)

 Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

 Institute for Integrated Transitions (IFIT)

 Institute for National Strategic Studies

 Institute for Science and International Security

 Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP)

 Institute for Security Studies [Africa]

 Institute for Strategic Dialogue  

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

 Institute for the Study of War 

 Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

 Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS) 

 Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA)

 International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

 International Centre for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence (ICSR)

 International Crisis Group

 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

 International Peace Institute (IPI)

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

 Jamestown Foundation

  • China Brief, November 5, 2021, v. 21, no. 21 
    • Chinese Government’s Push for Masculinity Targets Boy Bands, Online Influencers
    • Power of the Weak: Taiwan’s Strategy in Countering China’s Economic Coercion
    • China’s Vocational Education Workshops Seek to Strengthen Relations with Africa
    • Western Sanctions on Belarus’s Potash Industry Test Beijing-Minsk Partnership
    • How Confucius Institutes Shape Arab Perceptions of China in the Middle East
  • Terrorism Monitor, November 5, 2021, v. 19, no. 21 
    • Ethiopia’s Tigray Defense Forces Advance Toward Addis Ababa
    • The Haqqani Network’s Martyr: Inside Afghan Taliban Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani’s Reception Honoring Suicide Bombers
    • Iran’s Impending Military Intervention in Iraqi Kurdistan: Catalysts and Unintended Consequences

 Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies - China-Africa Research Initiative

 Lowy Institute for International Relations

 Macdonald-Laurier Institute

 Marine Corps University Press (MCUP)

  • Expeditions with MCUP  
    • Limited Wars in the Periphery: The Dilemma of American Military Assistance
    • The Integration of the Evidence-Based Framework and Military Judgment and Decision-Making
    • Evaluating Military Cross-Cultural Training Programs
    • The American and Joint Origins of Operational Depth in the Meuse-Argonne Campaign
    • Exploring Evidence-Based Management in Military Planning Processes as a Critically Appraised Topic
    • The Desert War: Marine Corps Aviation in Desert Storm, January-February 1991
    • How Can the United States Move toward Gender-Neutral Special Forces?: Lessons from the Norwegian Military
    • The Operational Warfare Revolution: How Operational Art Can Prepare the Marine Corps for an Era of Great Power Competition
    • The Finely-Honed Blade: Clausewitz and Boyd on Friction and Moral Factors
    • Military Competition between the United States and China in the South China Sea: A Critical Analysis
    • To Win without Fighting: Defining China's Political Warfare
    • Policy, Perception, and Misperception: The United States and the Fall of the Shah
    • Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: Its Foreign Policy and Foreign Legion
    • Lake Chad: Changing Hydrography, Violent Extremism, and Climate-Conflict Intersection
    • Water Scarcity in Brazil: A Case Study
    • Freedom’s “Flying Snake”: The AIM-9 Sidewinder in the Cold War

 Middle East Institute (MEI)

 Migration Policy Institute (MPI) 

 Millennium Cohort Study

 MilitaryOneSource

National Academies Press

 National Association of State CIOs (NASCIO)

 National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGIA)

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

 National Institute of Justice (NIJ)

  • Desistance from Crime: Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice 
    • Chapter 1: But What Does It Mean? Defining, Measuring, and Analyzing Desistance from Crime in Criminal Justice
    • Chapter 2: Biosocial Factors and Their Influence on Desistance
    • Chapter 3: The Impact of Incarceration on the Desistance Process Among Individuals Who Chronically Engage in Criminal Activity
    • Chapter 4: Desistance-Focused Criminal Justice Practice
    • Chapter 5: International Perspectives and Lessons Learned on Desistance
    • Chapter 6: Pathways to Desistance from Crime Among Juveniles and Adults: Applications to Criminal Justice Policy and Practice

 National Security Archive

 NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence

 NATO Defense College

 NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence

 Naval War College

 Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI)

 New America

 Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (NUPI)

 NSI's Strategic Multilayer Assessment (SMA) program

 Observer Research Foundation

 Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

 Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

 Pew Research Center 

 Polish Institute of International Affairs

 Potomac Institute for Policy Studies

 Protect Democracy

 Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

 RAND Corporation

 Republic of China on Taiwan

 Revolving Door Project

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

 S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

 The Sentry

 Small Wars Journal

 South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

 Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

  • SIGAR-22-05-AR  Bagram Airfield Security: Army Contracting Command Did Not Ensure That Private Security Contractor Fully Complied with Contract Terms, And Potentially Overpaid for Services by $850,000  

 Stanley Center

 Stimson Center

 Taylor & Francis 

 UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) 

 UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

 UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

 US Holocaust Museum

 US Institute for Peace (USIP)

 US Marine Corps (USMC)

 US Office of Special Counsel

 Veterans and Citizens Initiative

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

 White House (Executive Office of the President)

 Wilson Center

 World Bank

 World Economic Forum

 World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)