Wednesday, June 5, 2024

Friday's Miscellany 05-31-2024

 38 North

 Amnesty International

 Army War College 

  • Parameters, Summer 2024, v. 54, no. 2 
    • What American Policymakers Misunderstand about the Belt and Road Initiative
    • The Combat Path: Sustaining Mental Readiness in Ukrainian Soldiers
    • Understanding Russian Disinformation and How the Joint Force Can Address It
    • The Dynamics of US Retrenchment in the Middle East
    • Iraq’s Ministry of Interior: NATO, Capability Building, and Reform
    • Raven Sentry: Employing AI for Indications and Warnings in Afghanistan
    • Closing the Gap: Officer Advanced Education STEM+M (Management)
    • Operating Successfully within the Bureaucracy Domain of Warfare: Part One
    • Professional Discourse Is Shaping the Force
    • Introduction to the US Army War College Civil-Military Relations Center
    • Exploring the Nexus of Military and Society at a 50-Year Milestone

 Asan Institute for Policy Studies

 Asia-Pacific Leadership Network (APLN)

 Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)

 Atlantic Council

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

 Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)

 Blair Institute for Global Change

 Booz Allen Hamilton

 Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

 Center for Climate Security (CCS)

 Center for Global Security Research

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

 Centre for Eastern Studies

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

 College of Europe

 Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

  • CTC Sentinel,  May 2024, v. 17, no. 5 
    • From Tajikistan to Moscow and Iran: Mapping the Local and Transnational Threat of Islamic State Khorasan
    • A View from the CT Foxhole: Ahmad Zia Saraj, Former General Director of the National Directorate of Security of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
    • Rising Threats to Public Officials: A Review of 10 Years of Federal Data

 Congress. Senate. Armed Services Committee

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

 Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)

 Defense Management Institute (DMI)

 Defense Personnel and Security Center (PERSEREC)

 Department of Defense, Inspector General (DODIG)

 Department of State Inspector General

 Energy Information Administration (EIA)

 EU Non-Proliferation Consortium

 European Asylum Support Office (EASO)            

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

 European Leadership Network (ELN)

 European Network for Economic and Fiscal Policy Research (EconPol)

 European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)

 European Union CT MORSE

 European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

 Foundation for Strategic Research (Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique)  

 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)

  • Commercial Space Transportation: How FAA Considers Environmental and Airspace Effects  GAO-24-106193
  • Drug Control: DEA Should Improve Its Religious Exemptions Petition Process for Psilocybin (Mushrooms) and Other Controlled Substances  GAO-24-106630
  • National Nuclear Security Administration: Actions to Recruit and Retain Federal Staff Could Be Improved  GAO-24-106167
  • National Nuclear Security Administration: Improvements Needed for Overseeing Contractor Workforce Recruitment and Retention Efforts  GAO-24-106861
  • Navy Frigate: Unstable Design Has Stalled Construction and Compromised Delivery Schedules  GAO-24-106546
  • Science & Tech Spotlight: Hydrogen Uses  GAO-24-107489
  • Ukraine: Status and Use of Supplemental U.S. Funding, as of First Quarter, Fiscal Year 2024  GAO-24-107232
  • U.S. Postal Service: Inspection Service Should Document Its Law Enforcement Workforce Decision-Making Processes  GAO-24-106497
  • VA Health Care: Additional Assessments of Mileage Reimbursement Data and Veterans' Travel Costs Needed  GAO-24-106816

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

 Heritage Foundation

 Hoover's China Leadership Monitor

  • China Leadership Monitor,  Summer 2024, no. 80
    • “Lying Flat-ism”: Is the Party Under Xi “Governing People to Death”?
    • China’s Global Security Initiative at Two: A Journey, Not a Destination
    • The Historic Missions of the People’s Liberation Army under Xi Jinping: The Military’s Role in the “New Era”
    • China’s Aging Problem Will Be Much More Serious When Urbanization is Completed
    • CLM Insights Interview with Steve Tsang
    • CLM Insights Interview with Ya-Wen Lei

 Hudson Institute

 Human Rights Watch

 IJ Infinity Group

  • Military Strategy Magazine,  Spring 2024, v. 9, no. 3
    • Michael Handel, October 7, and The Theory of Surprise
    • Clausewitz, Theory, and Ending the Ukraine War
    • What would Julian Corbett Say About the Post 2014 Global Crisis?
    • Soviet Theory Forgotten: Russian Military Strategy in the War in Ukraine
    • Vauban, The War on Terror, and the Aesthetic Strategic Imperative
    • Hans Delbrück and the 2001-2021 War in Afghanistan

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

 Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

 Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP)

 Institute for Security Studies [Africa]

 Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD)  

 Institute for the Study of War

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

 International Crisis Group

 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

 International Organization for Migration (IOM)

 Irregular Warfare Center

 Italian Institute for International Political Studies

 Jamestown Foundation

  • China Brief,  May 24, 2024, v. 24, no. 11
    • Shifting Discourse Between Xi and Putin On Ukraine
    • New Textbook Reveals Xi Jinping’s Doctrine of Han-Centric Nation-Building
    • Open-Source Technology and PRC National Strategy: Part II
    • Peng Liyuan Rises Up the Ranks: Implications for Xi’s Despotic Rule
    • Multipolar Mirage: The PRC’s Pivot to Europe
  • Terrorism Monitor,  May 38, 2024, v. 22, no. 8
    • Brief: U.S.–Malaysia Disagreements Over Hamas Unlikely to Drive Change in Relationship
    • Brief: Three Years after Death of Shekau, Boko Haram Appears to Gain on ISWAP under Leadership of Bakura
    • TTP's Killing of Chinese Citizens in Pakistan Presents Afghan Taliban with Dangerous Dilemma
    • Iran- Based Balock Separatist Group Jaish al-Adl Appears to Adopt Complex Attack Strategies from Balock Liberation Army in Pakistan
    • Half a Year on, Myanmar's Junta Appears to have Survived Threat Posed by 'Operation 1027'

 Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

 Lowy Institute for International Relations

 Manhattan Institute

 Martens Centre for European Studies

 Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI)

 MITRE

 National Academies Press 

 National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR)

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

 National Security Archive

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

 NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence

 NATO Defense College

 NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence

 Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (NUPI)

 Observer Research Foundation 

 Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)

 OpenAI

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

 Our World in Data

 Pew Research Center

 Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

 R Street

 RAND Corporation

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

 Small Wars Journal

 Sol Foundation

 South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

 Special Inspector General Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

  • SIGAR 24-24-FA Department of State’s Demining Clearance and Surveying Projects throughout Afghanistan: Audit of Costs Incurred by Mine Clearance Planning Agency 
  • SIGAR 24-23-FA Department of State’s Children’s Support Center Project in Afghanistan: Audit of Costs Incurred by Women for Afghan Women Inc. 

 Stanford Internet Observatory

  • Journal of Online Trust and Safety,  2024, v. 2, no. 3
    • Online Harassment in Authoritarian and Semi-democratic States
    • Wangbao (Cyberbullying) and Jubao (Reporting): Collaborative State-Society Online Influence Operations in China
    • Proactive Blocking through the Automated Identification of Likely Harassers

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

 Swedish Institute of International Affairs

 Taylor & Francis

Toda Peace Institute

 UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI)

 United States Studies Centre (USSC)

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy