Monday, September 4, 2023

Friday's Miscellany 08-25-2023 & 09-01-2023

 38 North

 Accenture

 African Center for Strategic Studies

 Air University Press

 Alan Turning Institute

 American Meteorological Society (AMS)

 American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

 Amnesty International

 Arab Center for Research & Policy Studies

 Arctic Institute

 Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

  • Medical Surveillance Monthly Report (MSMR), July 2032, v. 30, no. 7 
    • Morbidity Burdens Attributable to Various Illnesses and Injuries Among Deployed Active and Reserve Component Service Members, U.S. Armed Forces, 2022
    • Medical Evacuations out of U.S. Central and U.S. Africa Command Among Active and Reserve Components, U.S. Armed Forces, 2022
    • Absolute and Relative Morbidity Burdens Attributable to Various Illnesses and Injuries Among Non-Service Member Beneficiaries of the Military Health System, 2022
    • Surveillance Snapshot: Illness and Injury Burdens Among Reserve Component Members, U.S. Armed Forces, 2022
    • Surveillance Snapshot: Illness and Injury Burdens Among Reserve Component Members, U.S. Coast Guard, 2022
    • Reportable Medical Events, Military Health System Facilities, Week 22, Ending June 3, 2023

 Army Cyber Institute (ACI)

Army Special Operations Forces (ARSOF)

 Army War College

  • 2023 Annual Estimate of the Strategic Security Environment 
  • Parameters, Autumn 2023, no. 53, no. 3 
    • A Historical Perspective on Today’s Recruiting Crisis
    • A Call to Action: Lessons from Ukraine for the Future Force
    • The Strategic Importance of Taiwan to the United States and Its Allies: Part Two – Policy since the Start of the Russia-Ukraine War
    • The Impact of Antarctic Treaty Challenges on the US Military
    • US-Russia Foreign Policy: Confronting Russia’s Geographic Anxieties
    • Urban Resistance to Occupation: An Underestimated Element of Land Warfare
    • The Chechen Kadyrovtsy’s Coercive Violence in Ukraine
    • SRAD Director's Corner: US Army War College Russia-Ukraine War Study Project

 ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

 Atlantic Council

 Australian Institute of Criminology

  • Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, 2023, no. 677 
    • Corrections agencies' use of digital service delivery applications during COVID-19

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

 Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA)

 Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

 Brookings Institution

 Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (Cyber Centre)

 Cato Institute

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

 Center for Climate Security (CCS)

 Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

 Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis (CIRA)

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

  • Policy Perspectives v 11, no.  3  
    • Mind the E-Waste: A Case for Switzerland

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) 

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

 Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST)

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

 Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

 College of Europe

 Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

  • CTC Sentinel, August 2023, v. 16, no. 8 
    • Calibrated Counterterrorism: Actively Suppressing International Terrorism
    • The Enduring Duel: Islamic State Khorasan’s Survival under Afghanistan’s New Rulers
    • Caliphs of the Shadows: The Islamic State’s Leaders Post-Mawla
    • The Russian Imperial Movement in the Ukraine Wars: 2014-2023

 Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)       

 Council on Strategic Risks (CSR)

 Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

 Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)

 Department of Defense (DOD)

 Department of Homeland Security Inspector General

  • OIG 23-48 CBP's Management of International Mail Facilities Puts Officer Safety and Mission Requirements at Risk 
  • OIG 23-46 The United States Coast Guard Needs to Determine the Impact and Effectiveness of Its Streamlined Inspection Program 
  • OIG 23-45 CBP Could Do More to Plan for Facilities Along the Southwest Border 
  • OIG 23-44 Cybersecurity System Review of the Transportation Security Administration's Selected High Value Asset 
  • OIG 23-43 CBP Implemented Effective Technical Controls to Secure a Selected Tier 1 High Value Asset System 
  • OIG-23-42 Ineffective Controls Over COVID-19 Funeral Assistance Leave the Program Susceptible to Waste and Abuse 
  • OIG-23-41 ICE Has Limited Ability to Identify and Combat Trade-Based Money Laundering Schemes 
  • OIG-23-40 USCIS Has Generally Met Statutory Requirements to Adjudicate Asylum Applications from Paroled Afghan  Evacuees 

