Friday's Miscellany 09-26-2025

 38 North

• Current Status of North Korea’s Drone Program 

 Belfer Center For Science and International Affairs

• Preventing an Era of Nuclear Anarchy: Nuclear Proliferation and American Security 
• Strategic Reckoning:  Perspectives on Deterrence and Escalation Post-Pahalgam 

 Brookings

• Tracking Work Permit Applications Among Eligible Immigrants 
• Who Bears the Burden of Climate Inaction? 

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• The European Radical Right in the Age of Trump 2.0 
• Preventing an Era of Nuclear Anarchy: Nuclear Proliferation and American Security 

 Center for Cybersecurity Policy and Law

• Addressing International IT Concentration Risk: A Five-Eyes Informed Exercise 

 Center for Immigration Studies (CIS)

• CBP Releases Latest Border Numbers 

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology  (CSET)

• Harmonizing AI Guidance:  Distilling Voluntary Standards and Best Practices into a Unified Framework 

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

• Policy Perspectives, September 2025, v. 14, no. 5 
• Switzerland’s Role in European Rearmament
• The Strategic Value of Civil Protection Exercises 

 Center for Space Policy and Strategy (CSPS)

• Solving the Puzzle of Evolving Space Ecosystems 

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• CRINK Diplomatic Ties: A Broader Tilt Toward the Global South 
• GreenCycles: A Framework for Designing Solar-Plus-Storage Tenders in Indian States
• Ideological Trends in U.S. Terrorism 
• Left-Wing Terrorism and Political Violence in the United States:  What the Data Tells Us 
• What Is the U.S. Posture Toward the United Nations?
• Why Congress Must Protect Cyber Sharing 

 Center for the Study of Intelligence

• Studies in Intelligence,  v. 69, no. 3, September 2025 
• Banker, Philanthropist, Soldier, Spy: David Rockefeller’s Experience in Army Intelligence, 1942–54
• Applying Epistemology to Analysis: Making the Case for Abductive Reasoning

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

• Hybrid Warfare: Ukraine, Russia and Western Lessons 

 Central Asia-Caucasus Institute

• After Karabakh: War, Peace, and the Forging of a New Caucasus 

 Chatham House

• Will Economic Policy Win China Friends in the Global South? 

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

• Ten Takeaways from the Russia-Ukraine War and Their Implications for a Taiwan Conflict 

 Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

• Armenia and Azerbaijan: Peace or Pause? 

 Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

• CTC Sentinel, September 2025, v. 18, no. 9 
• The Global State of al-Qa`ida 24 Years After 9/11
• Feature Commentary: Confronting Cartels: Military Considerations South of the Border
• Uzbek Foreign Fighter Groups in the Syrian Jihad: The Evolution of KIB and KTJ from 2011 through 2025
• Militant Violence in Jammu and Kashmir Post-Abrogation of Article 370

 Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee - Minority Report

• Unchecked and Unaccountable: How DOGE Jeopardized Americans' Data Without Regard for Law and Congress 

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• Potential Effects of a Federal Government Shutdown 

 Defense Acquisition University (DAU)

• Defense Acquisition, v. 54, no. 5, September-October 2025 
• Interview With Patrick N. Kelleher, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Materiel Readiness
• A Practical Framework for Transitioning Technology to the Warfighter
• Achieve On-time Contract Awards with the Procurement Management Tool
• Contract Terminations—What You Need to Know
• Acquisition, the Foreign Military Partner, and Strategic Thinking
• Military Services’ Ceiling Raised on Architect-Engineer Fees
• Acquisition 2.0—Time for a New Paradigm

 Department of Defense/War (DOD)

• Contingency Plan Guidance for Continuation of Operations in the Absence of Appropriations 
• DoDD 1020.02E Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity in the DoD 
• Full Speech: Trump, Hegseth's Address to Military Leaders at Rare Meeting in Quantico [video] 
• Transcript of Sec Hegseth's Address 

 Department of Defense, Inspector General (DODIG)

