Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Friday's Miscellany 08-08-2025 & 08-15-2025

 38 North

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

 Air University Press

  • Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs, Summer 2025, v. 8, no. 2 
    • Japan, the War in Ukraine, and Japan–Europe Relations: A G7-NATO Alignment Perspective
    • Between Scylla and Charybdis: Japan’s Response to the October 7 Hamas Attack and Its Aftermath
    • Middle-Power Diplomacy in the Age of Great-Power Competition: Japan, the Philippines and the South China Sea Disputes
    • Japan–India Strategic Evolution in the Indo-Pacific: Partnerships, Security, and Regional Order

 American Enterprise Institute

 Army University Press

  • Strength in Knowledge: The Warrant Officer Journal, January-March 2025 v. 3 no. 1 
    • PB1918: A Quick Look Back and a Glimpse into the Future
    • Step Out of Your Boots to Find Innovation: Eagles Rise Higher, Embedded with Industry
    • The Forgotten Warriors
    • Special Operations Forces - Multi-Domain Task Force Integration: Lighter, Faster, Stronger...
    • Revamping Readiness in the Army Reserve
    • The Exhausted Instructor - Guarding the Army Ethic
    • LET’S GO ARMY, FINISH THE RACE!
    • Retaining Expertise Through Lost-Cost Opportunity, Innovation, and Modernization
    • Army Warrant Officer Broadening Assignments
    • The Key Role of Army National Guard Bands in the State Partnership Program: The Powerful Impact of Collaboration
    • The Importance of Stress
    • Strengthening Information Warfare Capability and Capacity: The Case for Information Operations Warrant Officers in the U.S. Army

 Army War College Press

 Asia Foundation

 Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)

 Atlantic Council

 Australian Army Research Center

 Australian Industry Group (Ai Group)

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

 Bipartisan Policy Center

 British American Security Information Council (BASIC)

 Brookings

 Bruegel

 Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

 Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

 Center on Islam, Democracy and the Future of the Muslim World    

  • Current Trends in Islamist Ideology, August 2025, v. 36 
    • Badr Organization: Iran’s Oldest Proxy in Iraq
    • Aligning Prayers and Push-Ups: Exploring the Rise of “Salafitness”
    • Jamaat-ud-Dawa and the Pakistan Army’s Narratives
    • Religious Vigilantism in Pakistan: A Growing Crisis
    • Boko Haram 2.0? The Evolution of a Jihadist Group since 2015
    • Hillbillies or Riders of the Apocalypse? The Strange Case of the Islamic State in Somalia

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

 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

 Congress. Senate. Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee

 Congress. Senate. Senator Joel Ossoff

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

 Council on Strategic Risks (CSR)

Department of Defense (DOD)

 Department of Defense, Inspector General (DODIG)

  • DODIG-2025-133 Unclassified Summary of “Audit of DoD Hotline Allegations Concerning the Defense Cooperation Agreement with Kuwait 
  • DODIG-2025-134 Audit of the DoD’s Accountability Controls over War Reserve Stock for Allies-Israel Inventory 
  • DODIG-2025-135 Evaluation of the Demilitarization of Damaged and Destroyed Defense Articles Requiring Enhanced End Use Monitoring in Ukraine 
  • DODIG-2025-137  Audit of Controls Over Funds Provided for the Replenishment of Defense Articles and the Reimbursement for Services Provided to the Government of Ukraine Through Presidential Drawdown Authority 
  • DODIG-2025-146 Follow-Up Evaluation of Longstanding Healthcare-Related Report Recommendations for the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness and the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment  
  • Operation Atlantic Resolve (OAR) 

 Department of State Inspector General

 Energy Information Administration (EIA)

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

 European Council on Foreign Relations

 European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)

 Federal Reserve Bank of New York

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (Ulkopoliittinen instituutti)

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

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

 Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

 Global Public Policy Institute (GPPI)

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

  • Carbon Credits: Limited Federal Role in Voluntary Carbon Markets GAO-25-107128 
  • Chief Information Officer Open Recommendations: Department of Homeland Security GAO-25-108460 
  • Chief Information Officer Open Recommendations: Environmental Protection Agency GAO-25-108540 
  • Federal Workforce: Selected Agencies Need to Improve Employee Name Change Process GAO-25-107045 
  • Terrorist Watchlist: Nomination and Redress Processes for U.S. Persons GAO-25-108349  
  • Water Infrastructure Resilience: Agencies Could Better Assess Efforts to Assist Communities Vulnerable to Natural Disasters GAO-25-107013 

 Heritage Foundation

 Hoover Institution

  • Strategika, no. 100 
    • Strategika Turns 100: Why the Hoover Institution’s Military History Working Group Was Formed and Grew
    • The Post-Heroic Era and Beyond: An Historical Assessment of European Armed Forces
    • Military History in Academia

 Hudson Institute

 Human Rights Watch

 Information Technology Industry Council (ITI)

 Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

 Institute for Integrated Transitions (IFIT)

 Institute for National Security Studies (Israel)

 Institute for Science and International Security

 Institute for Security and Development Policy

 Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD)  

 Institute for the Study of Warfare

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

 Intelligence & National Security Alliance (INSA)

 International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

 International Crisis Group

 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

 Jamestown Foundation

  • PLA System of Systems Operations:  Enabling Joint Operations 
  • Terrorism Monitor, July 30, 2025, v. 23, no. 4 
    • Brief: As Philippine Province Declared Free of Abu Sayyaf, Counterterrorism in Southeast Asia Moves Online
    • In a First, Portuguese Police Find Extremists’ Cache of 3D-Printed Firearms
    • Amid Geopolitical Tensions, Baloch Militant Attacks Undermine Sino–Pakistan Projects
    • Do the Suwayda Clashes in Syria Signal Future Clashes Between the Kurds and the New Syrian Regime?

 Jewish Institute for National Security of America

 Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) Press

 Kiel Institute for the World Economy

 Latvian Institute of International Affairs (LIIA)

 Lowy Institute for International Relations

 Macdonald-Laurier Institute

 Mercator Institute for China Studies

 Middle East Forum

 Middle East Institute

 Missile Defense Agency (MDA) 

 Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

 National Academies Press

 National Bureau of Asian Research

 National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS)

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

 Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI)

  • China Maritime Report #49: The PLAN Corruption Paradox: Insights from the 1st Destroyer Flotilla 
  • CMSI Translations #22: Implications of the U.S. Navy's "Sea Base" Construction for Equipment Support in Cross-Sea Landing Operations  

 Naval War College Stockton Center for International Law

 Norwegian Defence Research Establishment

 Observer Research Foundation

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

 Oxford University Press (OUP)

 Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

 Pew Research Center

 Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

 RAND Corporation

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

 Security Scorecard

 Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

  • SIGAR 25-29-LL  A Broken Aid System: Delivering U.S. Assistance to Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan 

 Strider

 Taylor & Francis

 Toda Peace Institute

 U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)

 UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

 UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA)

 University of Western Australia (UWA) Defence and Security Institute 

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

 White House