Monday, February 21, 2022

Friday's Miscellany 02-11-022

38 North

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

 Al Jazeera Center for Studies

 Amnesty International

 Army War College Press

 Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)

 Atlantic Council

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

 Baker Institute for Public Policy  

 Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)

 Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

 Beyond the Parallel 

 Bipartisan Policy Center

 Blair Institute for Global Change

Brown University, Watson Institute Costs of War Project

 Cato Institute

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

 Center for Climate and Security

 Center for Global Development

 Center for Global Security Research (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

 Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies (ORSAM)

 Center for Naval Analyses

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

 Center for Strategic & International Studies  (CSIS)

 Center for the Study of Intelligence

 Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies 

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) 

 Centre for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC)

 Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies

  • Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, 2022, v. 21, no. 3
    • From the Great Influenza to COVID-19: Epidemics of Scale through a Historical Lens
    • The Realm of More or Less: Critical Infrastructure and Public Order Factors for Pandemic Strategy
    • “Open for Summer:” The Political Failure of Alberta’s COVID-19 Response
    • You May not be Interested in COVID, but COVID is Interested in You

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (Air University)

 Clingendael Netherlands Institute of International Relations

 Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

 Commission on Combating Synthetic Opioid Trafficking

 Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations

 Congressional-Executive Commission on China

 Department of Defense (DOD)

 Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

 Department of Homeland Security Inspector General 

  • OIG-22-25 FEMA Should Apply Lessons Learned from the STEP Pilot Program Implementation in Puerto Rico to Future Programs
  • OIG-22-26 CBP Border Patrol Stations and Ports of Entry in Southern California Generally Met TEDS Standards
  • OIG-22-27  CBP Officials Implemented Rapid DNA Testing to Verify Claimed Parent-Child Relationships

 Department of the Interior Inspector General

  • 18-0890 Former Secretary Did Not Comply With Ethical Obligations and Duty of Candor

 Department of the Army

 Department of Veterans Affairs, Inspector General

  • Report #21-01505-68  Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Summary Report: Evaluation of Care Coordination in Veterans Health Administration Facilities, Fiscal Year 2020
  • Report #21-03260-60  Independent Review of VA’s Special Disabilities Capacity Report for Fiscal Year 2020

 Egmont—The Royal Institute of International Affairs

 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

  • FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, February 2022
    • Using Research for Investigative Decision-Making
    • The National Data Exchange (N-DEx): A Leader in Information Sharing
    • Community Outreach Spotlight: “COPTOBER” Community Fair
    • Notable Speech: Better Together
    • The FBI National Academy's Yellow Brick Road — 40th Anniversary

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

 European Council on Foreign Relations               

 European Leadership Network (ELN)

 European Parliament Think Tank

 European Policy Centre (EPC)

 European Union (EU)

 European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

 Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)

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

 German Development Institute

 German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

 German Marshall Fund of the United States

 Globsec

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

  • COVID-19: Federal Efforts to Provide Vaccines to Racial and Ethnic Groups GAO-22-105079
  • COVID-19: Federal Telework Increased During the Pandemic, but More Reliable Data Are Needed to Support Oversight GAO-22-104282
  • Critical Infrastructure Protection: Agencies Need to Assess Adoption of Cybersecurity Guidance GAO-22-105103
  • Defense Management: DOD Should Collect More Stakeholder Input and Performance Data on Its Congressional Reporting Process GAO-22-105183
  • Emergency Rental Assistance: Additional Grantee Monitoring Needed to Manage Known Risks GAO-22-105490
  • Human and Drug Trafficking: Actions Needed to Address Gaps in Federal Data to Counter Illicit Activities GAO-22-105707
  • Navy Ship Maintenance: Actions Needed to Monitor and Address the Performance of Intermediate Maintenance Periods GAO-22-104510
  • Virtual Currencies: Additional Information Could Improve Federal Agency Efforts to Counter Human and Drug Trafficking [Reissued with Revisions Feb. 7, 2022] GAO-22-105462

 Henry Jackson Society

 Heritage Foundation

 Human Rights Watch

 Indian Council of World Affairs

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

 Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC)