• DODIG-2025-172 Management Advisory: Evaluation of the DoD’s Development and Implementation of Quantum Technologies 
• DODIG-2025-167 Audit of U.S. Air Force Government-Owned, Government‑Operated Aviation Bulk Fuel Facilities Within South Korea 
• DODIG-2025-166 Audit of Storage and Maintenance of Marine Corps Prepositioned Equipment and Supplies on the U.S. Naval Ship Dahl in the Indo-Pacific Region 

 Department of Homeland Security Inspector General

• OIG-25-49 Review of DHS Preparation for the End of Title 42 Public Health Order Prohibiting Entry of Certain People to the United States 
• OIG-25-48 CBP May Be Missing Opportunities to Interdict Illicit Drugs and Contraband in the Cruise Environment (REDACTED) 
• OIG-25-47 Results of an Unannounced Inspection of ICE's Eloy Federal Contract Facility in Eloy, Arizona 
• OIG-25-46 CISA Has Not Finalized Plans for Automated Cyber Threat Information Sharing Beyond Cybersecurity Act of 2015 Expiration 
• OIG-25-45 FEMA Adequately Managed Port Security Grants, but Program Effectiveness Remains Unevaluated 
• OIG-25-44 Results of August 2024 Unannounced Inspections of CBP Holding Facilities in the San Diego Area 
• OIG-25-43 Inadequate Cybersecurity Rendered DHS Headquarters High-Value System Vulnerable to Attack 
• OIG-25-42 CBP's Deficient Mobile Device Management Places Information at Increased Risk - (REDACTED) 

 Department of State

• 2025 Trafficking in Persons Report 
• Foreign Relations of the United States, 1989–1992, Volume XXXI, START I, 1989–1991 

 Department of State Inspector General

• AUD-GEER-25-30 Joint Audit of U.S. Assistance Provided in Support of Ukraine Through the Foreign Military Financing Program 
• FY 2026 Comprehensive Oversight Plan for Overseas Contingency Operations 

 Egmont: The Royal Institute for International Relations

• The Ice: The Confrontation That Cannot Thaw 

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

• Benin's Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 
• Burkina Faso's Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 
• Cabo Verde's Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 
• Togo's Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

• The War in Sudan in the Era of a Multipolar World: Mismanaged Rather Than Forgotten 

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)              

• Glimmers of Optimism: Evaluating Taiwan’s Evolving Political Landscape 
• The Return of Subic Bay 

 George Washington University Program on Extremism

• The Silent Rise of the Left-Wing Militia 

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

• Climate Tipping Threats:  Addressing Systemic Risk Through Germany’s National -Security Council and Its Bid for the UN Security Council 

 German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

• China’s Claim to a New World Order 
• Four Scenarios for an IPCC Navigating Artificial Intelligence 
• Fragmented Approaches, Missed Opportunities: Security Coordination Challenges in Nigeria’s DDRR Efforts 
• The Political Fallout of European Migration Policy in Libya 

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

• Gen-Zs and Ghost Guns: Trends, Threats and Implications
• Virtual Worlds, Real Threats: Violent Extremist Exploitation of Roblox and Wider Gaming Ecosystems

 Global Public Policy Institute (GPPI)

