Friday's Miscellany 02-06-2009

American Enterprise Institute
· Prepare to Deal with Discontinuities

American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)
· Bioenergy in the United States and Germany
· Climate and Energy Policies in the United States and Germany: Lessons for the Future
· Climate Change and Energy Security: Lessons Learned
· From Davos To Munich and Beyond
· Sixty Years After the Founding of the Jewish State: Are German-Israeli Relations Still "Special"?
· Short-Term Solutions to the Climate and Energy Challenge

Atlantic Council of the U.S.
· Alliance Reborn: An Atlantic Compact for the 21st Century

Brookings Institution
· A Civilian "Surge" for Iraq
· Double Jeopardy: What the Climate Crisis Means for the Poor
· Europe, the United States, and Middle Eastern Democracy: Repairing the Breach
· Overcoming Obstacles to U.S.-China Cooperation on Climate Change
· Stabilizing Communities: A Federal Response to the Secondary Impacts of the Foreclosure Crisis
· Turning the Tide in Afghanistan: A Discussion with Sen. Joseph Lieberman

Canadian Defence Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)
· Contemporary Piracy off the Horn of Africa

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP)
· China’s Evolving Legal System
· Talk Nuclear With Iran Now, With a Time Limit

Center for American Progress
· Recovery and Reinvestment 101
· Role of the U.S. in the World Order

CATO
· Troubled Neighbor: Mexico's Drug Violence Poses a Threat to the United States

Center for Security Studies (CSS)
· No. 47: Pakistan: Anatomy of a Crisis, Skeletal Opportunities
· No. 46: The French White Paper on Defense and National Security
· No. 45: The Growing Importance of Civilians in Armed Conflict

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)
· The Case for Long-Range Strike: 21st Century Scenarios

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
· Commentary: Georgian Military Reform - An Alternative View
· Commentary: The Iraqi Elections: The Preliminary Results
· Commentary: Keeping the Iraqi Elections in Perspective
· The Future Combat System: What Future Can the Army Afford?
· The "Gaza War": A Strategic Analysis
· A Roadmap for a Secure, Low-Carbon Energy Economy: Managing Energy Security and Climate Change
· Violence in the North Caucasus: Fall/Winter 2008

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
· Guide to the Analysis of Insurgency

Chatham House
· Against the Gathering Storm: Securing Sudan's Comprehensive Peace Agreement
· Food Futures: Rethinking UK Strategy

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
· Estimated Macroeconomic Effects of the Inouye-Baucus Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute to H.R. 1
· H.R. 1, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
· Monthly Budget Review

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
· China's Military Power
· Countering China's Military Modernization
· Preparing for Sudden Change in North Korea

Department of Defense (DoD)
· DoD Instruction 3020.47, DoD Participation in the National Exercise Program (NEP), January 29, 2009 · DoD Instruction 3115.08, Collection of Information on Non-U.S. Persons Outside the United States at the Request of U.S. Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs), January 14, 2009
· DoD Instruction 3115.11, DoD Intelligence Human Capital Management Operations, January 22, 2009
· DoD Instruction 5132.13, Staffing of Security Cooperation Organizations (SCOs) and the Selection and Training of Security Cooperation Personnel, January 9, 2009
· DoD Instruction 5240.04, Counterintelligence (CI) Investigations, February 2, 2009
· DoD Instruction 6055.17, DoD Installation Emergency Management (IEM) Program, January 13, 2009

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)
· D-2009-050 Distribution of Funds and the Validity of Obligations for the Management of the Afghanistan Security Forces Fund Phase II, February 5, 2009

Department of Homeland Security Inspector General
· Management of Department of Homeland Security International Activities and Interests

Director of National Intelligence (DNI)
· 500 Day Plan Follow-Up Report
o Part 1
o Part 2
· An Overview of the United States Intelligence Community for the 111th Congress

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
· Abraham Lincoln: Leadership and Democratic Statesmanship in Wartime

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· Aviation Security: Status of Transportation Security Inspector Workforce. GAO-09-123R
· Broadcasting to Cuba: Actions Are Needed to Improve Strategy and Operations GAO-09-127
· Federal Information System Controls Audit Manual (FISCAM) GAO-09-232G
· Surface Transportation: Clear Federal Role and Criteria-Based Selection Process Could Improve Three National and Regional Infrastructure Programs. GAO-09-219

Henry L. Stimson Center
· A Prerequisite to Smart Power
· The New Relationship between the Executive and Legislative Branches
· Pentagon Releases New Document on Space Operations

Heritage Foundation
· Building a Global Freedom Coalition with a New "Security for Freedom Fund"
· Chinese Foreign Investment: Insist on Transparency
· The Demise of the U.N. Procurement Task Force Threatens Oversight at the U.N.
· Iran's Satellite Launch Underscores Growing Military Threat
· Latin America and the U.S.: Building a Partnership for the Western Hemisphere

