Friday's Miscellany 10-10-2008

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

· High Resolution Satellite Imagery and the Conflict in South Ossetia

American Enterprise Institute

· "Third Neighbor" Strategy for Asia

· United States Foreign Policy and Strategic Dimensions

Amnesty International

· No Going Home—Tens of Thousands Unable to Return to Homes in Georgia

Association of the U.S. Army

· Logistics and the Combatant Commander: Meeting the Challenge

· Planning for Employment of the Reserve Components: Army Practice, Past and Present

· The War on Terror and the War for Officer Talent: Linked Challenges for the U.S. Army

Atlantic Council of the United States (ACUS)

· Grim Prospects in Afghanistan

Brookings Institution

· Arts and Culture in the U.S.-Muslim World Relationship

· Making the Rescue Package Work: Asset and Equity Purchases

· Reform the IMF or Create a New Global Agency, But Do Something

· Top 10 Global Economic Challenges Facing America's 44th President

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

· Are New Nuclear Bargains Attainable?

· Turkey’s Middle East Policies: Between Neo-Ottomanism and Kemalism

Center for Defense Information (CDI)

· Afghanistan Update: September 2008

· The Defense Monitor, Volume XXXVII, No. 5 - September/October 2008

Center for European Reform

· Pipelines, Politics and Power: The Future of EU-Russia Energy Relations

Center for Security Studies (CSS)

· No. 41: "US Foreign Policy under Bush: Balance Sheet and Outlook"

Center for Security Policy

· The Other Debate: Frank Gaffney vs. Suhail Khan

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)

· A Road Map from Conflict to Peace: A Discussion on the Army’s New Doctrine for Stability Operations and the Implications for Foreign Policy

· Security and Governance in Afghanistan: Needed Actions and Foreign Limitations

· The US, Israel, the Arab States and a Nuclear Iran

· Winning the War in Afghanistan

Congress. Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

· Report on Challenges and Recommendations for United States Overhead Architecture

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

· The Effects of Recent Turmoil in Financial Markets on Retirement Security

· Monthly Budget Review

Director of National Intelligence (DNI)

· Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) 704 - Personnel Security

· Intelligence Community Policy Guidance (ICPG) 704.1 - Investigative Standards

· Intelligence Community Policy Guidance (ICPG) 704.2 - Adjudicative Guidelines

· Intelligence Community Policy Guidance (ICPG) 704.3 -Denials or Revocation of Access to SCI

· Intelligence Community Policy Guidance (ICPG) 704.4 - Reciprocity

· Intelligence Community Policy Guidance (ICPG) 704.5 - IC Database

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

· The Georgia Crisis and Continuing Democratic Erosion in Europe/Eurasia

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

· Department of Defense: A Departmentwide Framework to Identify and Report Gaps in the Defense Supplier Base Is Needed GAO-09-5

· Highway Safety: Foresight Issues Challenge DOT's Efforts to Assess and Respond to New Technology-Based Trends GAO-09-56

· Information Technology: Management Improvements Needed on the Department of Homeland Security's Next Generation Information Sharing System GAO-09-40

· Private Equity: Recent Growth in Leveraged Buyouts Exposed Risks That Warrant Continued Attention GAO-08-885

· Sovereign Wealth Funds: Publicly Available Data on Sizes and Investments for Some Funds Are Limited GAO-08-946

· Veterans' Disability Benefits: Better Accountability and Access Would Improve the Benefits Delivery at Discharge Program GAO-08-901

Heritage Foundation

· Changing Course on Navy Shipbuilding: Questions Congress Should Ask Before Funding

· Securing Global Supply Chains: 10 Plus 2 Container Security Ruling Needed

· Shaping the NATO—EU Relationship: What the U.S. Must Do

· Taiwan Arms Sales: Less Than Meets the Eye

Hudson Institute

· America's Challenges in the Middle East

Human Rights Watch

· Torture and Impunity in Jordan’s Prisons: Reforms Fail to Tackle Widespread Abuse

Human Security Report Project

· miniAtlas of Human Security

Information Sharing Environment (ISE)

· Inclusion of Information Sharing Performance Evaluation Element in Employee Performance Appraisals

Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis

· Reforming Military Support for Foreign Disaster Relief and Humanitarian Assistance

· The U.S. Foreign Disaster Response Process: How It Works and How It Could Work Better