• Pathways to Peace: Fostering Coordination in Sudan’s Mediation Processes 

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Bureau of Prisons: Strategic Approach Needed to Prevent and Address Employee Misconduct GAO-25-107339 
• Disaster Recovery: Use of HUD Block Grant Funds to Meet Cost-Share Requirements GAO-25-107603 
• Extreme Heat: Limited FEMA Assistance Highlights Need for Reevaluation of Agency’s Role GAO-25-107474  
• Federal Research: Agency Funding and Outreach to Historically Black, Tribal, and Minority-Serving Colleges and Universities GAO-25-107576 
• Federal Spending Transparency: Actions Needed to Help Ensure Procurement Data Quality GAO-25-107469
• Forest Service: Next Steps Are Uncertain for Improving Communications for Wildland Firefighters and Tracking Their Locations GAO-25-107905 
• Government Contracting: Leveraging Federal Buying Power Can Save Billions GAO-25-108638 
• Government Performance Management: Implementing GAO's Recommendations Would Help OMB Address Crosscutting Challenges GAO-25-108008 
• K-12 Education: Prevention and Response to Adult Sexual Misconduct in Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps Programs GAO-25-107670 
• Military Personnel: More Guidance Could Help Address Service Member Gambling Problems GAO-25-107700 
• National Nuclear Security Administration: Agency Should Improve Cost Growth Notification Process GAO-25-107767 
• National Nuclear Security Administration: Information on Implementation of Contractor Commuting Authority GAO-25-108065 
• Nuclear Power: Nuclear Regulatory Commission Relies on Information From its Reactor Oversight Process to Ensure Safety GAO-25-107807 
• Nuclear Waste Cleanup: DOE Should Collect Information Specific to Soil and Legacy Landfills to Inform Overall Remediation Efforts GAO-25-107565 
• Persistent Chemicals: DOE Should Complete Efforts to Review PFAS Use GAO-25-107809 
• Sexual Harassment: Actions Needed to Ensure Consistent Agency Policies for Research Institutions GAO-25-107750 
• Status of Open GAO Recommendations to the Director of National Intelligence GAO-25-108612 
• Terrorism Risk Insurance Act: Considerations for Reauthorization GAO-25-108748 
• Ukraine: State Should Build on USAID’s Oversight of Direct Budget Support GAO-25-107057 
• Veterans Employment: VA Should Address Human Capital Needs and Other Issues in High-Tech Training GAO-25-106876 
• Weapon System Sustainment: DOD Can Improve Planning and Management of Data Rights [Reissued with revisions on Sep. 29, 2025] GAO-25-107468 
• Weapon System Sustainment: Various Challenges Affect Ground Vehicles' Availability for Missions GAO-25-108679  

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

• Responsible by Design: Strategic Guidance Report on the Risks, Opportunities, and Governance of Artificial Intelligence in the Military Domain 

 Henry L. Stimson Center

• Future of International Cooperation Report 2025:  Justice in Action 

 Heritage Foundation

• Nine for the Navy:  Proposals to Accelerate a Delayed Naval Buildup 

 Horizon Advisory

• The Risk of Chinese Controlled Port and Rail Megaprojects in Peru 

 Hudson Institute

• Airpower for the Post-Dominance World:  Restoring U.S. Air Superiority Through a New Combined Arms Approach 
• Information Inoculation: Preparing US Warfighters for Cognitive War 
• Japan and Australia’s Mogami Gamble:  A New Role in a Taiwan Strait Contingency 
• Reducing the US Force Presence in Europe Would Weaken American Interests 

 IJ Infinity Group

• Military Strategy Magazine, v. 10, no. 2, Spring 2025 
• Civil War Comes to the West, Part II: Strategic Realities
• Strategy for a Complex Age: To Frame or Solve?
• Political Obedience as a Military Strategic Asset: From Cyrus to the 2023 War in Gaza
• A New Fight: Deception, Adaptation, and Regeneration
• Distributed Maritime Operations, Logistics, Industry, and American Strategy in Asia
• Multi-Dimensional Game-Theory Analysis of North Korean Nuclear Threat

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

• Don’t Let Chinese EV Makers Manufacture in the United States 
• One Law Sets South Korea’s AI Policy—and One Weak Link Could Break It 

 Institute for the Study of Warfare

• Adversary Entente Task Force Update
• Sept 25 
• Africa FileSept 25 DRC Ceasefire Collapse; Turkish Troops to Niger; El Fasher on the Brink 
• China-Taiwan Weekly Update
• Sept 22 
• Sept 26 
• Iran Update
• Sept 22 
• Sept 23 
• Sept 24 
• Sept 25 
• Sept 26 
• Sept 29 
• Sept 30 
• Russia Continues Efforts to Regain Influence over Moldova 
• Russian Occupation Update
• Sept 26 
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment
• Sept 22 
• Sept 23 
• Sept 24 
• Sept 25 
• Sept 26 
• Sept 27 
• Sept 28 
• Sept 29 
• Sept 30 

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

• Don’t Let Chinese EV Makers Manufacture in the United States 

 International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

• Between Giants: Central Asia Balancing China, Russia, and the Rest 
• Ruptures at the Top of the World: High North Network Infrastructure Protection 
• Russia and the Red Sea since 2022: Militarised Foreign Policy or Strategy of Conflict? 

