Thursday, October 5, 2023

Friday's Miscellany 09-22-2023 & 09-28-2023

 38 North 

 AidData  

 Air University Press

  • Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs, September 2023, v. 6, no. 6 
    • Redesigning the United States–Philippines Security Partnership: A Nodal Defense Approach to the Indo-Pacific
    • Laws on LAWS: Regulating the Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems
    • The Rise and Fall of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action 
    • Women, Peace, and Security in the Indo-Pacific: US Personnel Views from the Ground
    • Understanding the Failure of the US Security Transfer during the Vietnam War
    • The Import of Hybrid Activities in the South China Sea
    • Modernization and the Military-Civil Fusion Strategy
    • Deterring China in the South Pacific: Send in the Seabees
    • Sri Lanka’s Strategic Dilemma: Navigating Great-Power Rivalry in the Indo-Pacific
    • What Would Victory Against China Look Like?
    • Fostering Hope: Three “Good Elements” for a Promising US–Vietnam Strategic Partnership
  • Journal of the Americas, 2023, v. 5, no. 2 
    • Counterspace Weapons: Strategic Implications for Emerging Spacepower Nations
    • Employing Strategic Cyber Competition in Latin America: A Senior Cyber Leader Mission
    • The Slipping Linchpin: The Evolution of Sino-Argentinian Relations and their Effect on American Hegemony in the Western Hemisphere
    • Could America Re-Experience another Cuban Missile Crisis in the Near Future?
    • Unburdened by History: Understanding Russia’s Growing Influence in Haiti
    • Chile’s Joint Initiative with the US: Implications and lessons learned for Joint Multinational Relationships
    • The Role of the Colombian Air Force in the National COVID-19 Vaccination Plan (NVP)

 Al Jazeera Center for Studies

 American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

 Amnesty International

 Anti-Defamation League (ADL)

 Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)

 Atlantic Council

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

 Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES)

 Brookings

 Bruegel

 Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

 Cato Institute 

 Center for American Progress

 Center for Global Development

 Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC)

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

  • Russian Analytical Digest
    • No. 301: Domestic and International Reverberations from Russia's War on Ukraine 

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

 Centre for Information Resilience (CIR)

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

 Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA)

 Chatham House

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

 China Observers in Central and Eastern Europe

 Clingendael Institute - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

 Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

  • CTC Sentinel, September 2023, v. 16, no. 9 
    • CTC-ICT Focus on Israel: In Word and Deed? Global Jihad and the Threat to Israel and the Jewish Community
    • After Prigozhin: The Future of the Wagner Model in Africa
    • The Islamic State’s Shadow Governance in Eastern Syria Since the Fall of Baghuz

 Defense Personnel and Security Center (PERSEREC)

 Department of Commerce

 Department of Defense (DOD)

 Department of Defense, Inspector General (DODIG)

  • DODIG-2023-117 Audit of Army’s Oversight for Ukraine-Specific Logistics Civil Augmentation Program V Services in the U.S. European Command Area of Responsibility 
  • DODIG-2023-124 Evaluation of the Military Criminal Investigative Organizations’ Adult Sexual Assault Investigations 

 Department of Homeland Security Inspector General

  • OIG-23-49 FEMA’s Technological Hazards Division Assisted State, Local, and Tribal Governments in Preparing to Respond to Radiological and Chemical Incidents 
  • OIG-23-50 Results of Unannounced Inspections of CBP Holding Facilities in the El Paso Area 
  • OIG-23-51 Results of an Unannounced Inspection of ICE's Caroline Detention Facility in Bowling Green, Virginia 
  • OIG-23-52 ICE Did Not Accurately Measure and Report Its Progress in Disrupting or Dismantling Transnational Criminal Organizations 
  • OIG-23-53 Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology System Compliance with 28 C.F.R. Part 23 
  • OIG-23-54 CBP Needs to Improve Its Video and Audio Coverage at Land Ports of Entry 
  • OIG-23-55 DHS Needs to Improve Annual Monitoring of Major Acquisition Programs to Ensure They Continue to Meet Department Needs 
  • OIG-23-56 CBP Did Not Effectively Conduct International Mail Screening or Implement the STOP Act - (REDACTED) 
  • OIG-23-57 Better TSA Tracking and Follow-up for the 2021 Security Directives Implementation Should Strengthen Pipeline Cybersecurity - (REDACTED) 
  • OIG-23-58 DHS Needs to Update Its Strategy to Better Manage Its Biometric Capability Needs 
  • OIG-23-59 ICE Should Improve Controls Over Its Transportation Services Contracts 
  • OIG-23-60 CBP Accounted for Its Firearms but Did Not Always Account for Ammunition or Monitor Storage Facilities 
  • OIG-23-61 CBP, ICE, and Secret Service Did Not Adhere to Privacy Policies or Develop Sufficient Policies Before Procuring and Using Commercial Telemetry Data - (REDACTED) 
  • OIG-23-62 Results of Unannounced Inspections of CBP Holding Facilities in the Laredo Area 