 Energy Information Administration (EIA)

 European Parliament Think Tank

 European Union (EU)

 European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

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

 French Military School Strategic Research Institute (Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l'Ecole Militaire)

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

 German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik) 

 German Marshall Fund of the United States

 Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

  • Airport Infrastructure: Selected Airports' Efforts to Enhance Electrical Resilience GAO-23-105203 
  • Building Partner Capacity: DOD and State Should Strengthen Planning for Train and Equip Projects GAO-23-105842 
  • Building Partner Capacity: DOD Should Assess Delivery Delays in Train and Equip Projects and Improve Evaluations GAO-23-106275 
  • Defense Contracting: DOD’s Use of Federal Prison Industries GAO-23-106240 
  • Defense Health Care: DOD Should Reevaluate Market Structure for Military Medical Treatment Facility Management GAO-23-105441 
  • DHS Acquisitions: Opportunities Exist to Enhance Risk Management GAO-23-106249 
  • Export-Import Bank: Monitoring of Exports with Dual Military and Civilian Uses as of 2023 GAO-23-106877 
  • Homeland Security: Joint Requirements Council Needs Leadership Attention to Improve Effectiveness GAO-23-106125 
  • Nuclear Power: NRC Needs to Take Additional Actions to Prepare to License Advanced Reactors GAO-23-105997 
  • Nuclear Weapons: Program Management Improvements Would Benefit U.S. Efforts to Build New Experimental Capabilities GAO-23-105714 
  • Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps: Actions Needed to Better Monitor Diversity Progress GAO-23-105857 
  • Trauma-Informed Care: Challenges to Developing and Implementing Performance Partnership Pilots to Serve Children GAO-23-106538 

 Heritage Foundation

 Hudson Institute

 Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT)

 Institute for Science and International Security

 Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP)

 Institute for Security Studies [Africa]

 Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD)  

 Institute for the Study of War

 International Crisis Group

 International Organization for Migration (IOM)

 Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs

 Jamestown Foundation

  • Terrorism Monitor, August 21,  2023, v. 21, no. 17 
    • Brief: Dogo Gide’s Bandits in Northwestern Nigeria Potentially Aligning With Jihadists
    • Brief: New Islamic State Caliph Inherits Renewed Syrian Insurgency
    • Arrests of Central Asian Jihadists in Germany and the Netherlands Reveals Persistent Islamic State Threat to Europe
    • TJP: A Front Group for the Pakistani Taliban?
    • Pakistani Taliban Broaden Support Among Baloch, Merge With Separatist Groups

 Marine Corps University Middle East Studies

  • MES Insights, August 2023, v. 14, no. 4 
    • Strengthening the Brittle Rare Earth Element Supply Chain amid Revisionist Alignment: Natural Resource Lessons from the Russia-Ukraine War

 Meta

 Middle East Institute (MEI)

 MITRE Corporation

 National Academies Press 

 National Security Archive

 National Security Space Association (NSSA)

 NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence

 NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence

 New America

 NYC Pandemic Response Institute

 Observer Research Foundation

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

 Our World in Data

 Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

 Pew Research Center  

 Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

 Radicalisation Awareness Network Centre of Excellence

 RAND Corporation

 Real Instituto Elcano

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

 Sheffield Hallam University

 South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

 Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)

 Takshashila Institution

 Taylor & Francis

 Toda Peace Institute

 UK Ministry of Defense

 UK Parliament

 UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA)

 UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

 UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI)

 US Institute of Peace (USIP)

 Wilson Center

 World Bankhtt