Friday's Miscellany 05-03-2024

 38 North

• Imagining a Future for the DPRK Panel of Experts Monitoring Regime 
• North Korea Emphasizes Theater Strike Missiles in the First Third of 2024 
• Quick Take: North Korea’s “National Defence Industrial Enterprise” 
• Reconstruction at North Korea’s Quarantine Import Facility 

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

• African Union and United Nations Partnership Key to the Future of Peace Operations in Africa 

 Air University Press

• Performing Panda: Chinese Economic Coercion in the Era of Xi Jinping 

 American Enterprise Institute

• Keeping Up with the Pacing Threat:  Unveiling the True Size of Beijing’s Military Spending 

 Amnesty International

• Use of Entity Resolution in India: Shining a Light on How New Forms of Automation Can Deny People Access to Welfare 
• A Web of Surveillance: Unravelling a Murky Network of Spyware Exports to Indonesia 

 American Security Project (ASP)

• U.S.-India Relationship:  Navigating Strategic Multi-Alignment 

 Andrew Marshall Foundation 

• U.S. Collapse:  A Chain-Writing Experiment 

 Army University Press

• Military Review, May- June 2024, v. 104, no. 3 
• The Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of NATO and the Rules of Relevance
• Lessons from D-Day: The Importance of Combined and Joint Operations
• “An Incredible Degree of Rugged and Realistic Training”: The 4th Infantry Division’s Preparation for D-Day
• “Will to Fight”: Twenty-First-Century Insights from the Russo-Ukrainian War
• Information Advantage: A Combined Arms Approach
• Goldilocks Kill Chains and the Just Right Data
• International Force East Timor: A Case Study in Multinational Mission Command
• 3D Printing Solutions for Contested Medical Logistics
• The Coming Military AI Revolution
• Advancing the U.S. Army’s Counter-UAS Mission Command Systems to Keep Pace with Modern Warfare
• Artificial Intelligence and Agile Combat Employment
• Automating the Survival Chain and Revolutionizing Combat Casualty Care: Human-Technology Teaming on the Future Battlefield
• Army Medicine and Artificial Intelligence: Transforming the Future Battlefield
• Using Open Access AI to Create Military Training from POW Experiences
• Strength in Knowledge: The Warrant Officer Journal, January-March 2024 v. 2 no. 1 
• The Warrant Officer Museum
• Missing the “Walk” Phase in Aviation Training Leads to Accidents
• Irregular Warfare: A Case for Parity in Priority
• Digital Literacy and the Importance to the Warrant Officer
• Retiring the Signal Corps Flags
• Should Receive Intelligence Equipment and Upgrades in Parity to the Active Component
• National Guard and Reserve Pre-Test for Warrant Officer Basic and Advance Course
• Equipment Modernization and Training in the National Guard
• Beyond the Weekend: Unraveling the Reality of National Guard Member
• Force Structure Modernization to Support the Defense of Guam and the Marianas
• Inventory Management

 Army War College Press

• Decisive Decade:  PRC Global Strategy and the PLA as a Pacing Challenge – 2023 PLA Conference 

 Australian Army Research Center

• Accelerated Preparedness: Scalability Insights for Defence 

 Australian Government

• Enhanced Lethality Surface Combatant Fleet: Independent Analysis of Navy’s Surface Combatant Fleet 

 Australian Institute of Criminology

• Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, 2024,
• no. 693 - Grievances and Conspiracy Theories as Motivators of Anti-Authority Protests 
• no. 685 Motives and Pathways for Joining Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs 

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

• Truth and Reality with Chinese Characteristics: The Building Blocks of the Propaganda System Enabling CCP Information Campaigns 

 Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES)

• Geopolitical Instability and Escalating Conflicts: The Impact on East Asian Defence Innovation Systems 

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

• Climate-Induced Displacement in the Middle East and North Africa 
• A Framework for Protecting Human Rights in the Context of Internal Climate-Induced Displacement 
• Moving Beyond the Refugee Convention Impasse on Climate Displacement: Skills Mobility Partnerships 
• Sea-Level Rise in the Nile Delta: Promoting Adaptation Through Circular Migration 
• Unable or Unwilling To Move? How Climate Change Impacts the Decision To Migrate among Turkish Farmers 
• The Weaponization of Natural Resources and Disasters During Conflict: The Refugee Convention’s Relevance for Syria and Yemen 

