Advisory Panel on Department of Defense Capabilities for Support of Civil Authorities After Certain Incidents
• Before Disaster Strikes: Imperatives for Enhancing Defense Support of Civil Authorities
Afghanistan Analysts Network
• Who Controls the Vote? Afghanistan’s Evolving Elections
Air University
• Air and Space Power Journal, Fall 2010, v. 24, no. 3
o Lorenz on Leadership: Part 3
o Reenabling Air Force Command and Control for Twenty-first-Century Partnerships
o Desert Shield and Desert Storm: 20 Years in Retrospect
o Seeing the Whole Elephant
o Femme Fatale 2010
o Civilian Language Education in America: How the Air Force and Academia Can Thrive Together
o Achieving a Credible Nuclear Defense
o It’s Time to Fight Back: “Operationalizing” Network Defense
o Satellites and Remotely Piloted Aircraft: Two Remotely Operated Ships Passing in the Fight
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
• Group of Governors and Heads of Supervision Statement on Capital Standards
• Missed Opportunities in the Dodd-Frank Act
• The Monumental Task Assigned to the Fed
• Proxy Access and the Market for Corporate Control
• Regulation of Broker-Dealers and the Dodd-Frank Act
American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)
• German Family Policy and the Idea of “Wahlfreiheit”
• German Views on the Ninth Anniversary of 9/11
• Promoting Energy Innovation and Investment Through Transatlantic Transfer of Community Energy Politics
American Security Project
• Consensus for American Security
Amnesty International
• New Order, Same Abuses—Unlawful Detentions and Torture in Iraq
• Senegal: Land of Impunity
Asian Development Bank Institute
• Fiscal Policy Issues for India after the Global Financial Crisis (2008–2010)
Association of the United States Army (AUSA)
• Consequence Management: Steps in the Right Direction?
Brookings Institution
• The Challenge of a Nuclear North Korea: Dark Clouds, Only One Silver Lining
• Combating Climate Change through Quality Education
• The Determinants of Aid Volatility
• The Federal Budget Outlook
• Making Development Aid More Effective
• New Geopolitics and Rediscovery of the US-Japan Alliance: Reshaping “Northeast Asia” Beyond the Border
• Obama’s Infrastructure Agenda: Understanding the Pillars
• Pakistan’s Future: The Bellagio Papers
• Reflections on the Evolution of the China Field in Political Science
• States Of Conflict: An Update on Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan
• Territorial Disputes and Seabed Petroleum Exploitation: Some Options for the East China Sea
• Tracking Economic Recession and Recovery in America’s 100 Largest Metropolitan Areas
Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace
• Cambodia—Maritime Security Challenges and Priorities
• Security Challenges and Implications for Defense Policy
Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)
• Mexico: Current and Future Political, Economic and Security Trends
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Pakistan’s Roller-Coaster Economy: Tax Evasion Stifles Growth
• Three Mirages and Two Markets: Understanding the South Caucasus
CATO Institute
• Short Sales Bans: Shooting the Messenger?
Center for a New American Security (CNAS)
• Eye to the Future: Refocusing State Department Policy Planning
• Planning Diplomacy and Development: Force Planning Applications for the State Department and USAID
• Rebuilding Diplomacy: A Survey of Past Calls for State Department Transformation
Center for Security Policy
• Shariah: The Threat to America: An Exercise in Competitive Analysis - Report of Team 'B' 11
Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)
• Sustaining America’s Strategic Advantage in Long-Range Strike
o Related slides
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
• Afghanistan: A Progress Report
• Part I – Shaping the Campaign
• Part II – Meeting the Challenges of 2010
• Part III – Implementing the New Strategy
• Afghanistan’s National Assembly Elections
• Central Asia's Pipelines
• The Military Balance in Asia, 1990-2010: A Quantitative Analysis
• U.S.-Saudi Security Cooperation and the Impact of U.S. Arms Sales
Center for Technology and National Security Policy (CTNSP)
• Assessing the Health of Army Laboratories: Funding for Basic Research and Laboratory Capital Equipment
• Improving the Army's Next Effort in Technology Forecasting
• A Primer on Alternative Transportation Fuels
Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
• Obama's War: Prospects for the Conflict in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Combined Arms Center
• The Colloquium, September 2010, v. 3, no. 2
o The Path to Victory: Counterinsurgency Operations in Iraq
• Military Review, September-October 2010, v. 90, no. 5
o The Top Seven Myths of U.S. Defense Policy Toward the Americas
o Disarming the Key Leader Engagement
o Thoughts on the Battle for the Mind: IO and COIN in the Pashtun Belt
o National Will from a Threat Perspective
o Heuristics and Biases in Military Decision Making
o Shared Situational Understanding: Fundamental Principles and Iconoclastic Observations
o The Militarization of Gazprom
o The Allure of Quick Victory: Lessons from Peru’s Fight against Sendero Luminoso
o Talking Grand Strategy
o A Practical Approach to Cultural Insight
o Now That We’re Leaving Iraq, What Did We Learn?
o The Challenge of Leadership in the Interagency Environment
Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee
• Fulfilling the Promise of Peace: Human Rights, Peace and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland and Bosnia
Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee
• The Evolving Nature of Terrorism - Nine Years after the 9/11 Attacks
Congress. House. Judiciary Committee
• Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking
Congress. House. Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
• Pilot Flight and Duty Time Rule
Congress. Senate. Armed Services Committee
• Current Security Situation on the Korean Peninsula
Congress. Senate. Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee
• The Integration of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) into the National Airspace System (NAS): Fulfilling Imminent Operational and Training Requirements
• Oversight of MWAA, Reagan Washington National Airport and the Perimeter Rule
Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee
• Banking on Reform: Capital Increase Proposals from the Multilateral Development Banks
Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs
• Nuclear Terrorism: Strengthening Our Domestic Defenses, Part II
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
• Fiscal Policy Choices in Uncertain Times
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
• Afghanistan's Unpromising Elections
• Rising Midterm Economic Pressures
Danish Institute for International Security (DIIS)
• ‘Old’ versus ‘New’ Europe: The 2002-08 Straitjacket of European Geopolitics
Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)
• Interagency Combating WMD Database of Responsibilities, Authorities, and Capabilities (INDRAC) website
Department of Defense
• Better Buying Power: Guidance for Obtaining Greater Efficiency and Productivity in Defense Spending
• Guidance Roadmap
• DoD Instruction 2200.01, Combating Trafficking in Persons (CTIP), September 15, 2010
• DoD Instruction 3115.12, Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), August 24, 2010
• Directive-Type Memorandum DTM-08-011, Intelligence Oversight Policy Guidance, March 26, 2008, Incorporating Change 1, September 8, 2010
• Directive-Type Memorandum (DTM) 08-021, DoD Use of the Civil Search and Rescue Satellite-aided Tracking (SARSAT) System for Support to Personnel Recovery, October 17, 2008 - Incorporating Change 1, September 16, 2010
• Directive-Type Memorandum (DTM) 08-027, Security of Unclassified DoD Information on Non-DoD Information Systems, July 31, 2009 - Incorporating Change 1, September 16, 2010
• Directive-Type Memorandum DTM-08-052, DoD Guidance for Reporting Questionable Intelligence Activities and Significant or Highly Sensitive Matters, June 17, 2009 - Incorporating Change 1, September 10, 2010
Department of Homeland Security Inspector General
• OIG-10-107 - Recommendations to Improve the Coast Guard’s System for Adjudicating Suspension and Revocation Matters
• OIG-10-114 - Federal Emergency Management Agency Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center Tenant Satisfaction Survey)
Department of State
• Consular Notification and Access
• The Consular Notification and Access Manual
• Update: U.S. Response to Pakistan's Flooding Disaster
Department of the Air Force
• 2010 Combat Air Force Strategic Plan
Energy Information Administration (EIA)
• Country Analysis Brief: United Kingdom
EU Institute for Security Studies
• Human Rights Challenges in EU Civilian Crisis Management: The Cases of EUPOL and EUJUST LEX
• Humanitarian Action in Pakistan: A Case for EU Political Involvement
• State and Society: The Democratic Challenge
European Policy Centre
• Nagorno-Karabakh – A Ticking Time Bomb
• EU Strategic Partnerships: Are They Worth the Name?
