Monday, November 6, 2023

Friday's Miscellany 10-27-2023 & 11-3-2023

 38 North

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

 Air University Press

  • Air & Space Operations Review, Fall 2023, v. 2, no. 3 
    • Failures of the Russian Aerospace Forces in Ukraine
    • Microgrids: Energy Security for Overseas Bases
    • The Silver Lining in Information Warfare
    • Optimizing Security Forces Operations: Employing Risk-Based Strategies
    • Remaining a Day-One Player: The French Air and Space Force and US Air Force

 American Security Project (ASP)

 Amnesty International

 Anti-Defamation League (ADL)

 Army Center of Military History

  • Army History Magazine, Summer 2023, no. 128 
    • “Armies are Not Mere Machines”: The 17th Vermont and 31st Maine in The Second Battle of Petersburg
    • The Seal of Muhammad: A Symbol of Faith, Jihad, and the Return of the Islamic Caliphate
    • “Our Job is to Restore Law and Order”: The 175Th Military Police Battalion in Kansas City, 1968

 Army University Press

  • Military Review, November- December 2023, v. 103, no. 6 
    • Chief Priority! Ignite a Renaissance in Military Scholarship and Writing 
    • Winning before the War: A Case for Consolidation of Gains
    • The Tank Is Dead … Long Live the Tank: The Persistent Value of Armored Combined Arms Teams in the 21st Century
    • Task Organizing the Combined Arms Battalion for Success in Eastern Europe
    • Counterpunching to Win: A Mindset and Method to Defeat First Battle Fears
    • Convergence and Emission Control: Tension and Reconciliation
    • Concepts for Security Force Assistance Brigade Company Task Forces in Large-Scale Combat Operations
    • At the Point of Friction: The Role of the Modern Command Sergeant Major in Today’s Army
    • Chinese Operational Art: The Primacy of the Human Dimension
    • Selective Service: Before the All-Volunteer Force
    • Mentorship Is a Mess
    • Responses to Gender Bias and Discrimination among Women Officers
    • Sleep and Performance: Why the Army Must Change Its Sleepless Culture
    • By All Means Available: Memoirs of a Life in Intelligence, Special Operations, and Strategy
    • Medal of Honor Sgt. Maj. Thomas P. Payne

 Asan Institute for Policy Studies

 Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)

 ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

 Atlantic Council

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

 Brookings Institution

 Bruegel

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

 CATO Institute

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

 Center for Climate Security (CCS)

 Center for International Policy

 Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

 Center on Global Energy Policy

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

 Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

 College of Europe

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

 Council on Foreign Relations

 Customs and Border Protection (CBP)

 Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

 Defense Science Board (DSB)

 Department of Defense (DOD)

 Department of Defense, Inspector General (DODIG)

 Department of Homeland Security Inspector General

  • OIG-24-01 REPORTCBP Did Not Fully Implement the Requirements of the Synthetic Opioid Exposure Prevention and Training Act 
  • OIG-24-02 Management Alert - ICE Management and Oversight of Mobile Applications - (REDACTED) 

 Department of State

 Egmont: The Royal Institute for International Relations

 EU Non-Proliferation Consortium 

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

 European Policy Centre (EPC)

 European Strategic Intelligence and Security Center (ESISC)

 European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

 EUROPOL

 Fact Coalition

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)                

 Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)

 Foundation for Strategic Research (Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique)

 French Institute of International Relations (IFRI)

 Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS)

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

 German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

 Global Development Policy Center

 Global Financial Integrity

 Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

  • China: With Nearly All U.S. Confucius Institutes Closed, Some Schools Sought Alternative Language Support GAO-24-105981 
  • Credit Cards: Pandemic Assistance Likely Helped Reduce Balances, and Credit Terms Varied Among Demographic Groups GAO-23-105269 
  • Federal Law Enforcement Officers: Criminal Sexual Acts while Acting in Official Capacity GAO-24-106723 
  • Federal Real Property: Agencies Need New Benchmarks to Measure and Shed Underutilized Space GAO-24-107006  
  • Fraud Risk Management: Agencies Should Continue Efforts to Implement Leading Practices GAO-24-106565 
  • Freely Associated States: Agencies Should Enhance Procedures to Address Millions of Dollars in Questionable Spending GAO-23-106160 
  • Higher Education: Options That May Help Survivors of Sexual Violence Continue Their Education and Manage Federal Student Loans GAO-24-106282 
  • International Trade Administration: Global Markets Employee Focus Groups Raise Workforce Management Concerns GAO-24-106747 
  • Mental Health Services: State Should Collect Ongoing Feedback to Ensure Overseas Employees' Needs Are Being Met GAO-24-106082 
  • National Security Snapshot: Oversight of the DOD Nuclear Enterprise GAO-24-106735 
  • Special Operations Forces: Enhanced Training, Analysis, and Monitoring Could Improve Foreign Language Proficiency GAO-24-105849 
  • VA Disability Benefits: Actions Needed to Address Challenges Reserve Component Members Face Accessing Compensation GAO-24-105400 
  • VA Whistleblowers: Retaliation Claim Investigations and Settlement Agreements [Reissued with revisions on Oct. 27, 2023] GAO-24-107090 