 Brookings Institution

• How ‘Computer Science for All’ Initiatives Affect Students’ College and Career Outcomes 

 Canada. Department of National Defence

• Canadian Military Journal, Fall 2023,  v. 23, no. 4
• An Indigenous Warrior Code of Honour
• Forward Surgical Teams: Critical Assets for Future Land Operations
• An AOPS That Can Fight? Patrol Ships for an Increasingly Dangerous World
• So Warm a Reception: Hybrid Warfare and the Naval Encounter at Tatamagouche
• Distance Learning within the Canadian Armed Forces: Potential Effects on Quality of Life
• Some Personal Reflections on Teaching through the COVID-19 Pandemic at the Canadian Forces College
• Finding Character Strengths in How Military Leaders Talk about Resilience 
• Is it Time for the CAF to Focus on Mindfulness?
• Governed Engagement: Why the Department of National Defence Would Benefit From Increased Governance of its Defence Capacity and Institution Building Efforts

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Advancing a More Global Agenda for Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence 
• European and U.S. Democracy Support:  The Limits of Convergence 

 Cato Institute

• Border Walls and Refugees 

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

• Beyond China's Black Box:  Trends Shaping China’s Foreign and Security Policy Decision-Making Under Xi Jinping 
• Biotech Matters: Problems with Life Science Databases in the United States 
• The Role of AI in Russia’s Confrontation with the West 

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• Beyond Economics: How U.S. Policies Can Undermine National Security Goals 
• Breaking Bad:  South Korea's Nuclear Option 
• EU Methane Rules: Impact for Global LNG Exporters 
• Operationalizing Japan’s Security Role in Asia 
• Partnership Opportunities to Transform Food Systems 

 Chatham House

• Reviving Tanzania’s Regional Leadership and Global Engagement: Priorities for an Effective Foreign Policy Reset 

 Center on Law, Ethics and National Security

• Uploading Culture: Navigating the International Humanitarian Legal Framework Governing Cultural Property in the Metaverse 

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

• Can the EU Old Back the Great Tech Decoupling? 
• The European Parliament Elections: A Sharp Right Turn? 
• Living Next Door to an Elephant: Lessons for the UK from EFTA 

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

• Competing Ideas: Canada’s Competition Reform Conversation 

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

• Status of the 41st Aviation Brigade Transition to the J-20 

 Clingendael Institute - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

• How the Aid Fund for Northern Syria Can Upgrade Humanitarian Aid and EU Geopolitical Engagement 
• Political Urest and Migration in Senegal 
• Tehran’s Perpetual Motion: The Threat of War abroad and Contested Legitimacy at Home 

 Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

• CTC Sentinel, April 2024, v. 17, no. 4 
• Assessing the Houthi War Effort Since October 2023
• A View from the CT Foxhole: Colonel (Ret.) Miri Eisin, Director, International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT)
• The State of al-Qa`ida Central
• The Somali National Army Versus al-Shabaab: A Net Assessment

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• How CBO Uses the ReEDS Model to Analyze Policies in the Electric Power Sector 
• Income of Black Working-Age Veterans 
• Testimony on the Cost of the Coast Guard’s Polar Security Cutter 

 Council on Geostrategy

• Why Space Matters to the United Kingdom 

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

• Embracing Green Tech Innovation is Part of a Saudi Dual Energy Strategy 
• Loss, Damage and Social Cohesion: Impacts and Next Steps for Policy And Programming 
• Reimagining Peacekeeping in Africa and Beyond 

 Department of Defense (DOD)

• Class Deviation—Safeguarding Covered Defense Information and Cyber Incident Reporting 
• FY 2023 Freedom of Navigation Report 
• Prior Years 

 Department of Defense, Inspector General (DODIG)

• Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) 

 Department of Energy (DOE)

• AI for Energy: Opportunities for a Modern Grid and Clean Energy Economy 

 Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

• Fact Sheet:  DHS Facilitates the Safe and Responsible Deployment and Use of Artificial Intelligence in Federal Government, Critical Infrastructure, and U.S. Economy 