Foreign Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• Crime in the United States, 2009
Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
• The Constitutional History of U.S. Foreign Policy: 222 Years of Tension in the Twilight Zone
• Defending U.S. Maritime Commerce In Peacetime From 1794 To Today
• Mexico: The Bicentennial and Beyond
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
• Combating Nuclear Smuggling: Inadequate Communication and Oversight Hampered DHS Efforts to Develop an Advanced Radiography System to Detect Nuclear Materials, GAO-10-1041T [testimony]
• Defense Health Care: Status of Efforts to Address Lack of Compliance with Personality Disorder Separation Requirements, GAO-10-1013T [testimony]
• Defense Planning: DOD Needs to Review the Costs and Benefits of Basing Alternatives for Army Forces in Europe, GAO-10-745R
• Financial Management Systems: Experience with Prior Migration and Modernization Efforts Provides Lessons Learned for New Approach, GAO-10-808
• Information Security: Progress Made on Harmonizing Policies and Guidance for National Security and Non-National Security Systems, GAO-10-916
• Iraqi-U.S. Cost-Sharing: Iraq Has a Cumulative Budget Surplus, Offering the Potential for Further Cost-Sharing, GAO-10-304
• Joint Strike Fighter: Assessment of DOD's Funding Projection for the F136 Alternate Engine, GAO-10-1020R
• Military Training: DOD Continues to Improve Its Report on the Sustainability of Training Ranges, GAO-10-977R
• Nuclear Waste: Actions Needed to Address Persistent Concerns with Efforts to Close Underground Radioactive Waste Tanks at DOE's Savannah River Site, GAO-10-816
• Perchlorate: Occurrence Is Widespread but at Varying Levels; Federal Agencies Have Taken Some Actions to Respond to and Lessen Releases, GAO-10-769
• Veterans' Benefits: Training for Experienced Disability Claims Processors, GAO-10-1029T [testimony]
• Whistleblower Protection: Sustained Management Attention Needed to Address Long-standing Program Weaknesses, GAO-10-722
Headquarters, International Security Assistance Force
• COMISAF's Counterinsurgency (COIN) Contracting Guidance [8 Sept 2010]
Heritage Foundation
• Adding DREAM Act to Defense Bill Is Another Form of Amnesty
• Advice and Consent? The Senate Should START with Advice
• China’s Indian Provocations Part of Broader Trend
• Don’t Ask, I’ll Just Tell You What the Law Should Be: Log Cabin Republicans v. United States
• Do Not Undermine the US-European Military Relationship
• Federal Pay Still Inflated After Accounting for Skills
• Implementing Obamacare: A New Exercise in Old-Fashioned Central Planning
• Legalizing Marijuana: Why Citizens Should Just Say No
• Nine Years Since 9/11: When Will Congress Wake Up on Homeland Security?
• Obama Tax Hikes: McConnell-Grassley Tax Hike Prevention Act Would Help Taxpayers and Economy
• Russia’s Proposed New European Security Treaty: A Non-Starter for the U.S. and Europe
• Targeting the Yuan: A Feel-Good but Futile Response
• Turkey’s Referendum: A Looming Challenge to U.S. Interests?
• Twelve Flaws of New START That Will Be Difficult to Fix
Human Rights Watch
• Always on the Run: The Vicious Cycle of Displacement in Eastern Congo
• Without Protection: How the Lebanese Justice System Fails Migrant Domestic Workers
Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA)
• Thinking about Pakistan's Nuclear Security in Peacetime, Crisis and War
Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)
• Civil Separated Plutonium in the INFCIRC/549 States – Taking Stock
• Global Fissile Material Stock Charts
• Guidelines for the Management of Plutonium (INFCIRC/549): Background and Declarations
Institute for Security Studies (ISS)
• Monograph 172: The International Criminal Court that Africa Wants
• ISS Paper 215: Eco-cop Environmental Policing in Eastern Africa
• ISS paper 216: Natural Resources Conflict Management Processes and Strategies in Africa
Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR)
• Disgruntled Afghans Throw Out Taleban
International Crisis Group
• Pakistan: The Worsening IDP Crisis
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• Adjustment under a Currency Peg: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania during the Global Financial Crisis 2008-09
• Bank Capital and Uncertainty
• Commodity Windfalls, Polarization, and Net Foreign Assets: Panel Data Evidence on the Voracity Effect
• Cyprus: Selected Issues
• Indonesia: Financial System Stability Assessment
• Indonesia: Selected Issues
• Monetary Transmission of Global Imbalances in Asian Countries
International Peace Institute (IPI)
• The United Nations Security Council and Civil War: First Insights from a New Dataset
International Relations and Security Network
• Assessing the Iraq Surge
• BP Returns To Libya Decades After Gaddafi’s Revolution
• Burma Finds Protective Brother in China
• China’s Rise, the US, and Asia’s Angst
• A Choice of 9/11s
• Georgia Pressing US to OK Defense Purchases
• 'Ground Zero' Imam Says Plans Misunderstood
• Political Is Personal in Peace Process
• Reshaping Bank Behavior
• Serbia: Trouble in Sandzak
• Ugandans Divided Over Somalia Strategy
• Uncertainty Remains Over Black Sea Fleet
• Washington Turf Wars
International Security Assistance Force, Afghanistan
• COMISAF's Counterinsurgency (COIN) Contracting Guidance
Japan Ministry of Defense
• Defense of Japan 2010 [defense white paper]
Lexington Institute
• Radical Multiculturalism a Growing Problem in Public Schools
National Democratic Institute (NDI)
• Afghanistan Elections Update
National Security Archive
• Former Guatemalan Soldier Sentenced to Ten Years for Lying About Role in Dos Erres Massacre
• "No-Go" Tribal Areas Became Basis for Afghan Insurgency Documents Show
Nautilus Institute
• The 2009 Australian Defence White Paper: Analysis And Alternatives
New American Foundation
• The Battle For Pakistan: Militancy and Conflict in Dir
o Map of Dir
• The Battle For Pakistan: Militancy and Conflict in the Frontier Regions
o Map of Frontier Regions
• The Battle For Afghanistan: Militancy and Conflict in Helmand
o Map of Helmand
• The Battle For Pakistan: Militancy and Conflict in Orakzai
o Map of Orakzai
• The Battle For Afghanistan: Militancy and Conflict in Zabul and Uruzgan
Office of The Secretary of Defense/Joint Staff Freedom of Information Reading Rooms
• Joint Staff/Joint Operations: Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) History Brief
• Congressional Correspondence: Senator Barack Obama, DoD correspondence sent, 2005-2008
• Congressional Correspondence: Senator Barack Obama correspondence to DoD, 2005-2008
Palm Center
• Don’t Ask Don't Tell Scorecard
Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
• Muslim Networks and Movements in Western Europe
Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
• Americans Spending More Time Following the News
• Public Focused on Tensions over Islam: Partisans Divide over Media Coverage of Obama
Pew Research Center's Project for Excellent in Journalism
• Koran and Cultural Center Put Islam in the News
Project on Government Oversight (POGO)
• U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex: How the Country Can Profit and Become More Secure by Getting Rid of Its Surplus Weapons-Grade Uranium
RAND
• Moving Toward a Sustainable U.S. Defense Budget: Speech Given June 15, 2010, at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Real Instituto Elcano
• Africa, AFRICOM and the Path to Stability
Security Council Report
• Nepal
• UN Security Council Elections 2010
Security Service MI5
• Address at the Worshipful Company of Security Professionals by the Director General of the Security Service, Jonathan Evans
Small Business Administration (SBA)
• Global Entrepreneurship and the United States
Small Wars Journal
• Comparisons in Nation Building: Korea & Iraq
• Drone Attacks and Just War Theory
• Fighting for a Narrative: A Campaign Assessment of the US-led Coalition’s Psychological and Information Operations in Afghanistan
• Plan Mexico? Towards an Integrated Approach in the War on Drugs
• A Remembrance of 9/11
• When Relief Aid Becomes Counterproductive: A Study of Intervention in the Congo (2007-2008)
Space Security.org
• Space Security 2010
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)
• Lessons Learned in Preparing and Conducting Elections in Afghanistan
Yousuf Nazar - State of Pakistan