 Hackerone

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

 Hedayah International Center of Excellence for Countering Violent Extremism

 Henry Jackson Society

 Heritage Foundation

 Hoover Institution

 Hudson Institute

 Human Rights Watch

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

 Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)  

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

 Institute for the Study of War

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

 International Center for Counter-Terrorism

International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

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

 International Crisis Group

 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

 International Peace Institute (IPI)

 Irregular Warfare Center

 Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) Press

 Lowry Institute

 Marine Corps University Middle East Studies

 Mercator Institute for China Studies

 Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

 MITRE

 Modern Warfare Institute (MWI)

 National Defense University Press

  • Joint Force Quarterly (JFQ),  no. 111, ( 4th Quarter, October 2023) 
    • A Symphony of Capabilities: How the Joint Warfighting Concept Guides Service Force Design and Development
    • Sharpening Our Competitive Edge: Honing Our Warfighting Capabilities Through the Joint Warfighting Concept
    • Embracing Change: A Sense of Urgency
    • Weaponizing Wheat: How Strategic Competition With Russia Could Threaten American Food Security
    • It’s Not Just About the Algorithm: Development of a Joint Medical Artificial Intelligence Capability
    • Space Denial: A Deterrence Strategy
    • An Interview with Michael E. Langley
    • Guardian of the Seams: U.S. Africa Command at the Intersection of Diplomacy, Development, and Defense
    • Defense Diplomacy: Professionalizing the Purple to Gold Pipeline
    • Convergence of Opportunities
    • Friction Points in the Sino-Russian Arctic Partnership
    • Risky Business: Using the Joint Force’s Framework for Managing Risk
    • Absent from the Front: What the Case of the Missing World War II Black Combat Soldier Can Teach Us about Diversity and Inclusion
    • Training With Industry: Integrating the Commercial Defense Industrial Base
    • Beating Drumbeat: Lessons Learned in Unified Action from the German U-Boat Offensive Against the United States, January–July 1942

 National Endowment for Democracy (NED)

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

 National Institute of Justice (NIJ)

National Security Archive

 Naval War College

  • China Maritime Report No. 32: The PCH191 Modular Long-Range Rocket Launcher: Reshaping the PLA Army's Role in a Cross-Strait Campaign 
  • International Law Studies, 2023, v. 100, issue 1 
  • Naval War College Review, Summer 2023, v. 76, no. 3 
    • Ukraine, Nuclear Weapons, and the Future of International Law
    • Disadvantages Ashore—Constraints on Achieving Integrated All-Domain Naval Power
    • On Naval Theory
    • The Future-War Literature of the Reagan Era—Winning World War III in Fiction
    • Seventeenth-Century Dutch “Stranger Painter” Willem van de Velde the Elder and His Impact on British Maritime Art—Two Kings, the Netherland Marine Painters, and the Rise of the British Navy
    • Review Essay—Past and Present in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps: "The Unfinished History of the Iran-Iraq War: Faith, Firepower, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards," "Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic"
    • Reflections on Reading

 Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI)

 Not Invisible Act Commission

 Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)

 Observer Research Foundation

 Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

 Pew Research Center

 Project 2049

 Project on Government Oversight (POGO)

 RAND Corporation

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

 Simon Fraser University

  • Journal for Deradicalization, Fall 2023, no. 36 
    • Unintended but not Unanticipated Consequences: Youth Work, Organized Crime, and Concealed Radicalization
    • Counseling towards the Deradicalization of Islamist Extremists: An Overview of Approaches Based on Two Qualitative Interview Studies with Prevention Practitioners in Germany
    • Guerre Révolutionnaire, Counter-insurgency, and U.S. Domestic Extremism

 Small Arms Survey

 Small Wars Journal

 Soufan Center

 South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

 Special Inspector General Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

 Stimson Center

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) 

 Sudd Institute

 Taylor & Francis

 Transnational Institute (TNI)

 UK Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

 UK Ministry of Defense

 UK Parliament

 UK Royal Air Force

 United to Protect Democracy

 UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

 UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

 UN University (UNU)

UN Women

 US Coast Guard (USCG)

 U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission

 US Studies Center (USSC)

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

  White House

 Wilson Center

 World Bank