Friday's Miscellany 10-23-2026

 38 North

• Across the Border: An Area Awaiting Rural Development 
• Across the Border: North Koreans Work on the Southern Border Fence 
• At Long Last, Trucks Traverse New DPRK-Friendship Bridge 
• North Korea’s Unfinished Diaspora Diplomacy in Central Asia 

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

• Africa Becoming an Increasingly Central Hub for Latin American Cartels 

 Air University Press

• Air & Space Power, 2026, v. 36, no. 2 
• Twenty-First Century Air Operations Superiority, Denial, and Advancing the Dialogue
• A Taxonomy of Air Strategy: Three Snapshots at 30-Year Intervals
• The Future Aerial Warfighter: Out of the Airframe but Still in the Fight
• The US Military and the Moon: Evolving Roles, Missions, and Perspectives
• Building the Warfighting Acquisition System: Transforming the Fiscal Architecture
• Creating Strategic Agility in Long-Term Military Competition
• Reconstituting Air Force ROTC Field Training: Competency-Validation Design for the Great Power Competition Era
• Results at Any Cost?: LeMay, the Firebombing Campaign, and Leadership in Extremis

 American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

• Regulating the Frontier: How California, New York, and Illinois Are Governing the Most Powerful AI Models 

 Amnesty International

• Changing Tides: Reform and Resistance on the Death Penalty in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) 
• Human Rights Under Siege: Authoritarian Practices and Economic Pressure Amid Youth-Led Protests in Kenya 

 Arab Center of Washington

• From Amoral Politics to Immoral Politics: The Influence of the Trump Administration 

 Arctic Institute

• Advisory Parameters for Arctic Climate Intervention Assessments Report 2026 

 Asia-Pacific Leadership Network (APLN)

• Underwater-Nuclear Nexus in the Asia-Pacific: Nuclear-Powered Submarine Proliferation and Its Consequences 

 Atlantic Council

• European Union as a Compound Power in Cold War 2.0 

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

• Australian Protective Security Procurement Practices 
• Ten Years After the Arbitration: The Limits of Rules in the South China Sea 

 Brookings

• Repairing America’s Signaling on Taiwan 

 Bruegel  

• China’s Outbound AI Strategy Starts with Models and Governance and Ends with Chips 
• From Fragmented Procurement to a European Defence Market 
• Proposing Heating Efficiency Standards for Europe 

 Cambridge University Press

• Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
• A Drone-Integrated Artificial Intelligence-Based System for Mass-Casualty Triage and Remote Monitoring [open access article] 
• From Single Impact Sites to Dispersed Corridors: A Disaster Report of Emergency Medical Services Command Adaptation to Cluster-Munition Pattern Missile Strikes in Israel [open access article] 

 Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

• Canada-U.S. Relations 
• Canada, Turkey and the Terms of a Defence Reset 

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• End of Primacy Without Pain: Why the Domestic Foundation of American Power Is Crumbling 
• Political Economy of Protests in Iran 

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

• Charting the New Nuclear Age: Scenarios for the Two-Nuclear-Peer Challenge 

 Center for Advanced Defense (C4ADS) 

• A Marriage of Convenience?: The Promise and Pitfalls of Chinese-Russian Advanced Conventional Weapons Cooperation 

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

• CSS Policy Briefs
• No. 14: Beyond Cyberwar: How Digital Dependencies Shape Conflict 
• No. 13: Unpacking European Digital Sovereignty 
• No. 12: EU MODEX Switzerland: A Test with Wider Stakes 
• No. 11: Safeguarding Interests in a Geoeconomic World: The Swiss Maritime Flag 
• Russian Analytical Digest
• No. 346: Religion and Politics 
• No. 347: Artificial Intelligence, Technological Sovereignty, and Internet Control 
• Space Cyber Threat Intelligence: Threat Landscape Report 2025 