International Relations and Security Network

· The Coming Revolution in Intelligence Affairs

· Shia-Sunni Rift Overstated

International Security

v. 32,no. 4, Spring 2008

· What Terrorists Really Want: Terrorist Motives and Counterterrorism Strategy by Max Abrahms

Joint Chiefs of Staff

· Joint Publication 3-04: Joint Shipboard Helicopter Operations, 30 September 2008

Lexington Institute

· Future Security: Keeping TSAT on Track Is Essential

National Academies Press

· Antivirals for Pandemic Influenza: Guidance on Developing a Distribution and Dispensing Program [free download available]

· English-Chinese, Chinese-English Nuclear Security Glossary [free download available]

· Protecting Individual Privacy in the Struggle Against Terrorists: A Framework for Assessment

National Security Archive

· Trujillo Declassified: Documenting Colombia's 'Tragedy Without End'

Naval War College, Newport Papers

· Major Naval Operations

Pew Global Attitudes Project

· Trickle-Down Global Economics: World Already Saw U.S. Influence as Negative

RAND

· Final Report of the Panel on the Department of Defense Human Capital Strategy

· Recommended Infrastructure Standards for Mass Antibiotic Dispensing

· Unconventional Fossil-Based Fuels: Economic and Environmental Trade-Offs

Stanley Foundation

· Strategic Deterrence and US Nuclear Weapons Policy

UK Parliament

· The Treaty of Lisbon: An Uncertain Future

US Institute of Peace (USIP)

· Abrahamic Alternatives to War: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives on Just Peacemaking

· Haiti: Confronting the Gangs of Port-au-Prince

· Making Borders Irrelevant in Kashmir

· Media, Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding: Mapping the Edges

· Reconciliation Strategies in Iraq

· USIP Contributes to New Stability Ops Doctrine

· Would You Fight Again?: Understanding Liberian Ex-Combatant Reintegration

US Treasury Department

· Terrorist Assets Report

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

· Al-Qaeda and Taliban Sanctions Threatened

· The Future of U.S. Military Aid to Lebanon

Friday's Miscellany 10-03-2008

American Enterprise Institute
• Iran's Revolutionary Guards--A Rogue Outfit?
• Meeting the Challenge: U.S. Policy toward Iranian Nuclear Development

American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)
• Campaign Finance in the United States
• Global Governance and the Role of NGOs in International Peace and Security
• Overcoming the Lethargy: Climate Change, Energy Security, and the Case for a Third Industrial Revolution

Amnesty International
• Congo: Armed Groups and Government Forces Continue to Abuse Women and Children in North Kivu
• Law Used Against Housing Activists in Cambodia

Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)
• Public Health Emergency Preparedness: Six Years of Achievement

Atlantic Council of the United States
• Restoring Georgia's Sovereignty in Abkhazia

BASIC
• NATO Nuclear Sharing: Opportunity for Change?
• The Nuclear Suppliers Group Waiver

Bipartisan Policy Center
• Meeting the Challenge: U.S. Policy Toward Iranian Nuclear Development

Brookings Institution
• Egypt’s Education System: Parents and Students Emerge as a New Force for Reform
• Iraqi Elections and Displacement

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Russia-Georgia Crisis

Center for American Progress
• The Coldest Days of the Cold War

Center for Defense Information
• Could U.S. Missile Defense Policy Restrict Access to ISS?

Center for European Reform
• India's Role in the New World Order

Center for Immigration Studies
• Taking Back the Streets: ICE and Local Law Enforcement Target Immigrant Gangs [this info page has links for the video and backgrounder reports] -- full report

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
• America's Self-Destroying Air Power: Becoming Your Own Peer Threat
• A Healthy Dose of Treaties

Center for the Study of Intelligence
• CIA's Relationship with Congress, 1946-2004

Central Asia-Caucasus Institute [Silk Road Studies]
• In Defense of Greater Central Asia
• Russia’s War in Georgia: Causes and Implications for Georgia and the World

Chatham House
• After the Battle: What the August War will mean for Russia's Domestic Politics
• The August 2008 Conflict: Economic Consequences for Russia
• The Paradoxical Regional Implications of Russian Actions in Georgia
• Piracy in Somalia: Threatening Global Trade, Feeding Local Wars
• Russia and Georgia: Culpabilities and Consequences
• Russia and Europe in the Aftermath of the Georgian Conflict: New Challenges, Old Paradigms
• US-Russian Relations After the Events of August 2008