 Department of State

 European Asylum Support Office (EASO)            

 European Council on Foreign Relations               

 European Union (EU)

 European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

 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)

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

 German Council on Foreign Relations

 German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

 German Marshall Fund of the United States

 Global China Initiative (Boston University)

 Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

 Global Public Policy Institute (GPPI)

 Globsec

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

  • COVID-19: U.S. Territory Experiences Could Inform Future Federal Relief GAO-23-106050 
  • COVID-19: USAID Plans to Share Lessons Learned from Efforts to Meet Global Vaccination Goal GAO-23-105579 
  • COVID-19 Provider Relief Fund: HRSA Continues to Recover Remaining Payments Due from Providers GAO-23-106083 
  • Critical Infrastructure Protection: National Cybersecurity Strategy Needs to Address Information Sharing Performance Measures and Methods GAO-23-105468 
  • F-35 Aircraft: DOD and the Military Services Need to Reassess the Future Sustainment Strategy GAO-23-105341 
  • Military Barracks: Poor Living Conditions Undermine Quality of Life and Readiness GAO-23-105797 
  • Military Housing: Strengthened Oversight Needed to Make and Sustain Improvements to Living Conditions GAO-23-107038 
  • Persistent Chemicals: Detecting, Limiting Exposure To, and Treating PFAS Contamination GAO-23-106970 
  • Pretrial Supervision: Actions Needed to Enhance Management of the Location Monitoring Program GAO-23-105873 
  • Science and Engineering Statistics: Improved Communication Needed with Stakeholders on Data Needs GAO-23-106361 

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

 Hedayah International Center of Excellence for Countering Violent Extremism

 Henley Putnam University

  • Journal of Strategic Security, 2023, v. 16, no. 3 Urban Security 
    • Civil Affairs in Antwerp 1944-1945: Critical Infrastructure and Civil Defense
    • Urban Disaster Wrought by Man: The Battle for Manila, 1945
    • Virtual Urban Siege: Modern Urban Siege and Swarming in Culiacán 2019 & 2023
    • Implementing NIMS: Lessons Learned from the Boston Marathon Bombing
    • Urban Warfare: The Recent Israeli Experience
    • Artificial Intelligence and Urban Operations
    • Wide Area Motion Imagery and the Colonial Antecedents of Surveillance
    • The Battles of Hue: Understanding Urban Conflicts through Wargaming
    • Why Cities Fail: The Urban Security Crisis in Ecuador
    • The Political Trajectory of Urban Violence: Organized Crime in Michoacán’s Apatzingán

 Heritage Foundation

 Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)

 Hoover Institution

  • Strategika, no. 87 The Russian Way of War 
    • The Crusade Against Ukraine: Eurasia’s Last Medieval Power At War
    • The Russian Way of War
    • Ukraine and the Russian Way of War

 Hudson Institute

 Human Rights Watch

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

 Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA) 

 Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP)

 Institute for the Study of War

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

 International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

 International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

 International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR)

 International Crisis Group

 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

 International Peace Institute (IPI)

 Irregular Warfare Center

 Jamestown Foundation

  • China Brief, September 22, 2023, v. 23, no. 17 
    • MSS WeChat Sets the Tone for the National Security State
    • CCP Renews Political Loyalty Indoctrination
    • Xi’s Personnel Mismanagement
    • AI Strategies in the PLA’s Coastal and Air Defense
    • Transnational Crime on the China-Myanmar Border

 Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) Press

 Marine Corps University Press

 Middle East Institute (MEI)

 National Academies Press  

 National Bureau of Asian Research

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

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

 National Security Archive

 Naval War College

 Observer Research Foundation

 Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)

 Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

 Pew Research Center

 Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board

 Project 2049 

 RAND Corporation

 Renew Democracy Initiative (RDI)

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

 Small Wars Journal

 Special Inspector General Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

  • SIGAR 23-32-FA USAID’s Afghan Children Read Program: Audit of Costs Incurred by Creative Associates International Inc. 

 Stockholm Center for Eastern European Studies (SCEES)

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

 Taylor & Francis

 US Institute of Peace (USIP)

 Uyghur Human Rights Project

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy