Sunday, May 21, 2023

Friday's Miscellany 05-12-2023 & 05-19-2023

 38 North

 AidData

 Al Jazeera Center for Studies

 American Enterprise Institute

 Amnesty International

 Army War College Press

 Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)

 Asia-Pacific Leadership Network (APLN)

 Atlantic Council

 Australian National University Press

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

 Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA)

 Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

 Brookings Institution  

 Brown University, Costs of War Project

 Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

 Cato Institute

 Center for American Progress (CAP)

 Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

 Center for Global Development

 Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies (ORSAM)

 Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

  • No. 323: Reaching for the Stars: China's Space Ambitions 
  • No. 324: NATO and Article 5 in Cyberspace 

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

 Center for the Study of Intelligence (CSI))

 Center on Global Energy Policy

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

 Centre for Information Resilience (CIR)

 Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST)

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

 Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations 

 College of Europe

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

 Congressional-Executive Commission on China

 Council on Strategic Risks (CSR)

 Council to Secure the Digital Economy (CSDE)

 Counter Extremism Project

 Customs and Border Protection (CBP)

 Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

 Defense Business Board (DBB)

 Defense Personnel and Security Center (PERSEREC)

 Department of Defense (DOD)

 Department of Defense, Inspector General (DODIG)

 Department of Justice

 Department of State

 Department of the Navy

 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 Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)

 EUROPOL

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

 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 Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

 German Marshall Fund of the United States

 Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

 Government Accountability Office (GAO

  • 340B Drug Discount Program: Information about Hospitals That Received an Eligibility Exception as a Result of COVID-19 GAO-23-106095 
  • Advanced Pilot Trainer: Program Success Hinges on Better Managing Its Schedule and Providing Oversight GAO-23-106205 
  • Artificial Intelligence: Key Practices to Help Ensure Accountability in Federal Use GAO-23-106811 
  • Aviation Workforce: Current and Future Availability of Airline Pilots and Aircraft Mechanics GAO-23-105571 
  • Broadband: A National Strategy Needed to Coordinate Fragmented, Overlapping Federal Programs GAO-23-106818 
  • Cloud Security: Selected Agencies Need to Fully Implement Key Practices GAO-23-105482 
  • Coast Guard: Recruitment and Retention Challenges Persist GAO-23-106750 
  • COVID Relief: Fraud Schemes and Indicators in SBA Pandemic Programs GAO-23-105331 
  • Cybersecurity: DOT Defined Roles and Responsibilities, but Additional Oversight Needed GAO-23-106031 
  • Electronic Health Records: Challenges with VA's New System Call for Management Improvements GAO-23-106785 
  • Electronic Health Records: VA Needs to Address Management Challenges with New System GAO-23-106731 
  • Emergency Alerts: NOAA Should Take Additional Actions to Help Ensure Tsunami Alerts Reach Those at Risk GAO-23-105961 
  • Export Promotion: Commerce Should Improve Workforce Planning and Management of Its Global Markets Unit GAO-23-105369 
  • Federal Facilities: Improved Oversight Needed for Security Recommendations GAO-23-105649 
  • FEMA: Opportunities to Strengthen Management and Address Increasing Challenges GAO-23-106840 
  • Homelessness: Enhanced Coordination Could Improve Disaster Shelter and Housing Assistance GAO-23-105379 
  • Information and Communications Technology: DOD Needs to Fully Implement Foundational Practices to Manage Supply Chain Risks GAO-23-105612 
  • Information Technology: Agencies Need to Continue Addressing Critical Legacy Systems GAO-23-106821 
  • Missile Defense: Annual Goals Unmet for Deliveries and Testing GAO-23-106011 
  • The Nation's Fiscal Health: Road Map Needed to Address Projected Unsustainable Debt Levels GAO-23-106201 
  • Priority Open Recommendations: Department of State GAO-23-106531 
  • Priority Open Recommendations: Office of the Director of National Intelligence GAO-23-106579 
  • Priority Open Recommendations: U.S. Agency for International Development GAO-23-106534 
  • Public Health Preparedness: Critical Need to Address Deficiencies in HHS's Leadership and Coordination of Emergencies GAO-23-106829 
  • Servicemembers Transitioning to Civilian Life: DOD Could Enhance the Transition Assistance Program by Better Leveraging Performance Information GAO-23-106793 
  • Sustainable Aviation Fuel: Agencies Should Track Progress Toward Ambitious Federal Goals [Reissued with Revisions May 17, 2023] GAO-23-105300 
  • Veterans Health Care: Staffing Challenges and Recommendations for Improvement GAO-23-106836 
  • World Bank: Borrower Countries' Contracts to Businesses in the U.S. and to Entities Potentially on U.S. Sanctions or Other Lists of Concern GAO-23-105543 

