Sunday, January 5, 2025

Friday's Miscellany 12-27-2024 & 1-3-2025

 38 North

 Australian Government - Defence

 Air University Press

 Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

  • Medical Surveillance Monthly Report (MSMR), December 2024, v. 31, no. 12 
    • Diagnoses of Mental Health Disorders among Active Component U.S. Armed Forces, 2019–2023
    • Syphilis Cases among Pregnant Women and Newborns in the Military Health System, 2012–2022
    • Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 and Kidney Events in U.S. Active Component Service Members, March 1, 2020-September 30, 2022
    • Reportable Medical Events at Military Health System Facilities Through Week 44, Ending November 2, 2024

 Army Cyber Institute (ACI)

  • Cyber Defense Review, Fall 2024, v. 9, no. 3 
    • The Need for a Cyber Smoke Screen: A Tactical Action that Instantly Becomes Strategic in an All-Domain Operation
    • The Path to China’s Intelligentized Warfare: Converging on the Metaverse Battlefield
    • Blind Allegations of U.S. Cyber Hegemony Complements China’s Influence Campaign to Weaken Global Confidence in the United States
    • GenAI in the 2024 Taiwan Presidential Election: Lessons for Democracies
    • Embracing Memory Safe APIs for C2 Systems
    • Forward Persistence in Great Power Cyber Competition: Military Assets in a Relative Power Erosion Framework

 Asan Institute for Policy Studies

 Asia-Pacific Leadership Network (APLN)

 ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

 Atlantic Council

 Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)

 Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA)

 Beyond the Parallel

 British American Security Information Council (BASIC)

 Brookings

 Bruegel

 Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

 Carr Center for Human Rights Policy [Harvard]

 Cato Institute

 Census Bureau

 Center for Climate & Security (CCS)

 Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS)

 Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM)

 Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

 Center for the Study of Intelligence (CSI)

  • Studies in Intelligence, December 2024, v. 68, no. 4 [Special Media Reviews] 
    • The War for Ukraine: Strategy and Adaptation Under Fire and Downfall: Prigozhin, Putin and the New Fight for the Future of Russia
    • The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis
    • The Melting Point: High Command and War in the 21st Century
    • Nuclear War: A Scenario
    • Covert City: The Cold War and the Making of Miami
    • Intelligence in Democratic Transitions: A Comparative Analysis of Portugal, Greece, and Spain
    • Keishicho koan sosakan: supai hanta no shirarezaru riaru [Public Security Investigators of the Metropolitan Police]
    • Spymaster: The Memoirs of Gordon M. Stewart, CIA Station Chief in Cold War Germany
    • CODE NAME: SPIKE : The Dawn of the Cold War, CIA & U.S. Army Special Forces
    • Cracking the Nazi Code: The Untold Story of Agent A12 and the Solving of the Holocaust Code
    • The Bulldog Detective: William J. Flynn and America’s First War Against the Mafia, Spies, and Terrorists
    • The Singularity (A Novel)
    • Intelligence Officer’s Bookshelf
    • *Media Reviewed during 2024 in Studies in Intelligence
  • Studies in Intelligence, December 2024 v. 68, no. 5 (Special Edition, IRTPA 20 Years On [Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act]) 
    • Leadership Reflections on the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004
    • Present at the Beginning: Creating the Intelligence Reform and Terrorist Prevention Act
    • Intelligence Reform: If We Didn’t Do It Then, We’d Have To Do It Now
    • From Mandate to Results: Restoring Confidence and Transforming Analysis
    • From the Defense Department to Liberty Crossing: Perspectives on Standing Up ODNI
    • Managing IC Resources Before and After IRTPA
    • Intelligence Reform: A Glass Half Full
    • Reorganizations-Fun for Some, Misery for Most
    • Integrating the IC’s Cyber Security Mission
    • IRTPA and Counterterrorism: More Than Connecting the Dots
    • Driving IT Integration
    • Legal Perspectives on Creating and Implementing the ODNI
    • Commentary: Creating a True Culture of Collaboration Through Civilian Joint Duty
    • RTPA’s Broad Impact: CI, Law Enforcement, Counternarcotics, and CIA
    • Counterintelligence: Changing Landscape, Unprecedented Threat
    • IRTPA and the FBI
    • IRTPA and Drug Enforcement
    • In Their Own Words: Michael Morell and Andrew Makridis Offer Views from CIA

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

 Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies

 Centre for Information Resilience (CIR)

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

 Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST)         

 Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

 College of Europe

 Congress. House. Judiciary Committee. Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government

 Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence

 Council on Foreign Relations

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

 Department of Defense (DOD)

 Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

 Department of Homeland Security Inspector General

  • OIG-25-07 Oversight Review of the United States Secret Service, Office of Professional Responsibility 

 Egmont: The Royal Institute for International Relations

 Elliot School of International Affairs - Central Asia Program

 European Asylum Support Office (EASO)

 European Council on Foreign Relations               

 European Policy Centre (EPC)

 European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)

 European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

 EUROPOL

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)              

 French Institute of International Relations (Institut Français des Relations Internationales) (IFRI)

 German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

 Global Public Policy Institute (GPPI)

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

  • Biomedical Research: Strategic Workforce Planning Needed to Address Recruitment and Hiring Challenges at ARPA-H GAO-25-107418 
  • Cuba Democracy Assistance: USAID Should Improve Collection of Security Risk Information to Help Awardee Mitigation Efforts GAO-25-107712 
  • Defense Contracting: DOD is Taking Steps to Restrict Mandatory Arbitration, but Additional Action Needed GAO-25-107069 

 Govini

 Henry Jackson Society

 Hoover's China Leadership Monitor

  • China Leadership Monitor, Winter 2024, no. 82 
    • From “Singing Bright Prospects” to “Traversing History’s 'Garbage Time'”: China Struggles with Slowing Growth
    • China's AI Implementation Gap
    • China's Consumption Challenge
    • China’s View of Lai Ching-te and the Pending Crisis in the Taiwan Strait
    • CLM Insights Interview with Jeffrey Ding

 Hudson Institute

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

 Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT)

 Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA) 

 Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

 Institute for National Security Studies (INSS - Israel)

  • Strategic Assessment, June 2024, v. 27, no. 2 
    • Introduction – The Demography-Security Nexus
    • The Future of Israeli and Jewish Demography
    • Demographic Processes in Israel 1948–2022
    • Israel as a Demographic Anomaly: Between Europe and the Middle East
    • At Home and Abroad: The Changing Demographic Threat to Israel
    • Demographics and Economy in Israel
    • Population Dynamics and the Demographic Dividend in Israel
    • The Reciprocity of Demography, Territory and Time in Shaping Zionist and Israeli Policy—1897-1951
    • Science and Politics in Demographic Planning: The Question of Encouraging Arab Emigration from the Territories
    • Proposals Versus Reality: Addressing West Bank Demography in Israel—1967-1977
    • The Palestinian Authority’s Settlement Effort According to the Demographic Campaign Theory, and its Expression in Firing Zone 918
    • The Palestinian Refugee Problem and the Demand for a “Right of Return”: Using Demography to Fight the Jewish State
    • Perpetual War: The Syrian Refugee Crisis and its Consequences for the Middle East
    • Population Growth in Egypt: Threats, Responses and Opportunities

 Institute for Science and International Security

 Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) 

 Institute for the Study of War

 Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad

 International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

 International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

 International Peace Institute (IPI)

 Italian Institute for International Political Studies

 Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA)

 Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) Press

 Lowy Institute for International Relations

 Marine Corps University Middle East Studies Insights

 Marine Corps University Press

  • International Perspectives on Military Education [IPME], 2024, v. 1 
    • Wargaming Preferences: How Participating in Educational Wargames Changes Student Preferences on Learning
    • Leveraging Learning in Operational Environments: Lessons Learned from a Multinational Experience aboard USS George Washington during the Southern Seas 2024 Mission
    • Using Crisis Action Planning Exercises to Assess Program Learning Outcomes in Support of Outcomes-Based Military Education
    • Soft Skills in Favor of Advanced Military Education

 MITRE

 National Academies Press 

 National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR)

 National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS)

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

 National Science and Technology Council

 National Security Archive

 Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)                

 Observer Research Foundation

 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

 Our World in Data

 Pew Research Center

 Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED)

 Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

 Rand

 Scandinavian Military Studies

  • Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies, 2025, v. 8, no. 1 
    • Constructing “Society’s Soldiers”: Identity Work, (Total) Defence Willingness and the Swedish Home Guard

 Special Inspector General Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

  • SIGAR 25-07-FA Department of State’s Scholarship Program in Afghanistan: Audit of Costs Incurred by the American University of Beirut 
  • SIGAR 25-10-FA USAID’s Program in Afghanistan: Audit of Costs Incurred 
  • SIGAR 25-11-FA USAID’s Urban Health Initiative: Audit of Costs Incurred by Jhpiego Corporation 

 Stimson Center

 Swedish Institute of International Affairs

 Taylor & Francis

  • Defense & Security Analysis, 2024

 Toda Peace Institute

 UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

 UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA)