Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Friday's Miscellany 11-21-2025 [post government shutdown]

 38 North

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

 AidData

 American Enterprise Institute

 Amnesty International

 Alpine Eagle

 Arctic Institute

 Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

  • Medical Surveillance Monthly Report (MSMR), September 2025, v. 32, no. 9 
    • Update: Absolute and Relative Morbidity Burdens Attributable to Various Illnesses and Injuries Among Active Component Members of the U.S. Armed Forces, 2024
    • Update: Hospitalizations Among Active Component Members of the U.S. Armed Forces, 2024
    • Update: Ambulatory Health Care Visits Among Active Component Members of the U.S. Armed Forces, 2024
    • Update: Morbidity Burdens Attributable to Various Illnesses and Injuries Among Deployed Active and Reserve Component Members of the U.S. Armed Forces, 2024
    • Update: Medical Evacuations out of U.S. Central and U.S. Africa Commands Among the Active and Reserve Components of the U.S. Armed Forces, 2024
    • Update: Absolute and Relative Morbidity Burdens Attributable to Various Illnesses and Injuries Among Active Component Members of the U.S. Coast Guard, 2024

 Asia Society Policy Institute

 ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

 Atlantic Council

 Australian Institute of Criminology

  • Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, 2025
    • No. 722 Underage Use of Adult-Based Platforms: Risks and Experiences 
    • No. 724 Ransomware Targeting Individuals and Small Businesses: Vulnerabilities and Impacts 

 Australian Naval Studies Group [UNSW Canberra]

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

 Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES)

 Brookings Institution

 Canadian Global Affairs Institute (Institut Canadien Des Affaires Mondiales)

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

 Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute

 Cato Institute

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

 Center for Cybercrime Investigations & Cybersecurity

  • International Journal of Cybersecurity Intelligence and Cybercrime, 2025, v. 8, no. 2 
    • Navigating the Digital Frontier: New Perspectives on Cybercrime and Governance
    • Modus Operandi and Blockchain Analysis of Romance Scams: Cryptocurrency-Driven Victimization
    • The Legal Response to the Intrusion into Digital Identity in Social Media
    • Policy Considerations of Open-Source Intelligence: A Study of Bellingcat's Online Investigation Patterns (2014-2024)
    • A Study of Pattern of Cybercrime Abuse of Individual Internet Users in Umuahia North LGA, Abia State of South-Eastern Nigeria

 Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

 Center for Global Security Research

 Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

 Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment (CSBA)

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

 Central Asia-Caucasus Institute

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

 Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST)         

 Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy

 Chatham House

 Chicago Project on Security and Threats (CPOST)

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

 Clingendael Institute - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

 College of Europe

 Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

  • CTC Sentinel, October 2025, v. 18, no. 10 
    • A View from the CT Foxhole: Zohar Palti, Former Director, Policy & Political-Military Bureau, Israel’s Ministry of Defense
    • Inside Hamas: How It Thinks, Fights, and Governs
    • Hamas Plots in Europe: A Shift Toward External Operations?
    • The Future of the Illicit Captagon Drug Trade
    • Ten Years Later: The Legacy of the Paris Attacks on Complex Coordinated Terrorist Attacks in the West

 Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security

 Congress. Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party

 Congress. Senate. Senator Jon Ossoff

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

 Costs of War Project, Brown University

 Council on Foreign Relations

 Council on Geostrategy

 Council on Strategic Risks

 Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

 Department of Defense/War

 Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

 Egmont: The Royal Institute for International Relations

 Energy Information Administration (EIA)

 ENSURED Project

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

 European Council on Foreign Relations

 European Institute of the Mediterranean

 European Policy Centre (EPC)

 European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

 Exovera

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (Ulkopoliittinen instituutti)

 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)

 George Washington University Program on Extremism

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

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

 German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

 German Marshall Fund of the United States

 Global Financial Integrity

 Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

  • Health Insurance: Enhanced Data Matching Could Help Prevent Duplicate Benefits and Yield Substantial Savings GAO-25-106976 
  • Health Savings Accounts: Information on Features and Use, and Characteristics of Account Holders GAO-25-107480 
  • Information Environment: DOD Faces Risks with Publicly Accessible Information GAO-26-108771 
  • Information Environment: DOD Needs to Address Security Risks of Publicly Accessible Information GAO-26-107492 
  • Ukraine: State Should Take Additional Actions to Improve Planning for Any Future Recovery Assistance GAO-25-107043 