• Pakistan's Way Forward: Disengagement, Realignment, and Empowerment
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
• The Limitations of European Union Reports on Arms Exports: The Case of Central Asia
Truman Project
• Afghanistan 101
UK House of Commons Defence Committee
• Strategic Defence and Security Review
• The Strategic Defence and Security Review - Memoranda
US Institute of Peace (USIP)
• Afghanistan: Conditions-Based Redeployment
• Advancing New Media Research
• Cautious Optimism for Peace in Colombia
• Civil Society in Darfur: The Missing Peace
• Finding Common Ground: Kirkuk as a Special Governorate (Arabic edition)
• Fulfilling the Promise of Peace: Human Rights, Peace and Reconciliation in Bosnia
• The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Kosovo
• Internal Displacement and Local Peacebuilding in Kenya: Challenges and Innovations
• Navigating Negotiations in Afghanistan
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Hamas and the Peace Process: New Talks Highlight Internal Tensions
• Three Temptations on the Road to Mideast Peace
• The Red Line: How to Assess Progress in U.S. Iran Policy
• What Arabs Really Think About Iran
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
• U.S. Firearms Trafficking to Mexico: New Data and Insights Illuminate Key Trends and Challenges
World Bank
• The Economic Consequences of “Brain Drain” of the Best and Brightest: Microeconomic Evidence from Five Countries
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Monday, September 13, 2010
Friday's Miscellany 09-10-2010
Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN)
• Campaign Trail 8: A multipolar election in the Afghan West 1
• Campaign Trail 8: A multipolar election in the Afghan West 2
• Who Controls the Vote? Afghanistan's Evolving Elections
Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)
• Afghan Election, 2010: Alternative Narratives
• Parliamentarians and Local Politics in Afghanistan: Elections and Instability II
• The Wolesi Jirga in Flux, 2010: Elections and Instability I
Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• Nonstate Policing: Expanding the Scope for Tackling Africa's Urban Violence
Amnesty International
• Cambodia: Ongoing Serious Human Rights Violations Must Be Addressed
• United Kingdom: Submission for the Review of Counter-terrorism and Security Powers
Army War College
• Parameters, Summer 2010, v. 40, no. 2
o War—Continuity in Change, and Change in Continuity
o An Appraisal of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Strategy to Counter Terrorism
o Time for a Strategic and Intellectual Pause in Afghanistan
o Positive Perceptions to Sustain the US-Pakistan Relationships
o A Counter-WMD Strategy for the Future
o Soldiers and Politics: Exposing Some Myths
o The North Caucasus: Russian Roulette on Europe's Borders
o Google Confronts China’s “Three Warfares”
Baker Institute for Public Policy
• Economics of Pricing the Cost of Carbon Dioxide Restrictions in the Production of Electricity
• Energy Market Consequences of an Emerging U.S. Carbon Management Policy: Lithium in Bolivia: Can Resource Nationalism Deliver for Bolivians and the World?
Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies
• The GCC States and the Security Challenges of the Twenty-First Century
Bipartisan Policy Center
• Assessing the Terrorist Threat: A Report of the Bipartisan Policy Center's National Security Preparedness Group
BP [British Petroleum]
• Deepwater Horizon Accident Investigation Report [report, appendices, summary and video]
Brookings
• Afghanistan Index: Tracking Progress and Security in Post-9/11 Afghanistan [updated August 31, 2010 and Archives]
• Attention: Deficit
• Iraq Index: Tracking Reconstruction and Security in Post-Saddam Iraq [updated September 1, 2010 and archives]
CATO Institute
• The Miscellaneous Tariff Bill: A Blueprint for Future Trade Expansion
Center for a New American Security (CNAS)
• South Asia’s Geography of Conflict
Center for Global Development
• Beyond Short-Term Thinking: How to Spend Billions Well in Pakistan, for Them and for Us
Center for Security Policy
• All Us ‘Citizens of the World’
• Oppose Shariah, Don’t Burn the Quran
Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
• Five Years After Katrina
• Freeman Report: Cross-Strait Prospects – ECFA and Beyond
• How America Corrupted Afghanistan: Time to Look in the Mirror
Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
• The Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA): Towards a New Era for Caribbean Trade
Centre for Social Cohesion (CSC)
• Control Orders: Strengthening National Security
Charities Aid Foundation
• World Giving Index
Chatham House
• BBC Recording: Has the Taliban Won the War in Afghanistan?
• Livestock Trade in the Djibouti, Somali and Ethiopian Borderlands
• Livestock Trade in the Kenyan, Somali and Ethiopian Borderlands
• A Macro-Economic Assessment of UK Security and Defence Policy Options
Congress. Senate. Senator Chuck Grassley
• Oversight Review of Audit Reporting by the Department of Defense, Office of Inspector General
• Grassley to Gates letter
Department of Defense
• Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq [June 2010]
• Medal of Honor: Heroes of Iraq and Afghanistan
• Update: Interaction with OSD/PA on Release of Official Information [memo Sept 2, 2010]
Department of State
• Fact Sheets: Devastating Floods in Pakistan: U.S. Secretary of State Calls for Worldwide Help
• Foreign Relations of the United States [FRUS] - Release of Foreign Relations, 1969-1976, Volume VII, Vietnam, July 1970-January 1972
• United States Foreign Policy [remarks by Sec Clinton]
Department of Homeland Security Inspector General
• OIG-10-111 - DHS Needs to Improve the Security Posture of Its Cybersecurity Program Systems
• OIG-10-110 - Information Technology Management Letter for the FY 2009 DHS Integrated Audit (Redacted)
Ethics Resource Center
• Ethics and Employee Engagement
German Institute for Economic Research
• The Business of Piracy in Somalia
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
• Contractor Integrity: Stronger Safeguards Needed for Contractor Access to Sensitive Information. GAO-10-693
• Hybrid Warfare, GAO-10-1036R
• University Research: Policies for the Reimbursement of Indirect Costs Need to Be Updated, GAO-10-937
Heritage Foundation
• China’s Indian Provocations Part of Broader Trend
• Defining the Obama Doctrine, Its Pitfalls, and How to Avoid Them
• Do Not Undermine the U.S.–European Military Relationship
• Don’t Ask, I’ll Just Tell You What the Law Should Be: Log Cabin Republicans v. United States
• India: Fast Growth Does Not Mean a Strong Economy
• The New Face of the Union Movement: Government Employees
• Nine Years Since 9/11: When Will Congress Wake Up on Homeland Security?
• Obama Tax Hikes Defended by Myths and Straw Man Arguments: Summary
• Targeting the Yuan: A Feel-Good but Futile Response
Human Rights Watch
• Dignity on Trial: India’s Need for Sound Standards for Conducting and Interpreting Forensic Examinations of Rape Survivors
• Needless Pain: Government Failure to Provide Palliative Care for Children in Kenya
• A Strange Case: Violations of Workers’ Freedom of Association in the United States by European Multinational Corporations
Immigration Policy Center
• Back to the Border; A Historical Comparison of U.S. Border Politics
Institute of Defence Studies & Analyses
• As Dragon Flexes Muscle, the Rising Sun Goes Defensive
• India-Russia Strategic Partnership: Common Perspectives
• India and New Zealand: Emerging Challenges
• Sky’s No Limit: Space-Based Solar Power, the Next Major Step in the Indo-US Strategic Partnership?
• Journal of Defence Studies, 2010, v. 4, no. 2
o Left-Wing Extremism (LWE) in India
o India, China and the United States: The Triangle That Isn’t
o Naxalite Movement in India: The State's Response
o Integrated Network Electronic Warfare: China's New Concept of Information Warfare
o India's Defence Budget 2010-11: An Analysis
o Management of Medical Stores in Indian Armed Forces
o The Evolution of African Armies: A Perspective in 2010
o North Korea's Nuclear Issue: Security Implications for Asia
o Reconstitution of the Bangladesh Rifles
o India's Response Options to Pakistani Nuclear First Use
o Indian Aerospace Power
o China Builds Dam on Indus near Ladakh
Institute for Democracy in South Africa
• What South Africa Does the World Need?
