House Homeland Security Committee reports

The Home Committees on Homeland Security and Foreign Affairs recently released their report
Wasted Lessons of 9/11: How the Bush Administration Has Ignored the Law and Squandered Its Opportunities to Make Our Country Safer and the HS Committee also released its report Giving a Voice to Open Source Stakeholders: A Survey of State, Local & Tribal Law Enforcement

Task Force on DoD Nuclear Weapons Management

The just released Report of the Secretary of Defense Task Force on DoD Nuclear Weapons Management – Phase I: The Air Force’s Nuclear Mission is available

The transcript of the special briefing related to the report is available at http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=4284

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WMD report card and reports

The WMD Report Card(s) that has been in the news lately is now available. The report - "WMD Report Care: Evaluating U.S. Policies to Prevent Nuclear, Chemical & Biological Terrorism Since 2005" was done by the Partnership for a Secure America, a bipartisan group

The main page for the report and the components is http://www.psaonline.org/article.php?id=403

The full report card is available at
http://www.psaonline.org/downloads/ReportCard%208-25-08.pdf

The nuclear report -- "Nuclear Terrorism: US Policies to Reduce the Threat of Nuclear Terror" is available at
http://www.psaonline.org/downloads/NUCLEAR%20report%208-28-08.pdf

The biological report - "Biological Terrorism: US Policies to Reduce Global Biothreats" is available at
http://www.psaonline.org/downloads/BIOLOGICAL%20report%208-28-08.pdf

The chemical report "Chemical Terrorism: US Policies to Reduce the Chemical Terror Threat" is available at
http://www.psaonline.org/downloads/CHEMICAL%20report%208-28-08.pdf

Friday's Miscellany 09-05-2008

Air University
Air & Space Power Journal
Fall 2008, v. 22, no. 3
· The Transformation of Air Forces on the Korean Peninsula by Lt Gen Stephen G. Wood, USAF and Maj Christopher A. Johnson, DM, USAF, USAF
· Airpower Imbalance: Nuclear Pakistan’s Achille’s Heel by Air Commodore Tariq Mahmud Ashraf, Pakistan Air Force, Retired
· Redefining Air, Space, and Cyber Power by Lt Col Paul D. Berg, USAF
· The Strategic Role of Airpower: An Indian Perspective on How We Need to Think, Train, and Fight in the Coming Years by Air Commodore Arjun Subramaniam, Indian Air Force
· Rethinking the Combined Force Air Component Commander’s Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Approach to Counterinsurgency by Lt Col Michael L. Downs, USAF
· Revisiting South African Airpower Thought: Considering Some Challenges and Tensions in Southern Africa by Dr. Francois Vreÿ and Dr. Abel Esterhuyse
· Strategy and Cost: A Gap in Our Military Decision-Making Process by Lt Col Lawrence Spinetta, USAF
· Go Pills in Combat: Prejudice, Propriety, and Practicality by Dr. John A. Caldwell

Strategic Studies Quarterly
Fall 2008, v. 2 No. 3
· The Requirement for a Future Strategy by Gen John A. Shaud
· USAF Cyberspace Command: To Fly and Fight in Cyberspace by Maj Gen William T. Lord, USAF
· A China Policy for the Twenty-First Century by Amb. Chas W. Freeman Jr., US Foreign Service, Retired
· A Time for Action: The Case for Interagency Deliberate Planning by Col Sami Said, ANG, Lt Col Cameron G. Holt, USAF
· US Foreign Policy toward North Korea: A Way Ahead by LCDR Robert F. Ogden II, USN, Lt Col David A. Anderson, USMC, Retired
· Harnessing the Islamist Revolution: A Strategy to Win the War against Religious Extremism by Dan Green

American Enterprise Institute
· The Autumn of Mubarak
· The Jews of Libya: Coexistence, Persecution, Resettlement

Amnesty International
· UN Counter-Terrorism Review Should Make Human Rights a Priority

BASIC
· Afghanistan Update, No. 40

Brookings Institution
· The Beijing Olympics and China’s Soft Power
· The IMF's Role in Low-Income Countries: Issues and Challenges
· Next Generation Financial Reforms for India

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
· Engaging Pakistan—Getting the Balance Right
· Minding the Gaps: U.S. & India Views on Nuclear Cooperation

Center for American Progress
· How to Redeploy: Implementing a Responsible Drawdown of U.S. Forces from Iraq
· Somalia: A Country in Peril, a Policy Nightmare
· Think Again: Remember Iraq?
· Understanding Bushonomics: How We Got Into This Mess in the First Place

Center for Defense Information
· Countdown to Air Force Cyber Command Stopped
· Space Security Update #6: Sept. 5, 2008

Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
· Building Democracies and Markets in the Post-Conflict Context

Center for New American Security (CNAS)
· Iran: Assessing U.S. Strategic Options

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
· Covering the Afghan-Pakistan War
· A Resolute Strategy on Georgia
· Security Challenges and Threats in the Gulf: A Net Assessment
· Transferring Provinces to Iraqi Control: The Reality and the Risks

Combat Studies Institute
· Scouts Out! The Development of Reconnaissance Units in Modern Armies

Congressional Budget Office
· Contractors' Support of U.S. Operations in Iraq
· Behavioral Economics: Lessons from Retirement Research for Health Care and Beyond
· Updated Long-Term Projections for Social Security

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
· U.S. Trade Strategy

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)
· D-2008-125 Summary of Information Assurance Weaknesses Found in Audit Reports Issued From August 1, 2007, Through July 31, 2008, September 2, 2008

Director of National Intelligence (DNI)
· ODNI Releases Contractor Numbers

EU Institute for Security Studies
· Back to the Future? US-Russia Relations After Georgia

European Law Enforcement Cooperative
· EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report TE-SAT 2008
· European Organised Crime Threat Assessment (OCTA) 2008

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
· How We Misunderstand Terrorism
· Terrorism Assumptions and Reality

Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP)
· Multidimensional and Integrated Peace Operations: Trends and Challenges
· Peace Operations and Organised Crime

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· Defense Health Care: Oversight of Military Services' Post-Deployment Health Reassessment Completion Rates Is Limited
· Drug-Free Communities Support Program: Stronger Internal Controls and Other Actions Needed to Better Manage the Grant-Making Process
· Various Issues Led to the Termination of the United States-Canada Shared Border Management Pilot Project

Heritage Foundation
· As Gustav Lands, There Are Lessons to Be Learned
· The Eighth Defense Ministerial of the Americas: End of the Line?
· Fukuda's Resignation Reflects Japan's Political Gridlock
· Olympic Invasion: China, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Russia's Aggression
· Textbook Appeasement: The State Department and the Islamic Saudi Academy

Hoover Institution
· China Leadership Monitor No. 26

Human Rights Watch
· Human Rights Watch Observations on the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) Draft Protocol on Cluster Munitions: Prepared for the Meeting of the CCW Group of Governmental Experts
· Libya: Rights at Risk

Institute for the Study of War
· Iraq Report -- Special Groups Regenerate
· Situation Report, Russo-Georgian Conflict

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)
· Bosnia and Herzegovina: Broader and Improved Support for Durable Solutions Required
· Georgia: Tentative Return of Some of the People Who Fled August 2008 Conflict
· Internal Displacement to Urban Areas: The Tufts-IDMC Profiling Study

International Crisis Group
· CrisisWatch N°61, 1 September 2008

International Relations and Security Network
· Ahmadinejad Plans for Victory
· Angola: A Vote for the Books
· Bosnia: The Algerian Six Prepare Their Cases
· Iraq, Iran, China: The Emerging Axis
· Letter: The Long Way Home in Dili
· Rumblings of Dissent on Bashir Indictment
· Swiss Banks Position for US Elections
· Tzipi Livni: Grasping the Nettle
· US: Bush's Foreign Policy Footsteps

National Defense Intelligence College (NDIC)
· Finding Leaders: Preparing the Intelligence Community for Succession Management

Parallel History Project on Cooperative Security (PHP)
· Indo-Soviet Relations: New Russian Evidence
· Selective Bibliography on the Cold War Alliances
o HTML
o PDF

RAND
· A Common Operating Picture for Air Force Materiel Sustainment

Henry L Stimson Center
· Cross-Strait Relations: First the Easy Steps, Then the Difficult Ones
· Iraq’s Children: From Insurgents to Civilians?
· The New Foreign Menace? Sovereign Wealth Funds and US National Security

Strategic Studies Institute
· The View from There

US Institute of Peace
· Haiti: Confronting the Gangs of Port-au-Prince
· Making Borders Irrelevant in Kashmir
· Pakistan After Musharraf’s Departure
· Securing the Future: A Primer on Security Sector Reform in Conflict Countries

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
· Reconsidering Hamas: A View from Amman
· Terrorist Threat and U.S. Response: A Changing Landscape

World Trade Center Medical Working Group of New York City
· 2008 Annual Report on 9/11 Health

Friday's Miscellany 08-29-2008

Air Force Space Command (AFSPC)
High Frontier Journal, August 2008, v. 4, no. 4

• National Security Space Collaboration as a National Defense Imperative by Mr. Scott F. Large
• Mission Assurance—A Key Part of Space Vehicle Launch Mission Success by Maj Gen Ellen M. Pawlikowski
• Building an Integrated Intelligence Network: Challenges and Opportunities by Dr. Pete Rustan
  Transforming National Space Security: Enabling DoD and Intelligence Community Defensive Space Control Collaboration by BG Jeffrey C. Horne
• Reflections on the Integration of Black and White Space by Brig Gen Katherine E. Roberts
  National Security Space – A Personal Perspective: An Interview with General Thomas S. Moorman Jr., USAF, Retired by Mr. George W. Bradley III and Dr. Rick Sturdevant
• National Security Space Collaboration Constructing a National Security Space Plan by Mr. Joseph D. Rouge
• Assuring Access to Space: The Partnership Continues by Col John G. Stizza
• Common Language, Common Culture: How the Space Community Must Change Language and Perspective to Achieve Cross-Domain Integration and Dominance by Lt Col Dana Flood
• Rescuing Apollo: Building Consensus toward a National Strategy for Space by Maj Patrick A. Brown

American Enterprise Institute

• Situation Report, Russo-Georgian Conflict

BASIC

• The Dilemma between Deterrence and Disarmament: Moving beyond the Perception of China as a Nuclear Threat
• Iran Update, No. 124

Brookings Institution

• 7 Years to Climate Midnight

Center for American Progress

• The Terrorism Index

Center for Defense Information

• U.S. Policy Brief: The Need for a Strategic Dialogue with China

Center for Security Studies (CSS)

• Linking Environment and Conflict Prevention: The Role of the United Nations

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

• The Challenges to U.S. National Security
• Defense Investment Strategies in an Uncertain World
• The Future Security Environment
• Future Security Environment Presentation
• Investment Strategies Presentation
• Strategic Competence Presentation
• U.S. Combat Training, Operational Art, and Strategic Competence
• U.S. Defense Budget—Options and Choices for the Long Haul

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)

• Abandon Ships: The Costly Illusion of Unaffordable Transformation
• Commentary: Conditions-Based U.S. Withdrawals from Iraq
• Issues & Insights Vol. 08 - No. 12 - August 21, 2008
  Promoting the Southeast Asia Weapons Free Zone

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

• Pandemic Influenza Storybook: Personal Recollections from Survivors, Families, and Friends

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

• A Life in Intelligence - The Richard Helms Collection

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

• Russia's Security Ties in Asia

Department of Energy

• Next Generation Nuclear Plant Licensing Strategy: A Report to Congress

Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)

• Conference Call with Dr. Ronald Sanders, Associate Director of National Intelligence for Human Capital: Results of the Fiscal Year 2007 U.S. Intelligence Community Inventory of Core Contractor Personnel

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

• How We Misunderstand Terrorism

German Development Institute (DIE)

• The EU's Central Asia Policy and its Implications for China
• Poor and Powerful: The Rise of China and India and the Implications for Europe
• Reforms in the EU's Aid Architecture and Management