 Institute for Security Studies [Africa]

 Institute for the Study of War

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

 International Center for Counter Terrorism (ICCT)

 International Crisis Group

 Ireland Commission on the Defence Forces

 Jamestown Foundation

  • China Brief, February 11, 2022, v. 22, no. 3 
    • All Necessary Measures: China’s Shifting Approach to U.S.-Taiwan Relations
    • China and Pakistan: Strains in the All-Weather Partnership?
    • The Evolution of the PLA’s Enlisted Force: Training (Part Two)
    • Chinese Security Narratives in the New Afghan Context: Xinjiang and the Recycling of the “ETIM” Threat
    • What is at Stake in China-Bhutan Boundary Negotiations?
  • Terrorism Monitor, February 10, 2022, v. 20, no. 3 
    • Al-Hasakah Prison Break Sparks Fear of Islamic State Resurgence in Iraq
    • The Taliban Takeover in Afghanistan and Militant Mergers Bolster Baluch Insurgents in Pakistan
    • Ties that Bind? Deconstructing the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban’s Partnership and Counter-Terrorism Options for Pakistan

 Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics

 Mitchell Institute

 MITRE

 Modern Warfare Institute

 National Academies Press


 National Endowment for Defense (NED)

 National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS)

  • International Forum on War History 2020 Proceedings  
    • The Security Environment in Modern East Asia
    • Reconstructing the History of Modern East Asia
    • Pan-Asianism in Modern Japan and the East Asian Regional Order
    • Modern China’s Foreign Relations and East Asia
    • Going Their Separate Ways: The British Empire, Japan, and Reordering Asia between the World Wars
    • The Soviet Far Eastern Strategy and International Order
  • Security & Strategy, v. 2, January 2022 
    • PLA’s Perception about the Impact of AI on Military Affairs
    • PLA’s Intelligentized Warfare: The Politics on China’s Military Strategy
    • Assessing the Current Status of and Prospects for Efforts towards Norm Formation in Cyberspace
    • China’s “Japan Neutralization” Policy and its Perception of Japan’s Circumstances: The Case of the Divide and Rule Policy toward the LDP in “the Age of Discontinuity” in Japan-China Relation
    • The Koumintang Army in the War Termination Process of 1945: From Counterattack against Japan to Restoration of Authority
    • The Japanese Army’s Measures against Guerrilla Activities in the Philippines in the First Half of the Pacific War

 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

  • NISTIR 8286B Prioritizing Cybersecurity Risk for Enterprise Risk Manage

 National Security Archive

 NATO Defense College

 NATO Library

 Naval War College

 Observer Research Foundation

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

 Our World in Data

 Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

 Pew Research Center

 Policy Exchange (UK)

 Polish Institute of International Affairs

 Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED)

 Radicalisation Awareness Network Centre of Excellence

 RAND Corporation

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

 Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

 S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

 Small Wars Journal 

 South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) 

 Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)

 Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

  • SIGAR-22-12-AR DOD Efforts to Recruit, Retain, and Train Women in the Former Afghan National Defense Security Forces: DOD Could Not Show Why It Selected Specific Projects and Did Not Measure Their Effectiveness

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

 Swisspeace

 Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (SJAC)

 Taylor & Francis

 UK Energy Research Centre

 UK Ministry of Defence

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

 UN Security Council

 US-China Economic and Security Review Commission

 US Institute of Peace (USIP)

 University of Texas, Austin

  • Texas National Security Review, 5, no. 2, Spring 2022  
    • Serenity, Courage, and Wisdom
    • Were Drone Strikes Effective? Evaluating the Drone Campaign in Pakistan Through Captured al-Qaeda Documents
    • The Role of Emotions in Military Strategy
    • Countering Hybrid Warfare: Mapping Social Contracts to Reinforce Societal Resiliency in Estonia and Beyond
    • Disease Outbreak and National Security: Drawing Lessons from the COVID-19 Crisis to Improve Emergency Response
    • Not a Suicide Pact: Urgent Strategic Recommendations for Reducing Domestic Terrorism in the United States

 Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP)

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy  

 White House

 World Economic Forum