Institute of Development Studies
• Security Systems in Francophone Africa
Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)
• IAEA Iran Safeguards Report: Iran Degrading Safeguards Effectiveness; Low Enriched Uranium Production Holds Steady
Institute for Security Studies
• The Burundi Peace Process: From Civil War to Conditional Peace
• The Chair of the African Union – What Prospect for Institutionalization?
Institute for the Study of War
• Afghanistan - Order of Battle [updated September 2010]
• Iraq - Order of Battle [updated September 2010]
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
• Ache/Indonesia: IDPs and Returnees Still Face Significant Recovery and Reintegration Needs
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
• Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and Relevant Provisions of Security Council Resolutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran
• Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Syrian Arab Republic
• Israeli Nuclear Capabilities
International Crisis Group
• Azerbaijan: Vulnerable Stability
• Illicit arms in Indonesia
• Managing Land Conflict in Timor-Leste
• Squaring the Circle: Palestinian Security Reform under Occupation
• Turkey’s Crises over Israel and Iran
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• The End of an Era? The Medium- and Long-term Effects of the Global Crisis on Growth in Low-Income Countries
• Review of the Fund's Mandate - Follow-Up on Modernizing Surveillance
• To Starve or not to Starve the Beast?
• Why Does Bad News Increase Volatility and Decrease Leverage?
International Relations and Security Network
• All Eyes on Red Sea Gas
• America in Iraq: Power, Hubris, Change
• Are Tajikistan's Security Services Breaking Down?
• Copper Tells the Story
• Moldova's Referendum Appears To Fail
• Moscow, Baku Cinch Gas Export Deal
• Tajiks Turn to Sharia Law
• The Unsettling Resettlement of Bhutan’s Refugees
• What the Asian Debate about US Hegemony Tells Us
International Peace Institute (IPI)
• The United Nations Security Council and Civil War: First Insights From a New Dataset
Iran Watch
• Iran's Nuclear Timetable [updated September 9, 2010]
• Tracking the World's Efforts to Punish Iranian Proliferators [updated August 13, 2010]
Jamestown Foundation
• China Brief, September 10, 2010, v. 10, no. 18
o Premier Wen's "Southern Tour": Ideological Rifts in the CCP?
o China’s Evolving Anti-Access Approach: “Where’s the Nearest (U.S.) Carrier?”
o China’s Emerging Debate on Military Transparency
o Ryukyu Chain in China’s Island Strategy
• Terrorism Monitor, September 9, 2010, v. 8, no. 34
o Al-Qaeda's Sa'id al-Shihri Seeks to Revolutionize the Saudi Military
o Floods Wash Out Counterterrorist Operations in North Waziristan
o Hukm al-Tatarrus: al-Qaeda's Justification for Killing Muslim Civilians
Migration Policy Institute
• The Demographics Impacts of Repealing Birthright Citizenship
National Academies Press
• Assessing the Effects of the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill on Human Health: A Summary of the June 2010 Workshop
National Science Foundation
• Proposed Federal R&D Funding for FY 2011 Dips to $143 Billion, with Cuts in National Defense R&D
OpenTheGovernment.org
• 2010 SecrecyReport Card htt
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
• The Consequences of Banking Crises for Public Debt
Peterson Institute for International Economics
• Not All Financial Regulation Is Global
Pew Global Attitudes Project
• Turks Downbeat About Their Institutions: Even Military Less Well-Regarded
Polytechnic Institute of NYU
• Why Did the Crisis of 2008 Happen?
Portfolio.com
• A Stress Test for America
Project on Defense Alternatives
• An Undisciplined Defense: Understanding the $2 Trillion Surge in US Defense Spending
Reporters Without Borders
• The Iraq War—A Heavy Death Toll for the Media
Small Wars Journal
• Approaching Doctrinal Training the Army Way
• The Art of “Campaigning” to Inform and Influence
• Department of Defense Special Branch: An Organizational Proposal for Counter-threat Operations in Low Intensity Conflicts
• Design and the Prospects for Deviant Leadership
• Hezbollah in the Tri-Border Area of South America
• Khastan Tawanestan! – “We Can, We Will!”
• Nine Years After 9/11: Assessing the War on Terror
• Rebuilding the Force: Unconventional Advisory Forces in Counterinsurgency
• Teaching New Dogs Old Tricks: Can the Hamlet Evaluation System Inform the Search for Metrics in Afghanistan?
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
• Controlling Conflict Resources in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• New Foreign Policy Actors in China
Strategic Studies Institute
• An Army Transformed: The U.S. Army's Post-Vietnam Recovery and the Dynamics of Change in Military Organizations
• Somalia: Line in the Sand--Identification of MYM Vulnerabilities
Transportation Research Board
• Cooperative Research Programs Security Research Status Report
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
• Ruling on "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
US Institute of Peace (USIP)
• Averting Hell on Earth: Religion and the Prevention of Genocide • Iran's Subsidies Conundrum
• On the Issues: What if Kabul Bank Fails?
• Many Shuras Do Not a Government Make: International Community Engagement with Local Councils in Afghanistan
• Pakistan: Progress in Peacebuilding
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Combating Export Violations to Iran: The Role of ICE Homeland Security Investigations
• Beyond the Washington Summit: Challenges Facing Israeli-Palestinian Talks
• The Red Line: How to Assess Progress in U.S. Iran Policy
• Campaign Trail 8: A multipolar election in the Afghan West 1
• Campaign Trail 8: A multipolar election in the Afghan West 2
• Who Controls the Vote? Afghanistan's Evolving Elections
Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)
• Afghan Election, 2010: Alternative Narratives
• Parliamentarians and Local Politics in Afghanistan: Elections and Instability II
• The Wolesi Jirga in Flux, 2010: Elections and Instability I
Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• Nonstate Policing: Expanding the Scope for Tackling Africa's Urban Violence
Amnesty International
• Cambodia: Ongoing Serious Human Rights Violations Must Be Addressed
• United Kingdom: Submission for the Review of Counter-terrorism and Security Powers
Army War College
• Parameters, Summer 2010, v. 40, no. 2
o War—Continuity in Change, and Change in Continuity
o An Appraisal of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Strategy to Counter Terrorism
o Time for a Strategic and Intellectual Pause in Afghanistan
o Positive Perceptions to Sustain the US-Pakistan Relationships
o A Counter-WMD Strategy for the Future
o Soldiers and Politics: Exposing Some Myths
o The North Caucasus: Russian Roulette on Europe's Borders
o Google Confronts China’s “Three Warfares”
Baker Institute for Public Policy
• Economics of Pricing the Cost of Carbon Dioxide Restrictions in the Production of Electricity
• Energy Market Consequences of an Emerging U.S. Carbon Management Policy: Lithium in Bolivia: Can Resource Nationalism Deliver for Bolivians and the World?
Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies
• The GCC States and the Security Challenges of the Twenty-First Century
Bipartisan Policy Center
• Assessing the Terrorist Threat: A Report of the Bipartisan Policy Center's National Security Preparedness Group
BP [British Petroleum]
• Deepwater Horizon Accident Investigation Report [report, appendices, summary and video]
Brookings
• Afghanistan Index: Tracking Progress and Security in Post-9/11 Afghanistan [updated August 31, 2010 and Archives]
• Attention: Deficit
• Iraq Index: Tracking Reconstruction and Security in Post-Saddam Iraq [updated September 1, 2010 and archives]
CATO Institute
• The Miscellaneous Tariff Bill: A Blueprint for Future Trade Expansion
Center for a New American Security (CNAS)
• South Asia’s Geography of Conflict
Center for Global Development
• Beyond Short-Term Thinking: How to Spend Billions Well in Pakistan, for Them and for Us
Center for Security Policy
• All Us ‘Citizens of the World’
• Oppose Shariah, Don’t Burn the Quran
Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
• Five Years After Katrina
• Freeman Report: Cross-Strait Prospects – ECFA and Beyond
• How America Corrupted Afghanistan: Time to Look in the Mirror
Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
• The Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA): Towards a New Era for Caribbean Trade
Centre for Social Cohesion (CSC)
• Control Orders: Strengthening National Security
Charities Aid Foundation
• World Giving Index
Chatham House
• BBC Recording: Has the Taliban Won the War in Afghanistan?