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• FAA Airspace Redesign: An Analysis of the New York/New Jersey/Philadelphia Project
• Grants Management: Attention Needed to Address Undisbursed Balances in Expired Grant Accounts
  Hurricane Katrina: Continuing Debris Removal and Disposal Issues
• Military Personnel: DOD's and the Coast Guard's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Programs Face Implementation and Oversight Challenges http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08924.pdf

Heritage Foundation

• Challenges on the U.S.–Mexico Border: A Panel Discussion
• The EU Must Express Solidarity with Georgia at Its Emergency Summit
• Europe's Catalogue of Failures in Georgia
• Exploring Concepts of Liberty in Islam
• Real Solutions for Challenges on the Mexico-U.S. Border: The Mérida Initiative
• Russia's Recognition of Independence for South Ossetia and Abkhazia Is Illegitimate: They Are Not Kosovo

Human Rights Watch

• Georgia: Satellite Images Show Destruction, Ethnic Attacks

Institute for Security Studies

• Democracy Yet to Take Root in Burundi

International Association of Chiefs of Police

• "To Protect and Defend": Challenges to Public Safety and Homeland Security Facing the Next U.S. President

International Crisis Group

• Burundi: Restarting Political Dialogue
• Russia vs Georgia: The Fallout
• Thailand: Political Turmoil and the Southern Insurgency

International Relations and Security Network

• Global Trends: A Perfect Storm
• ME Space Race Heats Up
• Nepal: Starting on the Wrong Foot
• The New Map of Georgia
• Peru on Alert
• Russia, Iran: Crisis of the West
• US: Cyberwar Turf Battle Continues

Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS)

• Recent Terror Blasts in India: How Should We Respond?
• Structural Roots of Authoritarianism in Pakistan

Jamestown Foundation

• NATO Ministerial Meeting Deals Gingerly with Russia's War on Georgia

Lexington Institute

• Sea-Based Missile Defense: Expanding the Options (A Joint Study by the Center for American Progress and the Lexington Institute)

Mother Jones

• Mission Creep: Interactive Map of US Military Presence Throughout the World

National Academies Press

• The Offshoring of Engineering: Facts, Unknowns, and Potential Implications

RAND

• Dangerous Thresholds: Managing Escalation in the 21st Century
• An Examination of Options to Reduce Underway Training Days Through the Use of Simulation
• Improving the Cost Estimation of Space Systems
• Insights on Aircraft Programmed Depot Maintenance: An Analysis of F-15 PDM

Henry L Stimson Center

• The Georgian Conflict: More than a US-Russia Showdown
• The Political Economy of Hydropower Dam Construction in Vietnam

Strategic Studies Institute

• The American Military Advisor: Dealing with Senior Foreign Officials in the Islamic World
• U.S. Counterterrorism in Sub-Saharan Africa: Understanding Costs, Cultures, and Conflicts

UN Office of Drugs and Crime

• Afghanistan Opium Survey 2008
• Map of Opium Cultivation in 2008 in Afghanistan

US Coast Guard

• Command, Control, Communication, Computers and Information Technology (C4&IT) Strategic Plan

US Institute of Peace

• Depoliticizing Zimbabwe’s Economy: Solutions for Two Million Percent

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• Amman Warms to Hamas
• The Future of U.S. Assistance to Egypt

Friday's Miscellany 08-22-2008

American Enterprise Institute
· Drill, Don't Redistribute http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.28506,filter.all/pub_detail.asp
· Why Groups Go to Extremes http://www.aei.org/books/bookID.959,filter.all/book_detail.asp

American Institute for Contemporary German Studies
· Global Governance and the Role of NGOs in International Peace and Security http://www.aicgs.org/documents/pubs/polrep33.pdf
· Overcoming the Lethargy: Climate Change, Energy Security, and the Case for a Third Industrial Revolution http://www.aicgs.org/documents/pubs/polrep34.pdf

Atlantic Council
· Restoring Georgia’s Sovereignty in Abkhazia http://www.acus.org/docs/Restoring%20Georgia's%20Sovereignty%20in%20Abkhazia.pdf

BASIC
· Afghanistan Update No. 39: 31 July - 14 August 2008 http://www.basicint.org/update/AFG080814.htm