Command and Control Research Program (CCRP)
• International C2 Journal, 2008, v. 2, no. 1 [Special Issue - " Awareness in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Operations "]

Congress. Committee on Homeland Security
• Compilation of Homeland Security Presidential Directives (HSPD) Updated Through December 31, 2008

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
• CBO's Analysis of Dodd Substitute Amendment for H.R. 1424
• Cost Estimate on Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
• The Cyclically Adjusted and Standardized Budget Measures
• The Treatment of Federal Receipts and Expenditures in the National Income and Product Accounts

Council on Foreign Relations
• The Next Chapter: The United States and Pakistan
• Setting a Constructive Russia Agenda
• Shining Path, Tupac Amaru (Peru, leftists)
• A Surge of Will in Afghanistan
• The U.S. Financial Regulatory System
• The U.S.-India Nuclear Deal

Department of Defense
• Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq [September 2008 report]

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)
• D-2008-119 Construction Contracting Procedures Implemented by the Joint Contracting Command-Iraq/Afghanistan, September 29, 2008
• D-2008-133 Joint Follow On Evaluation of the Equipment Status of Operation Iraqi Freedom Forces, September 20, 2008
• D-2008-135 Requiring Radio Frequency Identification in Contracts for Supplies, September 29, 2008

Department of Homeland Security Inspector General
• Fiscal Year 2009 Annual Performance Plan

Department of Justice Attorney General
• The Attorney General's Guidelines for Domestic FBI Operations

Director of National Intelligence
• Intelligence Community Directive 503 - Intelligence Community Information Technology Systems Security Risk Management, Certification and Accreditation

Energy Security Leadership Council
• A National Strategy for Energy Security: Recommendations to the Nation on Reducing U.S. Oil Dependence

Foreign Policy in Focus
• The Cost of Boots on the Ground in Iraq

Fort Leavenworth. Combined Arms Center
Military Review, v. 88, no. 8, September-October 2008
• Multi-National Force-Iraq Commander’s Counterinsurgency Guidance by General David H. Petraeus U.S. Army
• The Baby and the Bathwater: Changing Times or Changing Principles? By Colonel John Mark Mattox U.S. Army
• Discipline, Punishment, and Counterinsurgency by Scott Andrew Ewing
• Adaptation: It’s Time for an Army Advisor Command by Dr. John A. Nagl LTC U.S. Army Retired
• Integrating the Advisory Effort in the Army: A Full Spectrum Solution by Major Michael D. Jason U.S. Army
• An Innovative Approach to Blast Injury Recovery by Colonel Karl D. Reed U.S. Army
• In Uncle Sam’s Backyard: China’s Military Influence in Latin America by Loro Horta
• Waging Counterinsurgency in Algeria: A French Point of View by Lieutenant Colonel Philippe Francois French Marine Infantry
• Operation BOA: A Counterfactual History of the Battle for Shah-I-Kot by Colonel Robert D. Hyde USAF, Colonel Mark D. Kelly USAF and Colonel William F. Andrews USAF
• Leadership Success Strategies of U.S. Army Women General Officers by Lieutenant Colonel Yvonne Doll U.S. Army Retired
• Amnesty, Reintegration, and Reconciliation in Rwanda by Major Jeffrey H. Powell U.S. Army
• Winning Battles but Losing Wars: Three Ways Successes in Combat Promote Failures in Peace by Christopher E. Housenick Ph.D.
• A National Security Strategy for the Next Administration by Amitai Etzioni
• Finding the Flow: Shadow Economies, Ethnic Networks, and Counterinsurgency by Captain Robert M. Chamberlain U.S. Army

Freedom House
• Progress Review: Kazakhstan's OSCE Commitments on Democracy and Rule of Law in Light Of Kazakhstan's Upcoming OSCE Chairmanship