• Livestock Trade in the Djibouti, Somali and Ethiopian Borderlands
• Livestock Trade in the Kenyan, Somali and Ethiopian Borderlands
• A Macro-Economic Assessment of UK Security and Defence Policy Options
Congress. Senate. Senator Chuck Grassley
• Oversight Review of Audit Reporting by the Department of Defense, Office of Inspector General
• Grassley to Gates letter
Department of Defense
• Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq [June 2010]
• Medal of Honor: Heroes of Iraq and Afghanistan
• Update: Interaction with OSD/PA on Release of Official Information [memo Sept 2, 2010]
Department of State
• Fact Sheets: Devastating Floods in Pakistan: U.S. Secretary of State Calls for Worldwide Help
• Foreign Relations of the United States [FRUS] - Release of Foreign Relations, 1969-1976, Volume VII, Vietnam, July 1970-January 1972
• United States Foreign Policy [remarks by Sec Clinton]
Department of Homeland Security Inspector General
• OIG-10-111 - DHS Needs to Improve the Security Posture of Its Cybersecurity Program Systems
• OIG-10-110 - Information Technology Management Letter for the FY 2009 DHS Integrated Audit (Redacted)
Ethics Resource Center
• Ethics and Employee Engagement
German Institute for Economic Research
• The Business of Piracy in Somalia
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
• Contractor Integrity: Stronger Safeguards Needed for Contractor Access to Sensitive Information. GAO-10-693
• Hybrid Warfare, GAO-10-1036R
• University Research: Policies for the Reimbursement of Indirect Costs Need to Be Updated, GAO-10-937
Heritage Foundation
• China’s Indian Provocations Part of Broader Trend
• Defining the Obama Doctrine, Its Pitfalls, and How to Avoid Them
• Do Not Undermine the U.S.–European Military Relationship
• Don’t Ask, I’ll Just Tell You What the Law Should Be: Log Cabin Republicans v. United States
• India: Fast Growth Does Not Mean a Strong Economy
• The New Face of the Union Movement: Government Employees
• Nine Years Since 9/11: When Will Congress Wake Up on Homeland Security?
• Obama Tax Hikes Defended by Myths and Straw Man Arguments: Summary
• Targeting the Yuan: A Feel-Good but Futile Response
Human Rights Watch
• Dignity on Trial: India’s Need for Sound Standards for Conducting and Interpreting Forensic Examinations of Rape Survivors
• Needless Pain: Government Failure to Provide Palliative Care for Children in Kenya
• A Strange Case: Violations of Workers’ Freedom of Association in the United States by European Multinational Corporations
Immigration Policy Center
• Back to the Border; A Historical Comparison of U.S. Border Politics
Institute of Defence Studies & Analyses
• As Dragon Flexes Muscle, the Rising Sun Goes Defensive
• India-Russia Strategic Partnership: Common Perspectives
• India and New Zealand: Emerging Challenges
• Sky’s No Limit: Space-Based Solar Power, the Next Major Step in the Indo-US Strategic Partnership?
• Journal of Defence Studies, 2010, v. 4, no. 2
o Left-Wing Extremism (LWE) in India
o India, China and the United States: The Triangle That Isn’t
o Naxalite Movement in India: The State's Response
o Integrated Network Electronic Warfare: China's New Concept of Information Warfare
o India's Defence Budget 2010-11: An Analysis
o Management of Medical Stores in Indian Armed Forces
o The Evolution of African Armies: A Perspective in 2010
o North Korea's Nuclear Issue: Security Implications for Asia
o Reconstitution of the Bangladesh Rifles
o India's Response Options to Pakistani Nuclear First Use
o Indian Aerospace Power
o China Builds Dam on Indus near Ladakh
Institute for Democracy in South Africa
• What South Africa Does the World Need?
Institute of Development Studies
• Security Systems in Francophone Africa
Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)
• IAEA Iran Safeguards Report: Iran Degrading Safeguards Effectiveness; Low Enriched Uranium Production Holds Steady
Institute for Security Studies
• The Burundi Peace Process: From Civil War to Conditional Peace
• The Chair of the African Union – What Prospect for Institutionalization?
Institute for the Study of War
• Afghanistan - Order of Battle [updated September 2010]
• Iraq - Order of Battle [updated September 2010]
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
• Ache/Indonesia: IDPs and Returnees Still Face Significant Recovery and Reintegration Needs
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
• Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and Relevant Provisions of Security Council Resolutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran
• Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Syrian Arab Republic
• Israeli Nuclear Capabilities
International Crisis Group
• Azerbaijan: Vulnerable Stability
• Illicit arms in Indonesia
• Managing Land Conflict in Timor-Leste
• Squaring the Circle: Palestinian Security Reform under Occupation
• Turkey’s Crises over Israel and Iran
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• The End of an Era? The Medium- and Long-term Effects of the Global Crisis on Growth in Low-Income Countries
• Review of the Fund's Mandate - Follow-Up on Modernizing Surveillance
• To Starve or not to Starve the Beast?
• Why Does Bad News Increase Volatility and Decrease Leverage?
International Relations and Security Network
• All Eyes on Red Sea Gas
• America in Iraq: Power, Hubris, Change
• Are Tajikistan's Security Services Breaking Down?
• Copper Tells the Story
• Moldova's Referendum Appears To Fail
• Moscow, Baku Cinch Gas Export Deal
• Tajiks Turn to Sharia Law
• The Unsettling Resettlement of Bhutan’s Refugees
• What the Asian Debate about US Hegemony Tells Us
International Peace Institute (IPI)
• The United Nations Security Council and Civil War: First Insights From a New Dataset
Iran Watch
• Iran's Nuclear Timetable [updated September 9, 2010]
• Tracking the World's Efforts to Punish Iranian Proliferators [updated August 13, 2010]
Jamestown Foundation
• China Brief, September 10, 2010, v. 10, no. 18
o Premier Wen's "Southern Tour": Ideological Rifts in the CCP?
o China’s Evolving Anti-Access Approach: “Where’s the Nearest (U.S.) Carrier?”
o China’s Emerging Debate on Military Transparency
o Ryukyu Chain in China’s Island Strategy
• Terrorism Monitor, September 9, 2010, v. 8, no. 34
o Al-Qaeda's Sa'id al-Shihri Seeks to Revolutionize the Saudi Military
o Floods Wash Out Counterterrorist Operations in North Waziristan
o Hukm al-Tatarrus: al-Qaeda's Justification for Killing Muslim Civilians
Migration Policy Institute
• The Demographics Impacts of Repealing Birthright Citizenship
National Academies Press
• Assessing the Effects of the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill on Human Health: A Summary of the June 2010 Workshop
National Science Foundation
• Proposed Federal R&D Funding for FY 2011 Dips to $143 Billion, with Cuts in National Defense R&D
OpenTheGovernment.org
• 2010 SecrecyReport Card htt
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
• The Consequences of Banking Crises for Public Debt
Peterson Institute for International Economics
• Not All Financial Regulation Is Global
Pew Global Attitudes Project
• Turks Downbeat About Their Institutions: Even Military Less Well-Regarded
Polytechnic Institute of NYU
• Why Did the Crisis of 2008 Happen?
Portfolio.com
• A Stress Test for America
Project on Defense Alternatives
• An Undisciplined Defense: Understanding the $2 Trillion Surge in US Defense Spending
Reporters Without Borders
• The Iraq War—A Heavy Death Toll for the Media
Small Wars Journal
• Approaching Doctrinal Training the Army Way
• The Art of “Campaigning” to Inform and Influence
• Department of Defense Special Branch: An Organizational Proposal for Counter-threat Operations in Low Intensity Conflicts
• Design and the Prospects for Deviant Leadership
• Hezbollah in the Tri-Border Area of South America
• Khastan Tawanestan! – “We Can, We Will!”
• Nine Years After 9/11: Assessing the War on Terror
• Rebuilding the Force: Unconventional Advisory Forces in Counterinsurgency
• Teaching New Dogs Old Tricks: Can the Hamlet Evaluation System Inform the Search for Metrics in Afghanistan?
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
• Controlling Conflict Resources in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• New Foreign Policy Actors in China
Strategic Studies Institute
• An Army Transformed: The U.S. Army's Post-Vietnam Recovery and the Dynamics of Change in Military Organizations
• Somalia: Line in the Sand--Identification of MYM Vulnerabilities
Transportation Research Board
• Cooperative Research Programs Security Research Status Report
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
• Ruling on "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
US Institute of Peace (USIP)
• Averting Hell on Earth: Religion and the Prevention of Genocide • Iran's Subsidies Conundrum
• On the Issues: What if Kabul Bank Fails?
• Many Shuras Do Not a Government Make: International Community Engagement with Local Councils in Afghanistan
• Pakistan: Progress in Peacebuilding
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Combating Export Violations to Iran: The Role of ICE Homeland Security Investigations
• Beyond the Washington Summit: Challenges Facing Israeli-Palestinian Talks
• The Red Line: How to Assess Progress in U.S. Iran Policy
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Friday's Miscellany 09-03-2010
Afghanistan Study Group
• A New Way Forward: Rethinking U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan
Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• Africa’s Fragile States: Empowering Extremists, Exporting Terrorism
Air University
• Strategic Studies Quarterly, Fall 2010, v. 4, no. 3 htt
o Air Diplomacy: Protecting American National Interests
o Guidelines for Nation Builders
o How Terrorist Groups End: Studies of the Twentieth Century
o Unit Cohesion and the Impact of DADT
o Cyber Deterrence: Tougher in Theory than in Practice?
o The European Union and the Comprehensive Civil-Military
o Approach in Euro-Atlantic Security: Matching Reality to Rhetoric
American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)
• German Family Policy and the Idea of "Wahlfreiheit"
American Red Cross
• Social Media in Disasters and Emergencies
American Security Project
• Climate Change and Immigration: Warnings for America’s Southern Border
Amnesty International
• Rwanda: Safer to Stay Silent: The Chilling Effect of Rwanda's Laws on 'Genocide Ideology' and 'Sectarianism'
• Slovakia: Steps to End Segregation in Education: Briefing to the Government of Slovakia
Australian Strategic Policy Institute
• Australia’s Commitment in Afghanistan: Moving to a More Comprehensive Approach by Raspal Khosa
Brookings
• Pakistan Index: Tracking Variables of Reconstruction & Security in Pakistan [updated August 31, 2010 and Archives]
• Seven Myths That Cloud Immigration Debate
• The State of New Orleans
• Staying Power: The U.S. Mission in Afghanistan Beyond 2011
Center for Defense Information (CDI)
• What Did the Rumsfeld/Gates Pentagon Do with $1 Trillion?
Center for Immigration Studies (CIS)
• Birthright Citizenship in the United States: A Global Comparison
Center for Security Policy
• Friend of the Brotherhood?
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
• The Influence of Regional Military Threats on Israeli Security
• Iraq: The Realities of US "Withdrawal" of Combat Forces and the Challenges of Strategic Partnership
• South Asia Monitor, no. 145 Building the City: India’s Urban Future
• Update on the US Withdrawal From Iraq
• Violence in the North Caucasus
Chatham House
• Britain and France: A Dialogue of Decline?
Child Welfare Information Gateway
• The Role of First Responders in Child Maltreatment Cases: Disaster and Nondisaster Situations
Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)
• CTC Sentinel, August 2010, v. 3, no. 8
o Evaluating the Al-Qa`ida Threat to the U.S. Homeland
o The Growing Danger from Radical Islamist Groups in the United States
o Manchester, New York, and Oslo: Three Centrally Directed Al-Qa`ida Plots
o Lessons Learned from the July 2010 Norwegian Terrorist Plot
o American Journeys to Jihad: U.S. Extremists and Foreign Conflicts During the 1980s and 1990s
o Tensions Rise Between Hizb-i-Islami and the Taliban in Afghanistan
o Recent Highlights in Terrorist Activity
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
• A Correctional Institution’s Guide to Islamic Religious Practices
• An Educator’s Guide to Islamic Religious Practices
• An Employer’s Guide to Islamic Religious Practices
• A Health Care Provider’s Guide to Islamic Religious Practices
• Law Enforcement Official’s Guide to The Muslim Community
• Teachable Moment Community Response Guide: Guidance for Local Communities to Respond to Challenges & Opposition [Ramadan 2010]
Council on Foreign Relations
• Internet Governance in an Age of Cyber Insecurity
• Unanswered Policy Questions on U.S. Troops
Department of Defense
• Futenma Replacement Facility Bilateral Experts Study Group Report
Department of Defense Inspector General
• D-2010-081 Army Use of Time-and-Materials Contracts in Southwest Asia
• SDIG-SWA-10-01 Observations from Oversight Organizations Impacting Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom Beginning FY 2003 Through FY 2009
DOD Task Force on the Prevention of Suicide by Members of the Armed Forces
• The Challenge and the Promise: Strengthening the Force, Preventing Suicide and Saving Lives
Department of Homeland Security
• Progress in Implementing New Security Measures Along the Southwest Border
Department of State
• Fact Sheets: Foreign Terrorist Organization Designation
Energy Information Administration (EIA)
• Country Analysis Brief: Australia
• Country Analysis Brief: Ecuador
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, August 2010
o The Returning Military Veteran: Is Your Organization Ready?
o The Strategic Communication Plan
o Confronting Science and Market Positioning
Gallup Global Reports
• Religiosity Highest in World's Poorest Nations
George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute
• Baghdad Surprise?
• Iraq in Focus
Government Accountability Office
• Defense Acquisitions: Navy's Ability to Overcome Challenges Facing the Littoral Combat Ship Will Determine Eventual Capabilities, GAO-10-523
• Hurricane Recovery: Federal Government Provided a Range of Assistance to Nonprofits following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, GAO-10-800
• Onshore Oil and Gas: BLM's Management of Public Protests to Its Lease Sales Needs Improvement, GAO-10-670
• Pipeline Security: TSA Has Taken Actions to Help Strengthen Security, but Could Improve Priority-Setting and Assessment Processes, GAO-10-867
• Recovery Act: States Could Provide More Information on Education Programs to Enhance the Public's Understanding of Fund Use, GAO-10-807
Heritage Foundation
• Defining the Obama Doctrine, Its Pitfalls, and How to Avoid Them
• India’s Flawed Nuclear Legislation Leaves U.S.–India Partnership Short
• Obama’s Iraq Speech Should Stress a Resolute U.S. Security Commitment
• Returning More Power to the States Is the Natural Evolution in Homeland Security
• The U.S.–U.K. Extradition Treaty: In the Interest of Both Nations
Institute for Business and Home Safety
• Five Years Later – Are We Better Prepared?
Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)
• Reconciling Doctrines: Prerequisite for Peace in South Asia
• The Sochi Summit: Fresh Moves on The Grand Eurasian Chessboard
Institute for the Study of War
• Fact Sheet: The Iraq Drawdown
• Graph: Iraq Defense Spending
• MAP: Disposition of U.S. Forces in Iraq
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
• India National and State Authorities Failing to Protect IDPs
International Crisis Group
• Azerbaijan: Vulnerable Stability
• Sudan: Defining the North-South Border
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• The Effects of the Global Crisis on Islamic and Conventional Banks: A Comparative Study
• Information Content of DQAF Indicators - Empirical Entropy Analysis
• Optimal Price Indices for Targeting Inflation Under Incomplete Markets
• Republic of Korea: Selected Issues
• The Unequal Benefits of Fuel Subsidies: A Review of Evidence for Developing Countries
International Relations and Security Network
• Ahmadinejad Faces New Conservative Challenge
• China's Expanding 'Coastal Waters'
• Costs of War: Hotel Afghanistan
• India Re-Calibrating Af-Pak Strategy
• Information Warfare in the Corporate Business Environment
• Is Saakashvili Preventing Peace with Russia?