Brookings Institution
· Musharraf’s Departure Is Good for Pakistan but Is It Too Late? http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2008/0818_pakistan_riedel.aspx
· Securing Georgia http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2008/0818_georgia_pascual.aspx

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
· Pakistan after Musharraf http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/0820_transcript_pakistan_grare1.pdf
· Russia-Georgia Crisis http://carnegieendowment.org/topic/index.cfm?fa=viewTopic&topic=2000129

Center for American Progress
· It’s Easy Being Green: Spare the Air? Share the Road http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2008/08/share_the_road.html
· Think Again: Return of the Cold War Punditocracy http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2008/08/cold_war_punditocracy.html
· U.S. Aid to Pakistan by the Numbers http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2008/08/pakistan_aid_numbers.html

Center for Catastrophe Preparedness and Response (CCPR)
· Predicting Organizational Crisis Readiness: Perspectives and Practices Toward a Pathway to Preparedness http://www.nyu.edu/ccpr/pubs/OrgPreparedness_Report_NYU_Light_8.18.08.pdf

Center for Security Studies (CSS)
· No. 37: "Switzerland and the EU: The Prospects of Bilateralism" http://www.isn.ethz.ch/pubs/ph/details.cfm?lng=en&id=90067
· No. 38: "Africa's Growing Strategic Relevance" http://www.isn.ethz.ch/pubs/ph/details.cfm?lng=en&id=56968

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
· Commentary: Ensuring U.S. Access to the International Space Station http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/080815_faith_georgia.pdf
· Commentary: Pakistan after Musharraf: Trouble and Opportunity http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/080820_schaffer.musharaf.pdf
· Commentary: The Georgia War and the Century of "Real Power" http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/080817_cordesman_georgia.pdf
· CSIS Resources on the Conflict in Georgia http://www.csis.org/georgiaconflict/
· Issues & Insights Vol. 08 - No. 09 - August 20, 2008 http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/issuesinsights_v08n09.pdf
o Next Generation Views on Preventive Diplomacy: The Role of the ASEAN Regional Forum
· Issues & Insights Vol. 08 - No. 10 - August 20, 2008 http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/issuesinsights_v08n10.pdf
o U.S.-China Strategic Dialogue
· Issues & Insights Vol. 08 - No. 11 - August 20, 2008 http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/issuesinsights_v08n11.pdf
o U.S.-Japan-China Relations in the Year 2020
· US Security Interests After Musharraf http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_pubs/task,view/id,4810/type,1/

Central Asia-Caucasus Institute
· Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst v. 10, no. 16, August 20, 2008 http://www.cacianalyst.org/files/080820Analyst.pdf
o Russia, Georgia and South Ossetia: Notes on a War
o Russia’s Disinformation Campaign Over South Ossetia
o Russia’s Invasion of Georgia: Bleak Prospects for the South Caucasus Guam and the Georgian War

Combating Terrorism Center
CTC Sentinel, v. 1, no. 9, August 2008 http://ctc.usma.edu/sentinel/CTCSentinel_Vol1Iss9.pdf
· “The Sakinah Campaign and Internet Counter-Radicalization in Saudi Arabia” “Pursuing Al-Qa`ida into Diyala Province”
· “Jama`at a-Furqara’: A Domestic Terrorist Threat to the United States?” “Key Factors for the Recent Growth of the Afghan Insurgency”
· “A Preliminary Assessment of Counter-Radicalization in the Netherlands”
· “Curtailing Illicit and Terrorist Activity in Algeria’s Tamanrasset”
· “Countering Terrorism in an Unstable Democracy: Mauritania’s Political Crisis”
· “Saudi Arabia’s Sectarian Ambivalence”
· “After Action Report: Assessing Acceptable Corruption in Iraq”

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
· Foreign Policy and Political Nominating Conventions http://www.cfr.org/publication/16992/foreign_policy_and_political_nominating_conventions.html?breadcrumb=%2Fpublication%2Fby_type%2Fbackgrounder