 International Crisis Group

• India-Pakistan:  Avoiding a War in Waiting  

 Issue One

• America Exposed: How the Politicization of Cyber Is Crippling U.S. National Security 

 Jamestown Foundation

• China Brief, September 20, 2025, v. 25, no. 17 
• ‘AI +’ Initiatives Multiply After Years of Experimentation
• PRC Consolidates Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Dominance
• Xi Jinping’s Visit to Lhasa Elevates Tibet in National Policymaking Agenda
• Corruptible Connections: CCP Ties and Smart Device Dangers
• Decoding Beijing’s ‘Colonization of the Mind’ Narrative
• Dissipative Warfare: The PLA’s Potential New Strategy in the AI Era

 Jewish Institute for National Security of America

• Partners in Production: U.S.-Middle East Cooperation to Enhance Our Collective Defense Industrial Base 

 Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) Press

• Cognitive Warfare to Dominate and Redefine Adversary Realities: Implications for U.S. Special Operations Forces 

 Macdonald-Laurier Institute

• Distorted Reality: Putin’s Media on the North American Arctic 

 National Academies Press 

• Assessing Research Security Efforts in Higher Education: Proceedings of a Workshop 
• Exploring Military Exposures and Mental, Behavioral, and Neurologic Health Outcomes Among Post-9/11 Veterans 

 National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR)

• Advancing Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) in the Asia-Pacific:  Opportunities, Challenges, and Strategic Pathways 
• Policing Beyond Borders:  China’s Law-Enforcement Expansion in the Mekong Region 
• Powering Transitions:  The Future of Energy Storage in the Indo-Pacific 

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

• Ending the Threat from Iran 

 Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI)

• China Maritime Report #50: Foggy With a Chance of Surprise Attack: PLA Amphibious Deception in a Taiwan Scenario 
• CMSI Translations #23: The Elusive "Deep-Sea Beast": Analysis of the Performance of the Main Equipment of the U.S. Navy Virginia-Class Nuclear Attack Submarine 

 Naval War College Stockton Center for International Law

• International Law Studies, 2025, v. 106, issue 1 
• Space: The Final Frontier (For State Power): The History of the East India Company and the Future of Outer Space 
• Commander, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, Remarks at the 2025 Military Law and Operations Conference 

 Observer Research Foundation

• India and Visegrad Four: Cooperation in a Turbulent World 
• Mapping the Recent Trends in China’s Military Modernisation - 2025 
• Shifting U.S. Approaches to Eurasia 

 Our World in Data

• Foreign Aid from the United States Saved Millions of Lives Each Year 

 Oxford University Press (OUP)

• Architectures of Global AI Governance: From Technological Change to Human Choice [open access book] 
• Creative Construction: Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond [open access book] 
• Fragile Aid: Development Cooperation in Weak States and Conflict Contexts [open access book] 
• Making Global Norms: Politics versus Science in International Organizations [open access book] 
• Rural Criminology in Global Perspective: State of the Art on the World's Continents [open access book] 
• Voices from the Soviet Edge: Southern Migrants in Leningrad and Moscow [open access book] 

 President of Ukraine

• Speech by the President During the General Debate of the UN General Assembly in New York 

 RAND

• AI Use in Schools Is Quickly Increasing but Guidance Lags Behind 
• The Artificial General Intelligence Race and International Security 
• Fire and Our Future: Results from RAND Workshop on Envisioning Interactions with the Built Environment, Utilities, and Health Systems in 2075 
• A Framework for Setting Special and Incentive Pays in the Department of the Air Force: Motivation, Development, and Analysis to Support the Framework 
• A Model of Air Force Enlisted Retention: Theoretical Background, Implementation, and Estimates Using Conditional Choice Probability Estimation  
• Prioritizing Feasible and Impactful Actions to Enable Secure Artificial Intelligence Development and Use in Biology 

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

• North Korea’s Chemical Imports: Technical Assessment 2 

 Special Inspector General for Operation Atlantic Resolve  (OAR)

• Special Inspector General for Operation Atlantic Resolve : FY 2026 Joint Strategic Oversight Plan 

 Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)