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
• Climate Change: Federal Actions Will Greatly Affect the Viability of Carbon Capture and Storage As a Key Mitigation Option. GAO-08-1080.
• Contingency Contracting: DOD, State, and USAID Contracts and Contractor Personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan. GAO-09-19.
• Defense Acquisitions: Sound Business Case Needed to Implement Missile Defense Agency's Targets Program. GAO-08-1113.
• DOD Financial Management: Improvements Are Needed in Antideficiency Act Controls and Investigations. GAO-08-1063.
• Energy Markets: Analysis of More Past Mergers Could Enhance Federal Trade Commission's Efforts to Maintain Competition in the Petroleum Industry. GAO-08-1082.
• Export Promotion: The Export-Import Bank's Financing of Dual-Use Exports. GAO-08-1182R.
• Federal Energy Management: Addressing Challenges through Better Plans and Clarifying the Greenhouse Gas Emission Measure Will Help Meet Long-term Goals for Buildings. GAO-08-977.
• Financial Management: Persistent Financial Management Systems Issues Remain for Many CFO Act Agencies. GAO-08-1018.
• Homeland Security: DHS Risk-Based Grant Methodology Is Reasonable, But Current Version's Measure of Vulnerability is Limited. GAO-08-852, June 27. [File revised to reflect changes in note on page 10 and graphic on page 18.]
• Influenza Pandemic: HHS Needs to Continue Its Actions and Finalize Guidance for Pharmaceutical Interventions. GAO-08-671.
• Information Security: Actions Needed to Better Protect Los Alamos National Laboratory's Unclassified Computer Network. GAO-08-1001.
• NASA: Agency Faces Challenges Defining Scope and Costs of Space Shuttle Transition and Retirement. GAO-08-109.
• Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan and Iraq. GAO-09-86R.
• Space Acquisitions: DOD's Goals for Resolving Space Based Infrared System Software Problems Are Ambitious. GAO-08-1073.
• Space Acquisitions: Uncertainties in the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle Program Pose Management and Oversight Challenges. GAO-08-1039.
• U.S. Asylum System: Agencies Have Taken Actions to Help Ensure Quality in the Asylum Adjudication Process, but Challenges Remain. GAO-08-935.
• U.S. Asylum System: Significant Variation Existed in Asylum Outcomes across Immigration Courts and Judges. GAO-08-940.

Heritage Foundation
• Chinese Investment (Mostly) Welcome
• Congress Should Support the U.S. Africa Command
• The Defense Trade Cooperation Treaties with the United Kingdom and Australia Advance the American Interest
• Mbeki's Ouster Opens the Door for Enhanced U.S.–South Africa Cooperation
• Taiwan’s Defense Hobbled by U.S. Arms "Freeze"

Hudson Institute
• How to Strengthen Democracy in Latin America

Human Rights Watch
• "Why Am I Still Here?": The 2007 Horn of Africa Renditions and the Fate of Those Still Missing

Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis
• Iran with Nuclear Weapons: Anticipating the Consequences for U.S. Policy

Joint Chiefs of Staff
• Joint Publication 3-11: Operations in Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) Environments

International Crisis Group
• CrisisWatch N°62, 1 October 2008

International Relations and Security Network
• Al-Qaida's Bosnian War Move
• International CIIP Handbook 2008/2009 (An Inventory of 25 National and 7 International Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Policies)
• Iraq's Poll Miasma
• Kadyrov's Last Rival Dead

Lexington Institute
• Missile Defense: The World Has Changed
• Why The Navy Wants To Rethink Its Next Destroyer

Long War Journal
• Iraqi Security Forces Order of Battle: October 2008 update
• Pakistan's Taliban Warlord: A Profile of Baitullah Mehsud
• US Attacks Inside Pakistan and Incidents Along the Border in 2008

National Academies Press
• Department of Homeland Security Bioterrorism Risk Assessment: A Call For Change
• Global Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events: Understanding the Contributions to Infectious Disease Emergence: Workshop Summary


