Thursday, April 11, 2024

Friday's Miscellany 04-05-2024

 38 North

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

 AidData

 Air University

  • Æther: A Journal of Strategic Airpower and Spacepower Spring 2024, v. 3, no. 1 
    • Hardwired for Hardware: Congressional Adjustments to the Administration’s Defense Budget Requests, 2016 to 2023
    • Space and War in Ukraine: Beyond the Satellites
    • Asymmetric Warfare in Space: Five Proposals from Chinese Strategic Thought
    • US Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve: Integrating Commercial Capabilities for a Resilient and Flexible Space Architecture
    • Offensive Dominance in Space
    • Decoding the Adversary: Strategic Empathy in an Era of Great Power Competition
    • Moral Injury: Wounds of an Ethical Warrior
    • Lethal Targeting through US Airpower: A Consequentialism Perspective

 American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

 Arctic Institute

 Asan Institute for Policy Studies

 Asia-Pacific Leadership Network (APLN)

 Asia Society Policy Institute

 Atlantic Council

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

 Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs 

 Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)

 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (AFT)

 Canada. Royal Canadian Air Force

  • Royal Canadian Air Force Journal, 2023, v. 12, no. 2 
    • Why So Calm? The Role of American Signals Intelligence in The Cold War’s Nuclear Stand-Off, 1949–1969
    • Essential Capabilities: Why Canada Needs to Acquire Attack Helicopters Concept to Deployment: The Logistics Behind Delivering the RCAF’s Air Force Expeditionary Capability (AFEC) Programme
    • RCAF History & Heritage Column
    • “Spacemindedness:” A New Way of Thinking

 Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

 Cato Institute

 Census Bureau

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

  • Analyses in Security Policy
    • No. 337: Strategic De-risking Beyond Chips 
    • No. 338: Knowledge Security at Stake 
    • No. 339: Heightened Nuclear Risks and the Risk Reduction Agenda 
    • No. 340: European Security Cooperation with the Indo-Pacific 

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

 Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress (CSPC)

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

 Chatham House

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

 College of Europe

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

 Council on Geostrategy

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

 Department of Defense, Inspector General (DODIG)

  • DODIG-2024-071 Review of the Navy and Marine Corps Policies Covering Sexual Harassment Complaint Processes 

 Energy Information Administration (EIA)

 European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)

 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) (IFRI)

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

 German Marshall Fund of the United States

 Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

 Global Public Policy Institute (GPPI)

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

  • 2023 Lobbying Disclosure: Observations on Compliance with Requirements GAO-24-106799 
  • Army Modernization: Production Challenges for Stryker Upgrade Reinforce Need to Follow Acquisition Leading Practices in Future Efforts [Reissued with revisions on Apr. 3, 2024] GAO-24-106590  
  • Gas Pipeline Safety: Better Data and Planning Would Improve Implementation of Regulatory Changes GAO-24-106690 
  • Nuclear Power Plants: NRC Should Take Actions to Fully Consider the Potential Effects of Climate Change GAO-24-106326 

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

 Hedayah International Center of Excellence for Countering Violent Extremism

 Heritage Foundation

 Human Rights Watch

 Humane Intelligence/Seed AI/ Defcon AI Village

 IEMed – European Institute of the Mediterranean

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

 Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

 Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

 Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP)

 Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD)

 Institute for the Study of Warfare

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

 International Crisis Group

 Jamestown Foundation

  • Terrorism Monitor, April 5, 2024, v. 22, no. 5 
    • Brief: ISWAP Suicide Truck Bombers Target Nigerian Supercamps in Northeast
    • Brief: Surrender of Another Abu Sayyaf Militant Signals Philippines’ Continued Counter-Terrorism Success
    • India’s Manipur State Addresses Violence Stemming from Myanmar Ahead of State Elections
    • Focus on High-Value Military Targets Emphasizes the TJP’s Link to the TTP
    • Kyrgyzstan’s Repatriation of Foreign Fighters’ Wives and Children from Syrian Camps Marks the End of an Era

 Lowy Institute for International Relations

 Microsoft Threat Intelligence

 Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

 MITRE

 National Academies Press 

 National Bureau of Asian Research

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

 National Security Archive

 NATO Defense College

 Naval War College

  • Naval War College Review, Autumn 2023, v. 76, no. 4 
    • OPLAN 1003V—Operation IRAQI FREEDOM from a Planner’s Perspective
    • Island-Hopping with Chinese Characteristics—What the PRC Is Doing in the Pacific Islands, Why It Matters, and Why the Time Has Come to “Block and Build” 
    • Reluctant Retrenchment—America’s Response to the Rise of China
    • Laying the Groundwork for Sims—Albert P. Niblack as the First USN Inspector of Target Practice, and the Gunnery Revolution of the U.S. Navy
    • Reflections on Reading

 Niskanen Center

 NSI's Strategic Multilayer Assessment (SMA) Program 

 Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)                

 Observer Research Foundation

 Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)

 RAND Corporation

 Simon Fraser University

  • Journal for Deradicalization, Spring 2024, no. 38 
    • The Resurgence of Militant Groups in Pakistan's Borderlands: Analyzing Shortcomings in Rehabilitation and Reintegration Strategies
    • Could the Futility of Terrorism Inspire Deradicalization? Narrative Strategies Arising from Case Studies of Far-Right Lone-Actor Terrorism
    • Radicalization Pathways among Women in U.S. Far-Right Extremist Networks and Implications for Deradicalization
    • Influences of Discrimination and Stigmatization on Secondary and Tertiary Level P/CVE Efforts – Insights from German Practitioners into Countering Islamist Extremism
    • After They Leave: Exploring Post-exit Distress in Former Violent Extremists
    • Research Note: The Role of Ideas In Radicalization to Terrorism: Ideology and Narrative vs. Diagnostic, Prognostic, and Motivational Action Frames

 Small Wars Journal

 Special Inspector General Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

  • SIGAR 24-17-FA Department of State’s Afghan Students Scholarship Program: Audit of Costs Incurred by the American University of Central Asia 

 Springer

 Sudd Institute

 Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (SJAC)

 Taylor & Francis

 Toda Peace Institute

 UK Commission on Countering Extremism

 UK Ministry of Defence (MOD)

 UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

 US Institute of Peace (USIP)

 Wilson Center