 Henley Putnam University

  • Journal of Strategic Security, 2025, v. 18, no. 3 
    • Trickle-Down Coordination: The National Security Advisor’s Role as the Strategic and Operational Planner of the DoD-DoS Interagency Relationship
    • Intelligence As an Instrument of National Power: Lessons Learned from the Tensions between Serbia and Kosovo
    • Centered? The Growing Role of Centers in Intelligence Studies Programs
    • What’s Wrong with These Pictures? A Critique of Waltz, Walt and McFaul
    • The Institutional Effect: Democracies, Dictators and Diversionary Foreign Policy
    • Vulnerable State’s Foreign Policy Navigation in a Multipolar World: Discerning Ethiopia’s Security Engagement with Turkey
    • Can Bilateralism Endure? The 2023-25 Gaza War and the Abraham Accords Framework
    • The I2U2: China’s Increasing Role in the Middle East and Geostrategic Implications on India
    • India’s Policy Shift towards Afghanistan under De Facto Taliban Government
    • Looking Inside Seychelles Beneficial Multi-Alignment Strategy amidst India-China competition
    • Assessing India-Philippines Defence Engagement: Strategic Alignments and Future Trajectories
    • Threat Perception in Taiwan: Trend and Implications
    • Growth of Reusable Space Technology: Commercial Opportunities and Military Advantages
    • The Element of Surprise: Highly Maneuverable Satellites and SSA
    • The Cost of Quantum Wars: Small State Standpoint
    • Identifying Signatures of Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena through Structured Analytic Techniques
    • Subterranean Warfare’s Strategic Coming of Age: The Israel-Hamas War of 2023-Present
    • SOFs and PMSCs: Factors of Stability and Change
    • AI-Enabled Terrorism: A Strategic Analysis of Emerging Threats and Countermeasures in Global Security
    • Black Widow and Black Tigress: Understanding the Female Suicide Attackers from Russia and Sri Lanka
    • Detecting Drone Threats at Stadiums and Public Venues: Overview, Operational Considerations, and Technical Implementation
    • Strategic Leadership in Security Media: Enhancing Community Safety Against Drug Abuse in Oman

 Henry L. Stimson Center

Heritage Foundation

 Hoover Institution

  • Strategika
    • no. 101 Battlefield Medical Supremacy 
    • no. 102 The Application of Artificial Intelligence to Modern Weaponry 

 Hudson Institute

 Human Rights Watch

 Mercator Institute for China Studies

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation

 Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

 Institute for Science and International Security

 Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP)

 Institute for the Study of War

 International Crisis Group

 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

 James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS)

 Jewish Institute for National Security of America  (JINSA)

 Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) Press

 Kiel Institut

 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

 Macdonald-Laurier Institute

 Mercator Institute for China Studies

 Mitchell Institute

 National Academies Press 

 National Bureau of Asian Research

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

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

 National Security Space Association (NSSA)

 Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI)

  • CMSI Note 17: Replacement Removed: VADM/General Wang Houbin—Naval Star Turned Rocket Force Commander’s Terminal Trajectory 
  • CMSI Translations #24: Accelerating the Development of (PLAN) Marine Corps Combat Capabilities to Win in High End Maritime Warfare 

 Naval War College Stockton Center for International Law

  • International Law Studies,
  • 2025, v. 106, no. 1 
    • Classification of the Armed Conflicts in the Near East
    • Iran and Its Proxies: Attribution and State Responsibility
    • U.S. Position on the Legal Character of the Law of the Sea Convention's Seabed Mining Provisions: U.S. Statement on Agenda Item 13, Meeting of States Parties to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, June 25, 2025
    • *U.S. Position on the Legal Character of the Law of the Sea Convention's Seabed Mining Provisions: U.S. Intervention on Agenda Item 8, International Seabed Authority Assembly, 30th Session, July 2025
  • 2025, v. 107, no. 1 Artificial Intelligence, War, and International Law 
    • Symposium—Introduction
    • Artificial Intelligence and the Prohibition on the Use of Force: Intention and Causation
    • Artificial Intelligence and the “Armed Attack” Threshold in International Law
    • Assessing the Role of AI in Determining the Necessity and Proportionality of the Exercise of Self-Defense Against an Armed Attack

 Observer Research Foundation

 Oxford University Press (OUP)

 Project on Technology and National Security

 Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

 RAND Corporation

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

 The Sentry

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

 Submariners' Advocacy Group

 Takshashila Institution

 Taylor & Francis

 UK Defence and Armed Forces

 UK Humanitarian Emergencies

 UK Parliament

 U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC)

 US Marine Corps (USMC)

 United States Studies Centre

 Yusof Ishak Institute