Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Friday Miscellany 06-20-2025 & 06-27-2025

 38 North

 American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

Army University Press

 Army War College Press

  • Cognitive Defense: 2024 Homeland Defense Symposium 
  • Parameters, Summer 2025 no. 55, no. 2 
    • The Next National Defense Strategy: Mission-Based Force Planning
    • China’s Role in a Future Korean War
    • Strategic Narratives to Counter Global Threats
    • A More Perfect Peace: Can the Russia-Ukraine War End Justly?
    • What the Russia-Ukraine Conflict Tells Us about Educational Resilience
    • The Enduring Lessons of Vietnam: Implications for US Strategy and Policy
    • Restoring the Primacy of Army Mobilization Planning: Lessons from the Interwar Period (1919–41)

 Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)

 ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

 Atlantic Council

 Australian National University Press

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

 Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES)

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

 Brennan Center for Justice

 Brookings

 Bruegel

 Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

 Cato Institute

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

 Center for Advanced Defense (C4ADS) 

 Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

 Center for Global Security Research

 Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC)

 Center for the Study of Intelligence

  • Studies in Intelligence, 69, no. 2, June 2025 
    • Beautiful in Another Context: A Counterintelligence Assessment of GTPROLOGUE
    • Deconstructing and Reconstructing Strategic Counterintelligence: Toward a New Model

 Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

 Centre for Applied Turkey Studies (CATS)

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

 Centre for Information Resilience (CIR)

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

 Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST)         

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

 Clingendael Institute - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

 Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

  • CTC Sentinel, June 2025, v. 18, no. 6 
    • Feature Commentary: An Assessment of Operation Rough Rider
    • A View from the CT Foxhole: Richard Feakes, Former Australian Ambassador for Counter-Terrorism
    • Regional Terrorism Trends Before and After October 7
    • Generation Jihad: The Profile and Modus Operandi of Minors Involved in Recent Islamist Terror Plots in Europe

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

 Council on Foreign Relations

 Council on Geostrategy

 CRIS Consortium

 Cyber Threat Alliance

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

 Defense Priorities

 Department of Defense (DOD)

 Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

  • DODIG-2025-113 Evaluation of the Movement of Ukraine- and Israel-Bound Equipment Through Aerial Ports of Embarkation in the Continental United States 
  • DODIG-2025-114 Evaluation of DoD Efforts to Assign Medical Personnel to Locations Where They Can Maintain Wartime Readiness Skills and Core Competencies 
  • DODIG-2025-115 Audit of the DoD’s Prioritization of Military Construction Projects for the European Deterrence Initiative 
  • DODIG-2025-116 Evaluation of U.S. Navy Efforts to Recapitalize Surge Sealift Vessels 
  • DODIG-2025-118 Evaluation of U.S. Army Security Force Assistance Brigade Support to Combatant Commands 

 Department of Homeland Security Inspector General

  • OIG-25-27 CBP's Detection Capabilities at U.S. Ports of Entry Risk Missing Contraband - (REDACTED) 

 Egmont: The Royal Institute for International Relations

 Energy Information Administration (EIA)

 European Council on Foreign Relations

 European Policy Centre (EPC)

 European Think-Tank Network on China (ETNC)

 European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)

 European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

 EUROPOL

 Federal Reserve Bank of New York

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

 Foreign Military Studies Office (FMSO)

 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 (Institut Français des Relations Internationales)

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

 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)

  • Army Modernization: Air and Missile Defense Efforts Would Benefit from Applying Leading Practices GAO-25-107491 
  • Coast Guard: Actions Needed to Address Cutter Maintenance and Workforce Challenges GAO-25-107222 
  • Cybersecurity: NASA Needs to Fully Implement Risk Management GAO-25-108138 
  • Export Controls: Commerce Should Improve Workforce Planning and Information Sharing GAO-25-107431 
  • Federal Remote Work: OPM Guidance Could Help Relevant Agencies Evaluate Effects on Agency Performance GAO-25-107363 
  • Fishery Disaster Assistance: Process is Changing, but Challenges Remain to Improve Timeliness and Communication [Reissued with revisions on Jun. 25, 2025] GAO-25-107076 
  • Labor Organization Oversight: Department of Labor Should Enhance Enforcement and Assistance Processes GAO-25-107297 
  • Nuclear Waste Cleanup: DOE Needs to Improve Contractor Oversight at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant GAO-25-107333 
  • Priority Open Recommendations: Office of Science and Technology Policy GAO-25-108166 
  • Quantum Computing: Leadership Needed to Coordinate Cyber Threat Mitigation Strategy GAO-25-108590 
  • Veterans Crisis Line: Actions Needed to Better Ensure Effectiveness of Communications with Veterans GAO-25-107182 
  • Veterans Crisis Line: Actions Needed to Better Ensure Effectiveness of Communications with Veterans GAO-25-108411 
  • Veterans Health: Improvements Needed to Achieve Successful Appointment Scheduling Modernization GAO-25-106851 
  • Wildfire Management: Technologies for Forecasting, Detection, Mitigation, and Response GAO-25-108589 