• Kashmir: A Place of Blood and Memory (I)
• Mexico Nets Another 'Kingpin'
• New Developments in Military Automation
• Obama’s Failing Middle East Policy
• Ortega, Nicaragua’s Worst Option
• Power Hungry in Iraq
• Testing Japan’s Pacifist Waters
• Ukraine's New Regime: The First 200 Days
• What Kashmiris Want (II)
National Academies Press
• Examination of the U.S. Air Force's Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Workforce Needs in the Future and Its Strategy to Meet Those Needs
• New Research Directions for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
• Review of the Design of the Dynasafe Static Detonation Chamber (SDC) System for the Anniston Chemical Agent Disposal Facility: Letter Report
• Seeing Photons: Progress and Limits of Visible and Infrared Sensor Arrays
National Defense Intelligence College Press
• The Blue Planet
National Defense University Press
• Joint Force Quarterly (JFQ), 4th Qrt October 2010, no. 59
o An Interview with General James T. Conway, 34th Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps
o Developing an Operational Reserve: A Policy and Historical Context and the Way Forward
o Operational for What? The Future of the Guard and Reserves
o Senior Officer Professional Military Education as an Equalizer
o The Security Trinity: Understanding the Role of Security Forces in COIN
o Understanding Sri Lanka's Defeat of the Tamil Tigers
o ISAF and Afghanistan: The Impact of Failure on NATO's Future
o A QDR for All Seasons? The Pentagon Is Not Preparing for the Most Likely Conflicts
o Is the Conduct of War a Business?
o Harmonious Ocean? Chinese Aircraft Carriers and the Australia-U.S. Aliiance
o U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan: Flawed Assumptions Will Lead to Ultimate Failure
o Information Strategy: The Missing Link
o Ike Warned Us About This: The MICC Stranglehold on Responsible Procurement
o Redress of Professional Military Education: The Clarion Call
o Breaking Ranks: Dissent and the Military Professional
o Building a Potemkin Village: A Taliban Strategy to Reclaim the Homeland
o Strategic Communication in the New Media Sphere
o What U.S. Cyber Command Must Do
o China's Ace in the Hole: Rare Earth Elements
o Responsible Drawdown: Synchromizing the Joint Vision
o Force Planning in the 2010 QDR
o A Patchwork Strategy of Consensus: Establishing Rule of Law in Afghanistan
o Operation Albion and Joint Amphibious Doctrine
o Redefining the Center of Gravity
o ALSA: Increasing Warfighter Interoperability
National Guard Bureau
• The National Guard: A Great Value for America
NATO Defense College
• Research Paper 61 - NATO's Nuclear Weapons in Europe: Beyond "Yes" or "No"
Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
• Fresh Insights on Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration: A Survey for Practitioners
Pew Hispanic Center
• U.S. Unauthorized Immigration Flows Are Down Sharply Since Mid-Decade
Rand
• Analyzing North Korea's Decision-Making Process on its Nuclear Weapons Programs with the Rational Choice and Cognitive Choice Models
• Estimation of the Department of Defense Small Business Innovation Research Program Treatment Effect
• Three Proposed Initiatives for Improving Mobility, Quality of Life, and Economic Growth in the West Bank: A Visual Summary
Royal United Services Institute
• Interoperability in a Crisis 2: Human Factors and Organisational Processes
Security Council Report
• Update Report No. 1: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Small Wars Journal
• Afghanistan: It’s Not Over
• Afghanistan Part II: The Reoccurrence of International Terrorism in Somalia
• Another Way in Afghanistan: Overcoming the Current Flawed Strategy
• “Bring It On” Worked
• Eritrea and Al Shabaab: Realpolitik on the Horn of Africa
• Genocide in Darfur: A Rebuttal of the UN Commission of Inquiry
• Professional Military Education for United States Army Special Operations Forces (Part Three)
• Reflections on Algeria’s Islamist Experiences, Past and Present
• A Retrospective on Combat in Iraq
• Throwing the Book at the Taliban: Undermining Taliban Legitimacy by Highlighting Their Own Hypocrisy
Stimson Center
• The Changing Political Utility of Nuclear Weapons: Nuclear Threats from 1970 to 2010
Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)
• Dilemmas of Brazilian Grand Strategy
Unity Abandoned Buildings Outreach Team
• Search and Rescue Five Years Later: Saving People Still Trapped in Katrina’s Ruins
US Institute of Peace (USIP)
• Blogs and Bullets: New Media in Contentious Politics
• Gender Matters: Power and Peacebuilding [PeaceWatch]
• Improving High-Value Resource Contracting in Afghanistan
• Real Change for Afghan Women's Rights: Opportunities and Challenges in the Upcoming Parliamentary Elections
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Egypt in Transition: Presidential Succession and U.S. Policy
• Palestinian Public Opinion Turns Pragmatic as Peace Talks Open
• The Peace Talks Resume: Prospects for Success
White House - Office of the Vice President
• The Recovery Act: Transforming the American Economy through Innovation
World Public Opinion.org
• Attitude Factors in the Search for Israeli-Palestinian Peace: A Comprehensive Review of Recent Polls
• A New Way Forward: Rethinking U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan
Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• Africa’s Fragile States: Empowering Extremists, Exporting Terrorism
Air University
• Strategic Studies Quarterly, Fall 2010, v. 4, no. 3 htt
o Air Diplomacy: Protecting American National Interests
o Guidelines for Nation Builders
o How Terrorist Groups End: Studies of the Twentieth Century
o Unit Cohesion and the Impact of DADT
o Cyber Deterrence: Tougher in Theory than in Practice?
o The European Union and the Comprehensive Civil-Military
o Approach in Euro-Atlantic Security: Matching Reality to Rhetoric
American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)
• German Family Policy and the Idea of "Wahlfreiheit"
American Red Cross
• Social Media in Disasters and Emergencies
American Security Project
• Climate Change and Immigration: Warnings for America’s Southern Border
Amnesty International
• Rwanda: Safer to Stay Silent: The Chilling Effect of Rwanda's Laws on 'Genocide Ideology' and 'Sectarianism'
• Slovakia: Steps to End Segregation in Education: Briefing to the Government of Slovakia
Australian Strategic Policy Institute
• Australia’s Commitment in Afghanistan: Moving to a More Comprehensive Approach by Raspal Khosa
Brookings
• Pakistan Index: Tracking Variables of Reconstruction & Security in Pakistan [updated August 31, 2010 and Archives]
• Seven Myths That Cloud Immigration Debate
• The State of New Orleans
• Staying Power: The U.S. Mission in Afghanistan Beyond 2011
Center for Defense Information (CDI)
• What Did the Rumsfeld/Gates Pentagon Do with $1 Trillion?
Center for Immigration Studies (CIS)
• Birthright Citizenship in the United States: A Global Comparison
Center for Security Policy
• Friend of the Brotherhood?
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
• The Influence of Regional Military Threats on Israeli Security
• Iraq: The Realities of US "Withdrawal" of Combat Forces and the Challenges of Strategic Partnership
• South Asia Monitor, no. 145 Building the City: India’s Urban Future
• Update on the US Withdrawal From Iraq
• Violence in the North Caucasus
Chatham House
• Britain and France: A Dialogue of Decline?
Child Welfare Information Gateway
• The Role of First Responders in Child Maltreatment Cases: Disaster and Nondisaster Situations
Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)
• CTC Sentinel, August 2010, v. 3, no. 8
o Evaluating the Al-Qa`ida Threat to the U.S. Homeland
o The Growing Danger from Radical Islamist Groups in the United States
o Manchester, New York, and Oslo: Three Centrally Directed Al-Qa`ida Plots
o Lessons Learned from the July 2010 Norwegian Terrorist Plot
o American Journeys to Jihad: U.S. Extremists and Foreign Conflicts During the 1980s and 1990s
o Tensions Rise Between Hizb-i-Islami and the Taliban in Afghanistan
o Recent Highlights in Terrorist Activity
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
• A Correctional Institution’s Guide to Islamic Religious Practices
• An Educator’s Guide to Islamic Religious Practices
• An Employer’s Guide to Islamic Religious Practices
• A Health Care Provider’s Guide to Islamic Religious Practices
• Law Enforcement Official’s Guide to The Muslim Community
• Teachable Moment Community Response Guide: Guidance for Local Communities to Respond to Challenges & Opposition [Ramadan 2010]
Council on Foreign Relations
• Internet Governance in an Age of Cyber Insecurity
• Unanswered Policy Questions on U.S. Troops
Department of Defense
• Futenma Replacement Facility Bilateral Experts Study Group Report
Department of Defense Inspector General
• D-2010-081 Army Use of Time-and-Materials Contracts in Southwest Asia
• SDIG-SWA-10-01 Observations from Oversight Organizations Impacting Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom Beginning FY 2003 Through FY 2009
DOD Task Force on the Prevention of Suicide by Members of the Armed Forces
• The Challenge and the Promise: Strengthening the Force, Preventing Suicide and Saving Lives
Department of Homeland Security
• Progress in Implementing New Security Measures Along the Southwest Border
Department of State
• Fact Sheets: Foreign Terrorist Organization Designation
Energy Information Administration (EIA)
• Country Analysis Brief: Australia
• Country Analysis Brief: Ecuador
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, August 2010
o The Returning Military Veteran: Is Your Organization Ready?
o The Strategic Communication Plan
o Confronting Science and Market Positioning
Gallup Global Reports
• Religiosity Highest in World's Poorest Nations
George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute
• Baghdad Surprise?