Director of National Intelligence (DNI)
· A letter from the Director of National Intelligence & Attorney General to Sen. Reid & Sen. McConnell on S. 2035 - the "Free Flow of Information Act of 2008" http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/mediashield/ag-odni-letter082208.pdf
· related information is available at http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/media-shield.htm

EU Institute for Security Studies
· E Pluribus Unum: Decision-Makers and decision-Making in Iran http://www.iss.europa.eu/index.php?id=18&no_cache=1&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=1016&tx_ttnews[backPid]=1&cHash=638718a3e1
· Russia and Georgia: European Destinies http://www.iss.europa.eu/index.php?id=214&no_cache=1&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=1096&tx_ttnews[backPid]=1&cHash=c22d325738
· Worst case: Escalation of the Unresolved Conflict in Georgia http://www.iss.europa.eu/index.php?id=214&no_cache=1&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=1097&tx_ttnews[backPid]=1&cHash=47264d11f3

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
· 21st Century Socialism in Latin America http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200808.radu.21centurysocialismlatinamerica.html
· A Clarifying Act of Violence: Russia, Georgia, and The West http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200808.sicherman.clarifyingactrussiageorgia.html
· In Havana, Waiting for Obama or for Putin? http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200808.lee.havanaobamaputin.html

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· Chemical Safety Board: Improvements in Management and Oversight Are Needed http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08864r.pdf
· PBGC Assets: Implementation of New Investment Policy Will Need Stronger Board Oversight http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08667.pdf
· Supply Chain Security: CBP Works with International Entities to Promote Global Customs Security Standards and Initiatives, but Challenges Remain http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08538.pdf

Heritage Foundation
· Europe's Catalogue of Failures in Georgia http://www.heritage.org/Research/Europe/wm2033.cfm
· Fighting for Freedom in Rural Peru: "ALBA Houses" Threaten Democracy http://www.heritage.org/Research/LatinAmerica/bg2173.cfm
· How Do U.S. Foreign Aid Recipients Vote at the U.N.? Against the U.S. http://www.heritage.org/Research/InternationalOrganizations/bg2171.cfm
· Hugo Chávez's Andean Offensive http://www.heritage.org/Research/LatinAmerica/wm2027.cfm
· People, Growth, And Reform: China's Uncertain Future http://www.heritage.org/Research/AsiaandthePacific/wm2032.cfm
· Russia-Georgia War Highlights Need for Directed-Energy Defenses http://www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/wm2030.cfm
· Russian Forces in the Georgian War: Preliminary Assessment and Recommendations http://www.heritage.org/Research/RussiaandEurasia/wm2031.cfm
· The Sound of Silence: The Decline of the Voice of America in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia http://www.heritage.org/Research/PublicDiplomacy/wm2029.cfm
· Who Serves in the U.S. Military? The Demographics of Enlisted Troops and Officers http://www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/cda08-05.cfm

Human Rights Watch
· China: Hosting Olympics a Catalyst for Human Rights Abuses http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2008/08/22/china19664.htm
· Georgia: Civilians Killed by Russian Cluster Bomb ‘Duds’ http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2008/08/20/georgi19660.htm
· Getting Away With Murder: 50 Years of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act http://hrw.org/backgrounder/2008/india0808/india0808webwcover.pdf
· India: Repeal Armed Forces Special Powers Act http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2008/08/18/india19628.htm
· Turkey: Support Justice in Darfur http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2008/08/15/sudan19629.htm

Institute for Security Studies
· Lawful and Unlawful Community Involvement In The Fight Against Crime http://www.issafrica.org/index.php?link_id=5&slink_id=6517&link_type=12&slink_type=12&tmpl_id=3

International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ICSR)
· Seven Years After 9/11: Al-Qaida's Strengths and Vulnerabilities http://icsr.info/files/ICSR%20Richard%20Barret%20Paper.pdf

International Crisis Group
· Burundi: Restarting Political Dialogue http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=5632&l=1
· Russia vs Georgia: The Fallout http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=5636&l=1
· War in Georgia website http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=5623&l=1

International Relations and Security Network
· Cuba's Emerging Leverage http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=19318
· Iraqi Christians: Round trip to Death Street http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=19329
· Letters from Georgia: Nationalism and Fear http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=19334
· Mauritania Coup a Blow http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=19312
· Russian Military, Fighting to Reform http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=19313

Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies
· Recent Terror blasts in India: How Should We Respond? http://www.ipcs.org/newIpcsSeminars2.jsp?action=showView&kValue=2665
· Structural Roots of Authoritarianism in Pakistan http://www.ipcs.org/newIpcsSeminars2.jsp?action=showView&kValue=2669

Jamestown Foundation
· Special Coverage from Tbilisi http://www.jamestown.org/news_details.php?news_id=345

Mercyhurst College Institute for Intelligence Studies
· The Analyst's Style Manual http://www.mciis.org/Books/MCIIS%20Style%20Manual%20June%202008.pdf

National Academies Press
· Energy Futures and Urban Air Pollution: Challenges for China and the United States http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12001&utm_medium=etmail&utm_source=National%20Academies%20Press&utm_campaign=Eblast%3a+China+8.13.08&utm_content=Downloader&utm_term=
· U.S. Conventional Prompt Global Strike: Issues for 2008 and Beyond http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12061&utm_medium=etmail&utm_source=National%20Academies%20Press&utm_campaign=New%20from%20NAP%208.19.08&utm_content=Downloader&utm_term=

National Defense Intelligence College (NDIC)
· Registering the Human Terrain: a Valuation of Cadastre http://ndic.edu/press/pdf/10279.pdf

National Institute of Standards and Technology
· WTC 7 Investigation Finds Building Fires Caused Collapse http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/releases/wtc082108.html

National Research Council (NCR)
· Emerging Cognitive Neuroscience and Related Technologies http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12177#toc

National Security Archive
· 1998 Missile Strikes on Bin Laden May Have Backfired http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB253/index.htm
· PR Push for Iraq War Preceded Intelligence Findings: "White Paper" Drafted before NIE even Requested http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB254/index.htm

RAND
· Insights on Aircraft Programmed Depot Maintenance: An Analysis of F-15 PDM http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2008/RAND_TR528.pdf
· The State of U.S. Railroads: A Review of Capacity and Performance Data http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2008/RAND_TR603.pdf
· The Weighted Airman Promotion System: Standardizing Test Scores http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2008/RAND_MG678.pdf

Securing America's Future Energy
· $120 Oil and Beyond: An Update http://www.secureenergy.org/files/files/837_SAF_996_New%20Westcott%20Report_v08_ELEC.pdf

Stanley Foundation
· Actualizing the Responsibility to Protect: 43rd Conference on the United Nations of the Next Decade http://www.stanleyfoundation.org/publications/report/UNND808.pdf
· Great Expectations http://www.stanleyfoundation.org/publications/pdb/GreatExpectationsPDB808.pdf
· The United Nations and the Responsibility to Protect http://www.stanleyfoundation.org/publications/pab/LuckPAB808.pdf
· US Nuclear Weapons, Force Posture, and Infrastructure http://www.stanleyfoundation.org/publications/pdb/Forced_Posture_PDB_808.pdf
· Value Cooperation, Not Antagonism: The Case for Functional-Based Cooperation http://www.stanleyfoundation.org/publications/pdb/FuncBasedCoopPDB_808.pdf

Henry L Stimson Center
· The North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004 http://www.stimson.org/eastasia/pdf/Morita-North_Korean_HR_Act_of_2004_Report-Aug%2008.pdf
· The Political Economy of Hydropower Dam Construction in Vietnam http://www.stimson.org/pub.cfm?ID=663
· Young American China Watchers' Views on China http://www.stimson.org/eastasia/pdf/Chinawatchers.pdf

US Institute of Peace
· Moving Beyond Relief: The Challenges of Settling Kenya's Internally Displaced http://www.usip.org/pubs/usipeace_briefings/2008/0815_kenya.html

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
· 2007-2008 Lecture Series: Senior U.S. Counterterrorism Officials http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC11.php?CID=485
· The Future of U.S. Assistance to Egypt http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2924
· Kirkuk Derails Iraq's Election Law http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2922
· Pakistan after Musharraf: Growing U.S. Challenges http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2923