Thursday, September 24, 2026

Friday's Miscellany 09-11-2026 & 09-18-2026

 38 North

 Amnesty International

Arab Center for Research & Policy Studies

 Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

  • Medical Surveillance Monthly Report (MSMR), August 2026, v. 33, no. 7 
    • Update: Diagnoses of Mental Health Disorders Among U.S. Active Component Service Members, 2021–2025
    • Trends in Postpartum Depression and Anxiety Diagnoses Among U.S. Active Component Service Women, 2010–2024
    • Chronic Insomnia and Military Separation: A Retrospective Matched Cohort and Nested Case-Control Study of U.S. Active Component Service Members, 2014–2023
    • Mid-Season Influenza Virus Genetic Characterizations in U.S. Department of War Populations, 2025–2026
    • Reportable Medical Events at Military Health System Facilities, First Quarter, 2026

 Army T2COM G2

 Army University Press

  • Military Review, September-October 2026, v. 106, no. 5 
    • The Benning Revolution 2.0: Upgrading Army PME to Close the Adaptation Gap
    • Command Without Control: Mission Command in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
    • The Army’s Work-Life Balance Problem: Research with Senior Leaders
    • Thinking Differently About Army Suicide: A Social Diagnosis 
    • When Delivery Success Fails: Why Time Must Define Authority in Military Networks
    • The Shape of the Fight: Using LiDAR and Fractal Geometry to Quantify Urban Complexity
    • The Assurance War: How Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United States Are Facing Digital Insurgency
    • Artificial Intelligence and Professional Authorship: Ownership of Thought When the Machine Is Off
    • Understanding Death Is the Best Way to Prevent It: Postmortem Data Is a Strategic Enabler for the Joint Force
    • The Hidden Casualty Load: Integrating Dental Emergencies into Large-Scale Combat Operations Planning
    • Operational Art in LSCO: Forging Deterrence by Denial on the Amazon Frontier
    • Tradition and Transformation: Forging Strategically Minded, Globally Competent Officers
    • Intellectually Nurturing the Warfighters the Nation Needs
    • Remembering 9/11

 Atlantic Council

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

 Brookings Institution

 Brown University Costs of War Project

 Bruegel

 Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

 Center for Advanced Defense (C4ADS)  

 Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

 Center for Global Development (CGD)

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

 Center for Security Studies (CSS) 

  • Russian Analytical Digest

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

 Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

Congress. House. Oversight and Government Reform Committee

 Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

 Council on Geostrategy

 Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

 Department of Defense/War, Inspector General (DODIG/DODIW)

  • DOWIG-2026-121 Audit of the DoW’s Management of Counter-Islamic State of Iraq and Syria Train and Equip Fund Equipment Designated for Iraq 
  • DOWIG-2026-120 Concerns Regarding the Defense Health Agency’s Second Bridge Contract for Technology Lifecycle Support Services 
  • Operation Epic Fury (OEF) 

 Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General

  • OIG-26-28 CBP's IT Access Control Deficiencies Introduced Critical Risk to IT Systems and Sensitive Information 
  • OIG-26-22 Unannounced Inspection of ICE's Florida Soft-Sided Facility ("Alligator Alcatraz") in Ochopee, Florida 

 Department of the Army

 Digi Americas

 Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab)

 Egmont: The Royal Institute for International Relations

 European Council on Foreign Relations

 European Union (EU)

 European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)                

 Foundation for Strategic Research (Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique)  

 Georgetown University

  • Georgetown Security Studies Review, Summer 2026, v. 14, no. 1 
    • Reactive by Design: Allied Pre-Attribution, Member State Entrepreneurship, and the Political Logic of EU Cyber Sanctions
    • Shaping War, Escalation by Escalation: AI and the Legitimacy of Conflict
    • When Allies Hedge: An LLM-Driven Geopolitical Risk Analysis of Germany’s Semiconductor Supply Chain
    • Can Autocrats be Feminists?: Strategies of Ruling Party Co-Optation of Women’s Rights Reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa

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

German Marshall Fund of the United States

 Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

  • Agricultural Diseases and Pests: Nationwide Assessment and Strategy Needed to Enhance the Climate Resilience of Farms and Forests GAO-26-106756 
  • Banking Services: Cannabis Businesses Face Access Challenges GAO-26-107498 
  • Chemical Security: DHS Should Provide Options for Voluntary Vetting of Facility Personnel for Terrorist Ties GAO-26-108127 
  • Coast Guard: Actions to Address Sexual Misconduct Underway but Incomplete GAO-26-109302 
  • Coast Guard: Opportunities Remain to Improve Access to Housing GAO-26-109300 
  • Cybersecurity: HHS Should Strengthen Oversight and Enhance Security Controls for the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline GAO-26-108836 
  • DHS Grants: Approach to Terminations and Pauses Disrupted Some Program Activities GAO-26-109097 
  • Disaster Risk: Improvements Needed to Enhance FEMA’s National Risk Index GAO-26-107894 
  • DOD Installation Services: Action Needed to Improve Oversight of Intergovernmental Support Agreements GAO-26-108092 
  • Economic Development Administration: Additional Collaboration with Other Agencies Could Reduce Risks Associated with Overlap GAO-26-107826 
  • Economy Act: An Overview GAO-26-900743 
  • Export-Import Bank: Expanded Use of Delinquent Federal Debt Data Could Better Mitigate Credit Risk GAO-26-108530 
  • Federal Personal Property: GSA Can Better Assess the Effectiveness of Its Disposal Efforts GAO-26-108521 
  • Federal Workforce: Deferred Resignation Program Largely Responsible for Sixfold Increase in Paid Administrative Leave Salary Costs GAO-26-108477 
  • Native American Issues: Preliminary Observations on Housing and Homelessness GAO-26-109173 
  • Nuclear Security Enterprise: Strategic Partnership Projects Can Support Mission, Operations, and Research GAO-26-108229 
  • Priority Open Recommendations: Department of State GAO-26-109086 
  • U.S. Postal Service: Cost-Cutting Initiatives and Other Factors Have Contributed to Declining Service Performance GAO-26-108527 
  • Whistleblower Protection: DHS Should Ensure Timely Resolution of Retaliation Complaints GAO-26-108106  

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

 Hoover's China Leadership Monitor

  • China Leadership Monitor, Fall 2026, no. 89 
    • China’s Emerging Grand Strategy: Timeline, Intellectual Origins, and Contours
    • China’s Great Power Vision Comes into Focus
    • China’s Economic Grand Strategy: Mission-Driven Finance and Tech Self-Reliance
    • The Four Seasons of Xi’s Foreign Policy
    • Russia and China’s Grand Strategy
    • CLM Insights Interview with Steve Tsang and Olivia Cheung

 Hoover Institution

  • Strategika, no. 107 Maritime Chokepoints  
    • “A Ship’s a Fool to Fight a Fort”: Chokepoints, Coastal Firepower, and the New Contest for the Maritime Commons 
    • Worried About Chokepoints? Make Them Irrelevant
    • Eurasia’s Chokepoints

 Human Rights Watch

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

 Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy (IFSH)

 Institute for Science and International Security

 Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP)  

 Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD)  

 Institute for the Study of War

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

 International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

Lawfare

 Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI)

National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO)  

 National Defense University Press

  • Joint Force Quarterly (JFQ),  120, (3rd Quarter 2026) 
    • The Logic of America’s Defense Strategy
    • From Data to Victory: The Race for Analytic Superiority in Warfare
    • Determining Operational Objectives
    • Examining the Lavelle Affair 54 Years Later: An Injustice That Needs to Be Rectified Now
    • Building the Mental Golden Dome: Arming the Joint Force for Defensive Cognitive Warfare
    • Boot Camp for the Mind: The Role of JPME in Developing National Security Strategists
    • Cyberspace Collaborative Awareness: A Model for Unity of Effort in Homeland Defense
    • Mission Over Bureaucracy: Special Operations Command Warrior-Driven Model for Defense Innovation
    • Disjointed Command and Air Domain Challenges in Alaska: Arming the Joint Force for Defensive Cognitive Warfare
    • Reimagining U.S. Industrial Mobilization
    • Resilient by Design: Reforming Medical Logistics to Support Global Operations
    • Advancing Blood Production and Distribution: Leveraging AI in the Expeditionary Care Environment
    • "Creating the Point of the Spear": The Deployment of Kitty Hawk (CV-63) as an Afloat Forward Staging Base During Operation Enduring Freedom

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

 New York City (NYC)

 Observer Research Foundation   

 Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES) 

 Pew Research Center

 Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

 RAND

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

 Soufan Center

 Springer

 Stanford Internet Observatory

  • Journal of Online Trust and Safety, 2026, v. 3, no. 3 
    • Digital Intersectionality and Marginalization in the Majority World
    • Deepfake Abuse and Gendered Digital Creative Violence: Feminist AI Interventions from Mexico
    • Deepfakes in the Global South: Understanding Stakeholder Perceptions, Harms, and Governance Challenges in Sri Lanka, India, and Bangladesh
    • Evaluating Multilingual Safety Benchmarks for Low-Resource Languages in the Majority World
    • Platform Oversight in Practice: How Language Shapes Procedure, Not Outcome, in Meta’s Oversight Board
    • Acceptance and Use of the National Digital Identity System in Indonesia
    • Security without Safety: Queering Cybersecurity in the Age of Digital Transnational Repression
    • Shaping Queerphobia: How X Amplifies Hate Speech against Iranian Queer Activists
    • “Our Content Should Be Treated Differently”: Race, Gender, Language, and the Experiences of Quechua Women on Social Media

 Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS)

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

 Swedish Defence Research Agency

 Taylor & Francis

 Toda Peace Institute

 UK Parliament House of Commons Library

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

 United States Studies Centre (USSC)

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

 White House

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