National Defense University (NDU)
Joint Force Quarterly (JFQ) no. 51, 4th Quarter 2008
• Confronting Biological Threats to the Homeland by Michael Chertoff
• DOD and the Nuclear Mission by Clark A. Murdock
• The New Threat of Unconventional Warfare by Albert J. Mauroni
• Nuclear First Use: Prudence or Peril? by Stephen J. Cimbala
• Combating WMD Collaboratively by Paul I. Bernstein
• Missile Defense and NATO Security by Peppino A. DeBiaso
• Preparedness for a CBRNE Event by Zygmunt F. Dembek
• Decontamination Operations in a Mass Casualty Scenario by Michael L. Snyder and Thomas J. Sobieski
• Confronting Biological Threats to the Homeland by Michael Chertoff
• DOD and the Nuclear Mission by Clark A. Murdock
• The New Threat of Unconventional Warfare by Albert J. Mauroni
• Nuclear First Use: Prudence or Peril? by Stephen J. Cimbala
• Combating WMD Collaboratively by Paul I. Bernstein
• Missile Defense and NATO Security by Peppino A. DeBiaso
• Preparedness for a CBRNE Event by Zygmunt F. Dembek
• Decontamination Operations in a Mass Casualty Scenario by Michael L. Snyder and Thomas J. Sobieski
• U.S. Africa Command and the Principle of Active Security by William E. Ward and Thomas P. Galvin
• The Road to a New Unified Command by Robert T. Moeller and Mary C. Yates
• USAFRICOM: The Militarization of U.S. Foreign Policy? by Dennis R.J. Penn
• Legal Impediments to USAFRICOM Operationalization by Jeffrey S. Palmer
• USJFCOM Commander’s Guidance for Effects-based Operations by James N. Mattis IV
• Whatever Happened to the “War on Drugs”? by James G. Stavridis
• Developing a Unit Language Capability for War by Harry D. Tunnell IV
• The Global Positioning System: A Case Study in the Challenges of Transformation by Matthew E. Skeen
• Carpe DIEM: Seizing Strategic Opportunity in the Arctic by Anthony L. Russell
• The Russian Chechen Wars: Three Lessons for U.S. Defense Planners by Daniel T. Canfield
• Al Qaeda: Refining a Failing Strategy by Martin J. Hart
• Global Networks: The Need for a Strategic Targeting Organization by Robert M. Brassaw
• Command and Control of Military Forces in the Homeland by Jeffrey W. Burkett
• Terrorist Violence in the Next Millennium: New Legal Solutions for an Old Nemesis by James P. Terry
• Information-driven Interagency Operations in Afghanistan by Shannon O’Harren, Trude V.V. King, Tushar Suthar, and Kenneth D. Cockrell
• Revisiting the Seventies: The Third World Comes of Age by Thomas C. Reed and Danny B. Stillman


Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE)
• The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area: Background Paper 2008
• Final Report on Sustainable Policies for Roma and Sinti Integration
• Implementation of the Action Plan on Improving the Situation of Roma and Sinti Within the OSCE Area

Pew Hispanic Center
• Sharp Decline in Income for Non-Citizen Immigrant Households, 2006-2007
• Trends in Unauthorized Immigration: Undocumented Inflow Now Trails Legal Inflow

Project on National Security Reform (PNSR)
• Project on National Security Reform: Case Studies Volume I

Proteus [Army War College]
• A Proof of Concept for Collecting and Analyzing Open Source Information in Universities for the Purpose of Identifying Over-The-Horizon Threats to Selected Items on the Military Critical Technologies List, by Dr. William G. Perry, Volume 2, Issue 3, Oct. 2008.
• Tech 2035: Future Technology, Future Power in Asia, and Future Intelligence Challenges, by Dr. Marvin J. Cetron and Owen Davies, Volume 2, Issue 2, Sep. 2008.

RAND
• Al Qaeda and Its Affiliates: A Global Tribe Waging Segmental Warfare
• The Effect of Personnel Stability on Organizational Performance: Do Battalions with Stable Command Groups Achieve Higher Training Proficiency at the National Training Center?
• Integrating Instruments of Power and Influence: Lessons Learned and Best Practices
• Options for Improving the Military Child Care System

Reform Institute
• Building a Resilient Nation: Enhancing Security, Ensuring a Strong Economy

Stanley Foundation
• Improving US National Security: Options for Strengthening US Foreign Operations
• International Implications for and Levers on US Nuclear Weapons Policy
• New Power Dynamics in Southeast Asia

Strategic Studies Institute
• Dueling Natures
• Stability Operations and State Building: Continuities and Contingencies

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• The Importance of Iraq's Provincial Elections
• Rethinking the Two-State Solution
• Stability in Lebanon Threatened, Again

Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control
• Tracking the World's Efforts to Punish Iranian Proliferators

REPORT - Iranian Nuclear Development

An independent task force, chaired by former Senators Daniel Coats and Charles Robb and sponsored by the Bipartisan Policy Center recently released their report entitled "Meeting the Challenge: U.S. Policy Toward Iranian Nuclear Development."

This 94 page report is available directly from http://www.bipartisanpolicy.org/ht/a/GetDocumentAction/i/8448

or from their main website at http://www.bipartisanpolicy.org/