• Validating Claims About AI: A Policymaker’s Guide 

 Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS)

• The Future Russian Way of War – Part 1: State Mobilisation 

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

• Export Controls and Spyware: Enhancing Oversight, Transparency and Restraint 
• Towards Multilateral Policy on Autonomous Weapon Systems 

 Taylor & Francis

• Defence Studies, 2025
• The Event-Agency-Structure Framework for Explaining Continuity and Change in Foreign and Defence Policy in Europe: The Case of Germany Prior to and After the Zeitenwende [open access article] 
• EU-NATO Cooperation Reloaded: The Impact of European Strategic Autonomy [open access article] 
• Transatlantic Solidarity in the Shadow of the Russian–Ukrainian War: A Neorealist Explanation [open access article] 
• Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2025
• Sanctioned Discrimination: Asylum Seekers and the UK’s Hostile Environment [open access article] 
• Geopolitics, 2025
• Awakening the Heartlands: A Study of Middle America and Central Europe as Geopolitical Imaginaries of the Radical Right [open access article] 
• Beyond Eurocentrism: Globalising and Decentring Research on Micro-Regional Cross-Border Cooperation  [open access article] 
• Geopoliticisation of Belonging: The Russo-Ukrainian War and Spatial Narratives of Finnish Researchers Studying Russian Literature [open access article] 
• The Imperial Gaze: Affective Governance, Hybrid Cartography, and China’s U-Shaped Line  [open access article] 
• Iranian Drones at the Service of Authoritarian Geopolitics [open access article] 
• Local Engagement of Nigerians with Neocolonial EU Humanitarian Return Policies: Civic Policing and Awareness-Raising Activities [open access article] 
• Narrating Geopolitics: Strategic Narratives of Georgia’s EU Candidacy [open access article] 
• A New Era of Vaccine Diplomacy: Navigating the US-China Rivalry in Southeast Asia, 2020–2022  [open access article] 
• Palestine’s Post-2012 External Statehood Performativity: Diplomatic Agency and International Discourse [open access article] 
• Sheltering the Nation: The Politicisation of Ukraine’s Civilian Shelters Amidst Russia’s Aggression [open access article] 
• States of Un/Knowing: The Un/Making of the European Deportation Regime [open access article] 
• Global Crime, 2025
• Identifying Cross-Contextual Fear of Crime: A Comparison of the Victimisation-Fear Relationship Between Offline and Online Contexts [open access article] 
• Possible Effects of Cheap Fentanyl on Drug Markets, Use and Harm: A Theoretical Analysis [open access article] 
• Journal of Strategic Studies, 2025
• Hidden Violence and Silenced Voices: Why Have Lessons About Women in Counterinsurgency Not Endured? [open access article] 
• Know Thy Enemy? Generating, negotiating and Codifying Knowledge of Insurgencies into U.S. Counterinsurgency Doctrine, 2004–2006 [open access article] 
• What Contributions Do Anti-Insurgent Militias Produce During Armed Conflict? Exploring the Capabilities of Anti-Insurgent Militias in Colombia and the Philippines [open access article] 
• What Lies Over the Horizon? Remoteness and the Evolution of American Global Counterterrorism  [open access article] 
• Small Wars & Insurgencies, 2025
• Arabian command: the British officers who led the Sultan of Oman’s forces to victory in the Dhofar War (1965–75) [open access article] 
• The Foundations of Exercise ALCORA: South African Military Support to the Portuguese Armed Forces in Angola, 1966–1970 [open access article] 
• Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 2025
• Radicalization as and in Process: Tracing Journeys through an “Extreme-Right” Milieu [open access article] 

 Toda Peace Institute

• Slumdogs and the Millionaire: What a Project to Transform Mumbai Says About India’s Democracy 

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

• Debt Challenges and Fiscal Space Constraints in Developing Countries : How to Overcome Them to Invest in Sustainable Development at Scale? 
• TheUse of Macroeconomic Indicators in Climate Action  

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• Resilience and Roadblocks:  The Abraham Accords at Five Years 

 World Bank

• Using Remotely Sensed Data to Assess War-Induced Damage to Agricultural Cultivation: Evidence from Ukraine