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

 Henry L. Stimson Center

 Heritage Foundation

 Hudson Institute

 Human Rights Watch

 IJ Infinity Group

  • Military Strategy Magazine, Spring 2023, v. 8, no. 4 
    • A Strategist’s Guide to Disruptive Innovation
    • A Quintessential Factor in Strategy Formulation: The Unequal Dialogue
    • Cold Wars, Grey Zones, and Strategic Competition: Applying Theories of War to Strategy in the 21st Century
    • Securing Oman for Development: Sultan Qaboos Confronts his Enemies, 1970-1976
    • Will Artificial General Intelligence Change the Nature of War?
    • What Should a Strategist Know and Do, and Why

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

 Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT)

 Institute for Integrated Transitions (IFIT)

 Institute for Science and International Security

 Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP)

 Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) 

 Institute for Strategic Research at the Military School (IRSEM)

 Institute for the Study of War

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

 Irregular Warfare Center (IWC) 

 Jamestown Foundation

  • Terrorism Monitor, May 12,  2023, v. 21, no. 10 
    • Brief: ISWAP Attacks Northern Nigerian State of Jigawa for First Time
    • Brief: Belgium Grapples with Lasting Impact of Islamic State Attacks
    • The Implications of the Arrest of Imran Khan on Pakistan's Stability
    • West Papuan Insurgents Increase Attacks in Bid to Gain International Attention
    • US-Backed Proxy Strengthens Iranian Hand in Intra-Kurdish Struggle

 Lowy Institute for International Relations

 Marsh McLennan

 Mercator Institute for China Studies

 MITRE 

 National Academies Press 

 National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)

 National Defence University (Pakistan)

  • NDU Journal 2023, v. 37, no. 37 
    • Political Drivers of India's Ballistic Missile Defence Programme and Implications for South Asian Security
    • Doctrinal Shift in the Indian Army after 2018: Implications for Pakistan
    • From Crisis Onset to De-Escalation: Examining Role of Crisis Management in the Pulwama Crisis
    • India's Cyber Warfare Capabilities: Repercussions for Pakistan's National Security
    • India-US Strategic Convergence: Implications for Strategic Balance in South Asia
    • Iran's Look East Policy: A Step towards Countering Western Pressures
    • Neo-Mercantilism and Globalisation: A Case Study of China's Belt and Road Initiative
    • Roadmap for the Political and Legal Resolution of the Kashmir Dispute

 National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) 

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

  • SP 800-124 Rev. 2 Guidelines for Managing the Security of Mobile Devices in the Enterprise 

 Naval War College 

 Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI)

 Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC)

 NSI's Strategic Multilayer Assessment (SMA) Program

 Observer Research Foundation

 Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)

 Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

 Pew Research Center

 Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

 RAND Corporation

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

 SAFE

 Sentry

 Small Arms Survey

 Small Wars Journal

 Soufan Center

 South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

 Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS)

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

 Takshashila Institution

 Taylor & Francis

 UK Ministry of Defense

 UK Parliament

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

 UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

 U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission

 US Institute of Peace (USIP)

 United States Studies Centre (USSC)

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

 Wilson Center