 Heritage Foundation

 Hudson Institute

 Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

 Institute for Science & International Security

 Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP)

 Institute for the Study of War

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

 International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

  • Perspectives on Terrorism, 2025, v.19, no. 2 
    • Similarities and Differences between Terrorists and their Supporters: Findings from Northern Ireland
    • Learning in Times of Organisational Fluidity: Processes of Knowledge Production and Transfer in Leaderless Extremist Movements
    • The Foreign Policy and Enemy Perception of the Islamic State Khorasan Province: An Assessment of Voice of Khurasan and Sawt al-Khurasan
    • Kazakhstan’s Approach to the Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Child Returnees from Syria and Iraq: Restoring the Rights to Life and Development
    • Investigating Terrorist Use of Improvised Explosive Devices in the United States: Evidence from U.S. Federal Court Cases, 2009 – 2024
    • Power-Law Online Extremism and Terrorism

 International Crisis Group

 International Peace Institute (IPI)

 Jamestown Foundation

  • China Brief, June 21, 2025, v. 25, no. 12 
    • Authorities Renew Reform and Opening Amid Economic Pressures
    • Xi Jinping’s Central Position in Official Media Starts to Erode
    • Drills and Experts Suggest Beijing Favors Blockade on Longer Timeline
    • Scandal Exposes Technocracy, Nepotism, and Control Among PRC Elite
    • China Spares No Expense for Latin America and Caribbean Ties
    • ‘New National System’: Party-Directed Innovation Aligns Firms, Universities, and the State
    • ‘New National System’ Signals Next Phase of State-Led Tech Mobilization
    • New Legislation Could Increase Security Presence in Hong Kong
    • Fungus Smuggling Case Highlights Agricultural Espionage in the United States
    • Xinjiang Security Expo Reflects the Limits of U.S. Sanctions
  • Terrorism Monitor, June 25, 2025, v. 23, no. 2 
    • Brief: ISWAP Raids in Northeastern Nigeria Upset Regional Status Quo
    • Brief: How Hamas’s Degradation Opened Space for Protests
    • Malhama and Albanian Tactical Groups Train New Syrian Army and Special Forces
    • Rising Islamist and Anti-Hindu Sentiment in Bangladesh in Wake of Pahalgam Attack
    • Militant Monks Fuel Government Terror in Myanmar

 Jewish Institute for National Security of America

 Lowy Institute for International Relations

 Macdonald-Laurier Institute

 Marine Corps University Press

 Mercator Institute for China Studies

 Migration Policy Institute

 Mitchell Institute

 National Academies Press 

 National Defense University / Institute for National Security Studies (INSS)

 National Institute for Public Policy

 National Security Archive

 NATO Defense College

 NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence

 Naval War College Stockton Center for International Law

 Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI)

 Observer Research Foundation

 Pew Research Center

 Prime Minister of Canada

 Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

 RAND

 Reagan Institute

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

 S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

  • Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA), June 2025, v. 17, no. 4 
    • The Reactions of Militant Groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s Takeover of Syria
    • 'Operation Sindoor’: Will India’s Military Strikes in Pakistan Curb Cross-Border Terrorism?
    • The Remaking of Sectarian Fault-lines in Pakistan: Why Violence in Kurram Tribal District Matters?
    • Bangladesh's Evolving Security Crisis: The Rise of Religious Extremism Amid Political Transition

 Security Scorecard

 Simon Fraser University

  • Journal for Deradicalization, Summer 2025, no. 43 
    • An Evidence-Informed Theory of Change for Facilitating Disengagement from Violent Extremism: Insights from the Community Integration Support Program
    • Strengthening Evidence-based Practice in P/CVE with the INDEED Repository of Studies on Risk and Protective Factors
    • Leaving Terrorism Behind: The Healthy Identity Intervention Model of Change
    • Designing Multicultural-Based Islamic Education to Counteract Student Radicalization in Indonesia
    • Examining the Impacts of a Gamified Media Literacy Intervention in Indonesia
    • Al Shifa Home: A Model for the Rehabilitation of ISIS Combatants

 Special Inspector General Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

  • SIGAR 25-25-FA USAID’s Afghan Urban Water and Sanitation Activity: Audit of Costs Incurred by DT Global Inc. 

 State Armor

 Stimson Center

 Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS)

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

 Strauss Center

 Swedish Defense Research Agency

 Swedish Institute of International Affairs

 Swedish National China Centre

 Takshashila Institution

 Taylor & Francis

 Toda Peace Institute

 UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)

 UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

 UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI)

 UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

 U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission

 United States Studies Center—University of Sydney, Australia

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

 World Bank