• Iraq in Focus
Government Accountability Office
• Defense Acquisitions: Navy's Ability to Overcome Challenges Facing the Littoral Combat Ship Will Determine Eventual Capabilities, GAO-10-523
• Hurricane Recovery: Federal Government Provided a Range of Assistance to Nonprofits following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, GAO-10-800
• Onshore Oil and Gas: BLM's Management of Public Protests to Its Lease Sales Needs Improvement, GAO-10-670
• Pipeline Security: TSA Has Taken Actions to Help Strengthen Security, but Could Improve Priority-Setting and Assessment Processes, GAO-10-867
• Recovery Act: States Could Provide More Information on Education Programs to Enhance the Public's Understanding of Fund Use, GAO-10-807
Heritage Foundation
• Defining the Obama Doctrine, Its Pitfalls, and How to Avoid Them
• India’s Flawed Nuclear Legislation Leaves U.S.–India Partnership Short
• Obama’s Iraq Speech Should Stress a Resolute U.S. Security Commitment
• Returning More Power to the States Is the Natural Evolution in Homeland Security
• The U.S.–U.K. Extradition Treaty: In the Interest of Both Nations
Institute for Business and Home Safety
• Five Years Later – Are We Better Prepared?
Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)
• Reconciling Doctrines: Prerequisite for Peace in South Asia
• The Sochi Summit: Fresh Moves on The Grand Eurasian Chessboard
Institute for the Study of War
• Fact Sheet: The Iraq Drawdown
• Graph: Iraq Defense Spending
• MAP: Disposition of U.S. Forces in Iraq
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
• India National and State Authorities Failing to Protect IDPs
International Crisis Group
• Azerbaijan: Vulnerable Stability
• Sudan: Defining the North-South Border
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• The Effects of the Global Crisis on Islamic and Conventional Banks: A Comparative Study
• Information Content of DQAF Indicators - Empirical Entropy Analysis
• Optimal Price Indices for Targeting Inflation Under Incomplete Markets
• Republic of Korea: Selected Issues
• The Unequal Benefits of Fuel Subsidies: A Review of Evidence for Developing Countries
International Relations and Security Network
• Ahmadinejad Faces New Conservative Challenge
• China's Expanding 'Coastal Waters'
• Costs of War: Hotel Afghanistan
• India Re-Calibrating Af-Pak Strategy
• Information Warfare in the Corporate Business Environment
• Is Saakashvili Preventing Peace with Russia?
• Kashmir: A Place of Blood and Memory (I)
• Mexico Nets Another 'Kingpin'
• New Developments in Military Automation
• Obama’s Failing Middle East Policy
• Ortega, Nicaragua’s Worst Option
• Power Hungry in Iraq
• Testing Japan’s Pacifist Waters
• Ukraine's New Regime: The First 200 Days
• What Kashmiris Want (II)
National Academies Press
• Examination of the U.S. Air Force's Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Workforce Needs in the Future and Its Strategy to Meet Those Needs
• New Research Directions for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
• Review of the Design of the Dynasafe Static Detonation Chamber (SDC) System for the Anniston Chemical Agent Disposal Facility: Letter Report
• Seeing Photons: Progress and Limits of Visible and Infrared Sensor Arrays
National Defense Intelligence College Press
• The Blue Planet
National Defense University Press
• Joint Force Quarterly (JFQ), 4th Qrt October 2010, no. 59
o An Interview with General James T. Conway, 34th Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps
o Developing an Operational Reserve: A Policy and Historical Context and the Way Forward
o Operational for What? The Future of the Guard and Reserves
o Senior Officer Professional Military Education as an Equalizer
o The Security Trinity: Understanding the Role of Security Forces in COIN
o Understanding Sri Lanka's Defeat of the Tamil Tigers
o ISAF and Afghanistan: The Impact of Failure on NATO's Future
o A QDR for All Seasons? The Pentagon Is Not Preparing for the Most Likely Conflicts
o Is the Conduct of War a Business?
o Harmonious Ocean? Chinese Aircraft Carriers and the Australia-U.S. Aliiance
o U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan: Flawed Assumptions Will Lead to Ultimate Failure
o Information Strategy: The Missing Link
o Ike Warned Us About This: The MICC Stranglehold on Responsible Procurement
o Redress of Professional Military Education: The Clarion Call
o Breaking Ranks: Dissent and the Military Professional
o Building a Potemkin Village: A Taliban Strategy to Reclaim the Homeland
o Strategic Communication in the New Media Sphere
o What U.S. Cyber Command Must Do
o China's Ace in the Hole: Rare Earth Elements
o Responsible Drawdown: Synchromizing the Joint Vision
o Force Planning in the 2010 QDR
o A Patchwork Strategy of Consensus: Establishing Rule of Law in Afghanistan
o Operation Albion and Joint Amphibious Doctrine
o Redefining the Center of Gravity
o ALSA: Increasing Warfighter Interoperability
National Guard Bureau
• The National Guard: A Great Value for America
NATO Defense College
• Research Paper 61 - NATO's Nuclear Weapons in Europe: Beyond "Yes" or "No"
Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
• Fresh Insights on Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration: A Survey for Practitioners
Pew Hispanic Center
• U.S. Unauthorized Immigration Flows Are Down Sharply Since Mid-Decade
Rand
• Analyzing North Korea's Decision-Making Process on its Nuclear Weapons Programs with the Rational Choice and Cognitive Choice Models
• Estimation of the Department of Defense Small Business Innovation Research Program Treatment Effect
• Three Proposed Initiatives for Improving Mobility, Quality of Life, and Economic Growth in the West Bank: A Visual Summary
Royal United Services Institute
• Interoperability in a Crisis 2: Human Factors and Organisational Processes
Security Council Report
• Update Report No. 1: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Small Wars Journal
• Afghanistan: It’s Not Over
• Afghanistan Part II: The Reoccurrence of International Terrorism in Somalia
• Another Way in Afghanistan: Overcoming the Current Flawed Strategy
• “Bring It On” Worked
• Eritrea and Al Shabaab: Realpolitik on the Horn of Africa
• Genocide in Darfur: A Rebuttal of the UN Commission of Inquiry
• Professional Military Education for United States Army Special Operations Forces (Part Three)
• Reflections on Algeria’s Islamist Experiences, Past and Present
• A Retrospective on Combat in Iraq
• Throwing the Book at the Taliban: Undermining Taliban Legitimacy by Highlighting Their Own Hypocrisy
Stimson Center
• The Changing Political Utility of Nuclear Weapons: Nuclear Threats from 1970 to 2010
Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)
• Dilemmas of Brazilian Grand Strategy
Unity Abandoned Buildings Outreach Team
• Search and Rescue Five Years Later: Saving People Still Trapped in Katrina’s Ruins
US Institute of Peace (USIP)
• Blogs and Bullets: New Media in Contentious Politics
• Gender Matters: Power and Peacebuilding [PeaceWatch]
• Improving High-Value Resource Contracting in Afghanistan
• Real Change for Afghan Women's Rights: Opportunities and Challenges in the Upcoming Parliamentary Elections
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Egypt in Transition: Presidential Succession and U.S. Policy
• Palestinian Public Opinion Turns Pragmatic as Peace Talks Open
• The Peace Talks Resume: Prospects for Success
White House - Office of the Vice President
• The Recovery Act: Transforming the American Economy through Innovation
World Public Opinion.org
• Attitude Factors in the Search for Israeli-Palestinian Peace: A Comprehensive Review of Recent Polls
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