 Department of State Inspector General

• Lead Inspector General for Operation Inherent Resolve | Quarterly Report to the United States Congress | January 1, 2024 - March 31, 2024 

 East-West Center

• Commodities and Global Climate Governance: Early Evidence From the EU Deforestation-free Regulation (EUDR) 
• Korea-US Cooperation on Climate Change in the Pacific as Part of the Indo-Pacific Strategy 

 Egmont: The Royal Institute for International Relations

• Promoting European Democracy and Solidarity in a Wider EU 

 European Council on Foreign Relations                   

• Global Saudi: How Europeans can Work with an Evolving Kingdom 

 European Union (EU)

• Illicit Trade in Fakes under the COVID‑19 
• The Pandemic, Socioeconomic Disadvantage, and Learning Outcomes 

 European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)

• Foresight Cybersecurity Threats for 2030 - Update 2024: Extended Report 

 European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

• Going Green without China?: The EU's Clean Tech Tightrope 
• Türkiye's Cards in the World: Reaching across Borders 

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

• Croatia's Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 
• Cyprus' Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 
• Georgia's Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 
• Lithuania's Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 
• Slovenia's Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)                

• Government vs. the People in Georgia 
• Is the United States Losing the Sahel? 
• Mending Historical Memory: Improving People-to-People Ties Between Japan and South Korea 
• Taiwan’s Mainstage Moment 
• US Policy in Northeast Syria: Toward a Strategic Reconfiguration 

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

• More Than Borders:  Effects of EU Interventions on Migration in the Sahel 

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

• Trump II and U.S. Nuclear Assurances to NATO:  Policy Options Instead of Alarmism 

 German Marshall Fund of the United States

• Exposing the PRC’s Distortion of UN General Assembly Resolution 2758 to Press its Claim Over Taiwan 
• A Smart Specialization Strategy for Ukraine: Recommendations to Spark an Economic Rebound after the War 
• Why UN General Assembly Resolution 2758 Does Not Establish Beijing’s “One China” Principle:  A Legal Perspective 

 Global ECCO

• Combating Terrorism Exchange (CTX), Spring 2024, v. 14, no. 1 
• A Mutually Reinforcing Relationship
• Developing Mongolia’s Resiliency Through Sports, Games, and Play
• CTX Interview: MAJ Mareks Runts, Latvian Special Forces
• Social Capital | Women, Peace, and Security in the International Community
• Ethics and Insights | Stoicism: The Best Philosophy

 Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

• Port of Call: Regional Illicit Flows through Douala, Cameroon 

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

• Cash for Incitement: The Monetisation of Digital Hate in Germany 
• Hiding in Plain Sight: How the ‘Newgen’ Misogynistic Incel Content Creators Escape Moderation on TikTok 

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• China: Managing the Economic Relationship Requires Balancing Benefits and Risks GAO-24-107189 
• Foreign Assistance: USAID Should Strengthen Risk Management in Conflict Zones GAO-24-106192 
• Military Justice: Actions Needed to Help Ensure Success of Judge Advocate Career Reforms GAO-24-106165 
• Military Readiness: Actions Needed for DOD to Address Challenges across the Air, Sea, Ground, and Space Domains GAO-24-107463 
• NASA Cybersecurity: Plan Needed to Update Spacecraft Acquisition Policies and Standards GAO-24-106624 
• Navy Readiness: Actions Needed to Improve the Reliability and Management of Ship Crewing Data GAO-24-105811 
• Navy Shipbuilding: Increased Use of Leading Design Practices Could Improve Timeliness of Deliveries GAO-24-105503 
• Public Health Preparedness: HHS Should Address Strategic National Stockpile Coordination Challenges GAO-24-106260 
• Ukraine: Lessons from Other Conflicts Can Improve the Results of U.S. Recovery Assistance GAO-24-107180 
• Ukraine: Status and Challenges of DOD Weapon Replacement Efforts GAO-24-106649 
• U.S. Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Fund: Options for Increasing Deposits and Their Potential Impacts GAO-24-106863 