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• The AI Force the United States Needs is a Cyber Force 
• Avoiding Another Long War in Yemen 
• Beyond the U.S.-China Binary: The New Landscape of AI Partnerships in the Global South 
• Cartels, Cameras, and Commercial Data: Nonstate Actors and Ubiquitous Technical Surveillance 
• Could Russia Be Poised to Use an On-Orbit Weapon Against a Commercial Satellite? 
• Missile Diplomacy: North Korea Ramps Up Threats in Trump 2.0 
• No Front Lines: A Decision Guide for Companies Caught in Conflict 
• Not Just an Island: Why Geography Should Not Drive U.S. Taiwan Policy 
• Pacific Security Puzzle 
• Preparing U.S. Land Forces to Fight in an Era of Strategic and Technological Disruption 
• Race for Malaysia’s Rare Earths: An Indo-Pacific Strategy 
• Reshaping Defense: Secretary Hegseth’s Latest Initiatives, Point by Point 
• Space Superiority and the Military Tools to Secure It 
• Why the United States Needs Europe in Order to Win the Technology Race 
• Will AI Concerns Become a New Source of Terrorism? 

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

• Monetary Sovereignty in an Age of Digital Money 

 Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST)

• A Culture of Silence: What Witnesses May Leave Out of Online Reporting, and Why 
• Improving Interoperability Through Psychological Skills Training: Evidence from UK Emergency Responders 
• Paths of Engagement with the Com: A Mixed-Methods Study 

 Chatham House

• The UK Can and Should Show Leadership to Ensure the Viability of a Palestinian State. Here’s How to Start 

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

• Most Americans Favor Increasing Sanctions on Russia 

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

• The Achilles’ Heel of Self-Reliance: China’s “Chokepoint” Technologies 

 College of Europe

• Ceuta: an EU Constitutional Conundrum 

 Conference of Defense Associations Institute

• Community Resilience as a Strategic Asset: Strengthening Arctic Sovereignty and Defense Readiness in a Climate Changed North 

 Congress. House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party

• Free Trades, Hidden Ties: Exposing Webull’s China Links 
• Press Release 

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• A Primer on CBO's Projections of Federal Receipts and Expenditures in the National Income and Product Accounts 

 Council on Strategic Risks

• AI and National Security Convergence Fellowship 

 Counter Extremism Project (CEP)

• Beyond Border Control: Europe’s Migration Response and Counterterrorism Blind Spots After Ceuta 

 Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

• Flood Guide 
• Managing AI Token Consumption for Operational Resilience 

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

• Loss and Damage: Assessing Institutional Arrangements from National to Local Levels 
• Military Bases in Greenland Old and New: How to Secure Meaningful Local ‘Dual Use’ 

 Department of Defense/War (DOD/DOW)

• Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Speech on the Arsenal of Freedom in Dayton, Ohio (As Delivered) 
• Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Files 
• 7th Tranche 

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

• Fiscal Year 2027 Joint Strategic Oversight Plan for Operation Atlantic Resolve 
• Fiscal Year 2027 Comprehensive Oversight Plan Overseas Contingency Operations 

 Department of State Office of Inspector General

• AUD-FM-27-02 Audit of the U.S. Department of State’s Efforts to Manage the Withdrawal of the U.S. Agency for International Development from the International Cooperative Administrative Support Services Program 
• FY 2027 Comprehensive Oversight Plan for Overseas Contingency Operations 

 DTEX

• China Is Protecting Its AI Talent While Pursuing the West’s 

 Digi Americas

• Child Online Protection in Latin America: Risks, Frameworks, and Policy Responses 
• Digital Sovereignty in Latin America: Building Secure, Open, and Resilient Digital Ecosystems 
• Securing Critical Infrastructure in Latin America: Policy, Risk, and Resilience 

 East-West Center

• The Philippines Matters for America/America Matters for the Philippines (2nd Edition) 

 Egmont: The Royal Institute for International Relations

• Memoranda of Understanding? Minilateral Defence Frameworks and Avoiding the Fragmentation of European Defence 

 Energy Information Administration (EIA)            

• U.S. Refineries Have Been Running at Very High Rates in 2026 

 ENSURED Project

• A System Under Strain: What Role Should the EU Play in Multilateral Refugee Response? 