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

• The EU’s China Challenge: Rethinking Offshore Wind and Electrolysis Strategy 

 Hudson Institute

• A Crimea First Strategy for Ukraine 
• The Nuclear Iran “Concept” Is Already Here:  Time Is Short to Prevent Israel’s—and America’s—Next Calamitous Intelligence Failure 
• The U.S. Needs to Issue an Atrocity Determination for North Korea 

 Human Rights Watch

• “We Couldn’t Wait”: Digital Metering at the US-Mexico Border 

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

• Assessing Canadian Innovation, Productivity, and Competitiveness 
• The Relationship between Biopharma R&D Investment and Expected Returns: Improving Evidence to Inform Policy 
• Why the US Economy Needs More Consolidation, Not Less 

 Institute for Science and International Security

• Assessment of the April 2024 Strike on Alabuga Special Economic Zone 

 Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP)

• Positive Paranoia: Chinese Interpretations of Indo-Pacific Geopolitics 
• Why Taiwan Matters to Europe 

 Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD)  

• Identifying Sock-Puppets on Wikipedia: A Semantic Clustering Approach 

 Institute for the Study of War

• Africa File, May 2, 2024: Iran Pursues Economic and Military Influence 
• China-Taiwan Weekly Update
• May 3, 2024 
• Iran Update
• April 29 
• April 30 
• May 1 
• May 2 
• May 3 
• May 4 
• May 5 
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment
• April 29 
• April 30 
• May 1 
• May 2 
• May 3 
• May 4 
• May 5 

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

• The Italian German Action Plan and Its Consequences over Industry and Defence 
• A More Joined-up Union, a Stronger Europe 
• The New European Defence Industrial Strategy: A Political Matter 

 International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

• An Edifying Tale of Keeping the Lights On: Societal Resilience in an Energy Crisis – the Case of Estonia 

 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

• From Client to Competitor:  The Rise of Turkiye’s Defense Industry 
• Missile Proliferation and Control in the Asia-Pacific Region 

 Jamestown Foundation

• How Russia Loses:  Hubris and Miscalculation in Putin’s Kremlin 
• Terrorism Monitor, May 6, 2024, v. 22, no. 7 
• Brief: Islamic State Spokesman Emphasizes African Focus
• Brief: Questions Around Terrorism in Tajikistan and Central Asia Abound After Crocus City Hall Massacre
• Anti-Junta Rebels Resort to 3D-Printed Weapons in Myanmar
• Hezbollah Took Advantage of Crisis in Lebanon to Build Gold Reserve, Popularity in Preparation for War with Israel
• Baloch Separatists Continue to Launch More Sophisticated, Coordinated Attacks Against Pakistan

 Lowy Institute for International Relations

• First Nations Foreign Policy: Strengthening Australia-PNG Ties 

 Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

• Competing for Talent: What Role Can Employment- and Skills-Based Mobility Projects Play? 

 MITRE

• Digital Silk Road Peace: Subsea Cable Connections to the ICT 
• Enhancing Acquisition Outcomes through Leveraging of Artificial Intelligence 
• Technical Deep Dive: Understanding the Anatomy of a Cyber Intrusion 

 National Academies Press 

• Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Wildland Fires: Toward Improved Monitoring, Modeling, and Management: Proceedings of a Workshop  

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

• Homeland Missile Defense: Charting A Different Course 

 National Security Archive

• Fidel Castro’s Victory Tour: New Evidence from Russian Archives 

 Naval War College

• China Maritime Report No. 38: PLAN Anti-Submarine Warfare Aircraft - Sensors, Weapons, and Operational Concepts 
• International Law Studies, 2024, v. 103, issue 1 
• UNCLOS and the Law of Occupation: On the Rights and Duties of Occupying States in Maritime Areas 

 Observer Research Foundation 

• India’s Defence Industry: Achievements and Challenges 
• A Roadmap for AI Governance: Lessons from G20 National Strategies 

 Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)

• Annual Statistical Transparency Report Regarding National Security Authorities Calendar Year 2023 
• Dynamics Shaping Global Health Security In the Next Decade 
• The IC OSINT Strategy 2024-2026 