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

• Defending Europe Against Hybrid Warfare 

 European Commission (EC)

• EU’s Arctic Strategy 
• Factsheet 

 European Network for Economic and Fiscal Policy Research (EconPol)

• A Roadmap to Reducing Cost of Failure in Germany: Legislative Agenda, Impact Analysis, Transition, and Senior Workers Employability 

 European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA)

• COI Report - Sudan: Security Situation 

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

• Africa–EU Relations in a Fragmenting World: Time for a Mutually Beneficial Partnership at Last? 

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

• Germany’s Defense Shift: Merz, NATO, and Rearmament 
• Saudi Arabia Expands Missile Production at al-Duwadimi 
• Ülle Madise: Could a Lawyer Unify Estonia? 

 Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)

• Foreign Funding and Influence in America’s K-12 Education System 

 Foundation for Strategic Research (Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique) 

• Israeli Perspectives on the Future of Relations with Washington 
• Navigating the Timelines of Nuclear Energy in Europe: How Today’s Choices Shape the Future Energy Landscape 

 French Institute of International Relations (Institut Français des Relations Internationales)

• Pakistan and the Israel-Palestine Conflict: Transformation in Pakistan’s Approach After the War in Gaza 

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

• Ukraine Drives a New Regional Order in Eastern Europe 

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

• Sea Lanes at Risk, Maritime Order under Threat: Between Collective Defense and Global Power Projection—How Germany Can Retain Its Capacity to Act 

 German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

• A (Re)Newed Case for the UN: Europe and the Future of UN Leadership 

 Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

• Cocaine Corridors: Changing Trafficking Routes from Latin America and the Caribbean to Europe 
• Global Organized Crime Index 2025: Eastern Asia and South-Eastern Asia Overview 

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

• Collaborating for Chaos: Moving NVE Knowledge from Telegram to the Dark Web 
• The Women Behind the Screens: How Digital Evidence Enhances Our Understanding of Female Terrorism Offenders 

 Global Public Policy Institute (GPPI)

• Rethinking Feminist Foreign Policy: Lessons from Germany, Perspectives for the Future 

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• National Security: FBI Should Strengthen Partnerships to Combat Non-Traditional Intelligence Collectors GAO-27-109057 
• State Department: Standards for Overseas Housing Need Review [Reissued with revisions on Oct. 21, 2026] GAO-26-107965 

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS)

• Know Thy Enemy, Know Thyself: Simulations of Political Leaders’ Crisis Behaviour after a Ceasefire in Ukraine 

 Heritage Foundation

• Time Bought, Leverage Preserved: Outcomes of the Trump–Xi Summit in Washington 

 Hudson Institute

• Iran and Its Houthi Proxies Target Saudi Airports and Gulf Shipping 

 Human Rights Watch

• There Are No Independent Trade Unions in Vietnam: Hanoi’s Continuing Assault on Workers’ Right to Organize 

 IEMed – European Institute of the Mediterranean

• Corridorization in Fragmented Skies: Air Connectivity and Three-Dimensional Economic Corridors in the Euro-Mediterranean Region 

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

• Mobilizing for Techno-Economic War, Part 8: Establishing Policy and Programmatic Capabilities 

 Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

• Accelerationism and the ‘Post-Labour’ Dystopia 
• Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Consociational Democracy and the 2026 General Elections 
• Breaking the 38-Year Hiatus: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s Visit to Sri Lanka 
• Dragon on High Ground Counter-Balancing Chinese Capabilities in Space Domain 
• Israel’s Policy Towards the West Bank Since the 7 October 2023 Attack 
• Pégase 26 and the Architecture of Long-Range Air Power 
• A Year of Some Consequence for Global Cyber Governance 

 Institute for Integrated Transitions (IFIT)

• A Model Regulation for Modern Peacemakers: Establishing a Qualified Legal Defence for Good-faith Private Actors who Engage in Dialogue with Organised Criminal Groups 

 Institute for Science and International Security

• Various Levels of Cleanup at Mojdeh / Malek Ashtar University 

 Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP) 

• What Does China Actually Think About Sri Lanka? 

 Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) 

• US Election Platform Preparedness 2026 

 Institute for the Study of War

• China & Taiwan Update
• October 20, 2026 
• October 23, 2026 
• How Hezbollah Is Preventing Its Disarmament, Again 
• Iran Update
• October 19, 2026 
• October 20, 2026 
• October 21, 2026  
• October 22, 2026 
• October 23, 2026 
• October 24, 2026  
• October 25, 2026 
• The Myth of Inevitable Russian Victory over Ukraine 
• Korean Peninsula Update
• October 21, 2026 
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment
• October 19, 2026 
• October 20, 2026 
• October 21, 2026 
• October 22, 2026 
• October 23, 2026 
• October 24, 2026  
• October 25, 2026 

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

• The Hidden Costs of the US-Venezuela Oil Agreement 
• The New Laws of Risk 
• Rethinking European Security When the American Anchor Slips 
• Serbia’s Second Democratic Transition 
• Transatlantic Cooperation on Critical Material Supply Chains: Rock-Solid? 
• War in the Age of Commercial Spacepower: Five Lessons from Ukraine 
• US and European Visions of Global Governance
• Why Economic Security Must Be at the Heart of EU Enlargement 

 International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

• In Their Eyes: How European Security Services Look at Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism, 2026 Edition 
• “Tell Me How to Make a Bomb” Terrorist Use of Conversational AI: Evidence and Prospects 

 International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

• China’s Green Statecraft and NB8 Arctic Security  
• Europeanising NATO: European Way of War 
• Russian Expertise on Ukraine 

 International Crisis Group

• The Changing Role of Nuclear Weapons in Europe 
• Hollow Promises: Resetting Gaza’s Ceasefire 
• A Trigger in Jammu and Kashmir: Militant Violence under Indian Central Rule 

 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

• Borderless Global Threats: Criminal Hubs and Regional Security in Southeast Asia 

 Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) Press

• Nigeria’s Hidden War: The Jihadist Campaign Behind the “Farmer-Herder” Label—Implications for U.S. Special Operations Command and the Education-Security Nexus in Plateau and Benue States 

 Lowy Institute for International Relations

• Capitalising On (In)Security: Regulating Papua New Guinea’s Security Industry 
• Solving Papua New Guinea's Education Crisis 

 Marine Corps History Division

• Marine Corps History Magazine, Summer 2026, v. 12, no. 1 
• From Bayonets to Black Belts: The Evolution of Close Combat and the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program
• El Pulgarcito (the Little Flea) South of the Border: A Marine's Sketches from a Forgotten War, El Salvador, 1981-1982
• Lieutenant Colonel Ronald H. Spector, 17 January 1943-26 March 2026

 MITRE

• The New Economics of Cyber Risk in the Age of Frontier AI  

Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI)

• China Maritime Report #59: Be Focused, Be Humble, Be Happy: Career Progression, Organization, and Training of PLAN Submariners 
• CMSI Quarterly Review, Fall 2026, v. 1, no. 8 
• CMSI Translations #37: The Technical Evolution and Future Development of Chinese Navy’s Third Generation Conventional Submarine 

 Norwegian Defence Research Establishment

• A Scenario Analysis of Climate Change and China's Future as a NEAR-ARCTIC STATE 
• Security of Supply in Crisis and War – Vulnerabilities, Consequences, and Measures for the Food and Fuel Supply 

 Observer Research Foundation

• Beyond Washington: Gulf Partnerships Under Review 
• The India–Africa–UAE Trilateral: Energy Cooperation and Capital Mobilisation 
• The FATF and the Narcoterrorism Challenge in South Asia: Lessons from Pakistan 
• Policymaking for India’s Forests:  Lessons from the Chipko Movement 

 Our World in Data

• How Much Development Aid Is Spent on Climate Change? 

 Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES)

• LNG in Maritime Decarbonisation 

 Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

• Estimating Industrial Policy Subsidies in China 

 Pew Research Center

• Americans’ Views of ICE Grow More Negative 
• The Gender Gap in AI 
• How Americans View Federal Agencies 

 Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

• The Cost of the Iran War to American Farmers 

 RAND Corporation

• China's Local Government Debt: Implications for U.S.-China Competition 
• Ethical Risk, Sovereignty, and Research Governance: Protecting Persons, Peoples, and Knowledge in Southeast Alaska Research 
• Implications of the Future Information Environment for the UK’s Nuclear Strategy and Decision-Making 
• Response to Request for Information on Securing the United States Bulk-Power System 
• Retaining U.S. Air Force Combat Aviation Experience: Analyzing Alternative Instructor Career Paths for Fighter Communities 
• Towards a New Framework for Nuclear Deterrence in Europe: European Perceptions of Russian Nuclear Policy and the Role of the UK and France in NATO’s Nuclear Posture 
• U.S.-Japan Alliance Conference: The U.S.-Japan Alliance Today and Beyond 
• Winning the Undersea Knife Fight: A Deterrence Framework to Shape Subsea Dilemmas into Competitive Maritime Security Strategies 

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

• A Better Response for Fraud Victims 
• Illicit Timber Flows from Miombo Woodlands: The Tanzania Nexus 

 Serpens Center for International Security (SCIS)

• The Black Sea Blueprint for Taiwan. Ukraine’s Naval Lessons in Asymmetric Warfare 
• Defense Tech Monthly September 2026 

 Small Arms Survey

• Counter-Improvised Explosive Device Responses for Contemporary Threat Environments 

 Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP)

• The Open Frontier: How America Wins the AI Diffusion Race 

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

• The Military AI Industry’s Involvement in Armed Conflict: Implications Under International Humanitarian Law 

 Takshashila Institution

• Trump 2.0’s Indian Subcontinent Strategy 

 Taylor & Francis 

• African Security
• The Motivations of Banditry in North-West Nigeria [open access article]
• Conflict, Security & Development
• Can Local Elections Strengthen Peace? Insights from Post-Conflict Nepal [open access article] 
• Revolutionary and Emancipatory Peace in Nepal: Durability Versus Sustainability [open access article]   
• Ethics & Global Politics
• Refugees, Reciprocity, and Repatriation [open access article] 
• Geopolitics
• Liminal Citizenship, Discretionary Power, and Guest Workers in the U.S. Food System [open access article] 
• Journal of Military Ethics
• Ethics Before Deployment: Catholic Just War Theory and Doctrinal Development for Military AI [open access article] 
• Studies in Conflict & Terrorism
• The Benefits and Challenges of Classroom-Based Surveys for the Study of Radicalization and Extremism among Adolescents [open access article] 
• Data Collection in Online Terrorism and Extremism Research: Strengths, Limitations, and Future Directions [open access article] 
• In the Discomfort Zone: Emotional Labour and Reflexivity in Field Research on Extremism [open access article] 
• One of the Boys: On Researching the Far Right as a Woman [open access article] 
• Strengths and Weaknesses of Using Register Data to Study Extremism and Terrorism [open access article] 
• Using Agent Based Modelling to Advance Evaluation Research in Radicalization and Recruitment to Terrorism: Prospects and Problems [open access article] 

 Trans-European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA)

• Debunking Myths about the EU – EU Reality Check Series 
• Voluntary Partnership Agreements: Strategic Relevance, Implementation Challenges and Future Pathways in the EU’s Forest Governance and Trade Policy 

 UK Parliament

• Defense in the High North 

 UK Parliament House of Lords Library

• Conflict Prevention, Mediation and Peacebuilding: Role of the UN and UK 

 UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI)

• Crime-Proofing the Future: Safeguarding Sustainability Transitions 
• Operational Guide for Italian Businesses in Cases of Industrial Property Rights Infringement 

 UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA)

• Obliterated Weapon Markings: A Technical Analysis of Small Arms and Light Weapons Marking Obliteration, Methods of Recovery and Good Practice in Implementing the International Tracing Instrument 

 UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

• Typology of the Financial Aspects of Smuggling of Migrants 

 U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission

• AI Technology Stack Glossary 

 United States Studies Center—University of Sydney, Australia

• Leveraging Private Capital in Defense: Lessonsfor Australia from the United States