 Oxford University Press

• Journal of Conflict & Security Law, 2024
• Can Autonomous Weapon Systems be Seized? Interactions with the Law of Prize and War Booty [open access article] 
• Disarming the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: The Case for Centring the United Nations General Assembly  [open access article] 
• Incidentality of the Civilian Harm in International Humanitarian Law and Its Contra Legem Antonyms in Recent Discourses on the Laws of War  [open access article] 
• Social Network Analysis and Counterterrorism: A Double-Edged Sword for International Humanitarian Law [open access article] 

 Peace Research Institute of Frankfurt (PRIF/HSFK)

• African Special Envoys In Practice: A Research Agenda For Studying Complex Diplomatic Interventions  

 Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

• The Effect of Lawful Crossing on Unlawful Crossing at the US Southwest Border 
• The United States Wants to Work with Friendly and Like-Minded Countries—So Who Are They? 

 Pew Research Center 

• Americans Remain Critical of China 
• Americans’ Views of Technology Companies 
• A Growing Share of Americans Have Little or No Confidence in Netanyahu 

 RAND Corporation

• Alignment of U.S. Space Force Military Human Capital Management Functions:  A Qualitative Review 
• Implementation of the New Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act Framework:  End of Fiscal Year 2022 Update 
• Information Warfighter Exercise Wargame:  2nd ed — Rulebook 
• A Logic Model for Intermediate Force Capabilities 
• "This Is a Solvable Problem":  Proceedings from a Roundtable on Providing Support to Veterans in the Transition from Military Service to Civilian Life 
• U.S. Alliance and Partner Networks:  A Network Analysis of Their Health and Strength 

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

• Challenges for Counter-Proliferation Finance and Sanctions Control in Banking 
• Indo-Pacific in Indian Foreign Policy 
• State Threats Workshop:  Perspectives from Germany and the UK 

 Small Arms Survey

• Selective Approval: Taliban Weapons Controls in Afghanistan’s Balkh Province 

 Small Wars Journal

• Blackjack 
• Taiwan:  Insurgents Needed 

 Special Inspector General Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

• April 30, 2024, Quarterly Report to Congress 

 Taylor & Francis

• Civil War, 2024
• Civilian Protection in Theory and Practice [open access article] 
• Conflict, Security & Development, 2024
• Sectarianism, Indiscriminate Violence and Displacement in the Syrian Regime’s Civil War Strategy [open access article] 
• Defence Studies, 2024
• Defiant Heroism or Wilful Disobedience? John ‘Jack’ Hinton and the Ethics of Disobedience in War [open access article] 
• Policing and Society, 2024
• Better Safe Than Sorry? Police Officers’ Identification of and Responses to Vulnerable Crime Victims  [open access article] 
• Does Prior Misconduct Predict Drug Use by Police? [open access article] 
• Terrorism and Political Violence, 2024
• Automating Terror: The Role and Impact of Telegram Bots in the Islamic State’s Online Ecosystem [open access article] 
• Managing Violent Extremist Clients in Prison and Probation Services: A Scoping Review [open access article] 
• Terrorism, Guerrilla, and the Labeling of Militant Groups [open access article] 
• Terrorized by Immigration? Threat Perceptions and Policy Preferences [open access article] 

 UK Cabinet

• Defending Britain 

 United States Studies Centre (USSC)

• Operationalising Japan’s Security Role in Asia: A Survey of Experts in Japan, the United States and Australia 

 White House

• 2024 Report on the Cybersecurity Posture of the United States 
• National Security Memorandum/NSM-22 - National Security Memorandum on Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience 
• Fact Sheets: 
• New National Security Memorandum on Critical Infrastructure 
• Partnering for Peace through the U.S. Strategy to Prevent Conflict and Promote Stability 

 Wilson Center

• Difficult Times Demand Bold Action from the EU. Speed and Creativity are of the Essence 
• Human Rights under Siege 

 World Bank

• The Evolving Geography of Productivity and Employment: Ideas for Inclusive Growth through a Territorial Lens in Latin America and the Caribbean 
• Land Policies for Resilient and Equitable Growth in Africa 
• Women, Business and the Law 2024