Hudson Institute
· "Chief Culprit: Stalin's Grand Design to Start World War II" (Media clips)
· Hudson Institute Economic Report--February 6, 2009

Institute for Security Studies (ISS)
· Burundi: The End of the Tunnel?
· Kenya – A Year after the Crisis: The Quest for Electoral Reform and Transitional Justice
· The (Northern) Uganda Peace Process: An Update on Recent Developments

Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center
· News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict January 27 – February 3, 2009

International Relations and Security Network
· America’s Role in East Asia
· A Brave New Dangerous World
· China: New Defense Posture
· Financial Storm Re-Shaping Europe
· France's Afghan Dilemmas
· Gaza: The Syria-Israel Front
· Iraq's Trend-Setting Elections
· Israel's Political Fragmentation
· Kyrgyz Parliament Mulls US Air Base Closing Bill
· Somalia Sees Hope in New Leader
· Zimbabwe: Wrong Way, Right Way

Jamestown Foundation
China Brief February 4, 2009, v. 9, no. 3
· Personnel Changes in PLA Ranks: Chen Xiaogong
· Beijing’s Carrot-and-Stick Strategy to Deter Social Instability
· China’s Economic Downturn: Employment is The Critical Issue
· China's 2008 Defense White Paper: The View from Taiwan
· Beijing’s Responses to Falling Oil Prices

Joint Chiefs of Staff
· Joint Publication - JP 3-14, Space Operations, 06 January 2009

Lexington Institute
· Defense Companies Have Many Options in a Downturn

Middle East Institute (MEI)
· The Iranian Revolution at 30
· Water Issues in the Gulf: Time for Action Water Issues in the Gulf: Time for Action

Migration Policy Institute
· Collateral Damage: An Examination of ICE’s Fugitive Operation Program

National Academies Press
· Future of the Nuclear Security Environment

Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR)
· Hard Lessons: The Iraq Reconstruction Experience

Peterson Institute
· Buy American: Bad for Jobs, Worse for Reputation

Project on National Security Reform (PNSR)
· Concept Paper: The National Security Planning & Execution Management System (NSPEMS)

RAND
· Adjusting to Global Economic Change: The Dangerous Road Ahead
· The Challenge of Domestic Intelligence in a Free Society: A Multidisciplinary Look at the Creation of a U.S. Domestic Counterterrorism Intelligence Agency
· The Department of the Navy's Civilian Acquisition Workforce: An Analysis of Recent Trends
· The Economic Cost of Methamphetamine Use in the United States, 2005
· Maritime Piracy: Reasons, Dangers and Solutions
· Neighborhood Effects on Crime and Youth Violence: The Role of Business Improvement Districts in Los Angeles
· Radical Islam in East Africa

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)
· Building Partner Capacity/Security Force Assistance: A New Structural Paradigm
· The Serpent in Our Garden: Al-Qa'ida and the Long War

University of Pennsylvania
· The Global "Go-To Think Tanks": The Leading Public Policy Research Organizations in the World [2008]

US Agency for International Development (USAID)
· Agricultural Recovery Responses in Post-Pandemic Situations Arising from Major Animal and Plant Diseases
· Case Study of the Poultry and Grape/Raisin Subsectors in Afghanistan: Guided Case Studies in Value Chain Development for Conflict-Affected Environments
· Global Tuberculosis Control: Surveillance, Planning, Financing -- WHO report 2008
· Hygiene Improvement and Avian Influenza
· Initial Management of Common Emergencies
· Mexico Rural Prosperity and Conservation Initiative: Final Report
· Peru Alternative Development Program (PDA) Final Report
· Research Guide: Transition Initiatives
· USAID Country Health Statistical Report: Afghanistan
· USAID Country Health Statistical Report: Bolivia
· USAID Country Health Statistical Report: Haiti
· USAID Country Health Statistical Report: Pakistan
· USAID Country Health Statistical Report: West Bank & Gaza

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
· Another Israeli Election Down to the Wire
· Can Obama Break Turkey's EU Impasse?
· Fixing UNRWA: Repairing the UN's Troubled System of Aid to Palestinian Refugees
· Qatar Challenges Washington on Hamas

World Security Institute
China Security Autumn 2008 v, 4, no, 4
· The Years of Transformation by Ding Gang
· Looking Beyond Bush by Chas Freeman , Zha Xiaogang , Niu Jitao
· China: Creditor to the Rich by Brad Setser A Crisis of Faith by Liu Peng
· Cures that Kill by Michael Barr Challenges to American Dominance in Oil Finance by Roland Tong
· Big Brother is Watching by Timothy Savage

IC 500 Day Plan Follow-Up Report [Full report]

The Intelligence Community [IC] recently released a quick status update to their 500 Day Plan and have now released the complete 500 Day Plan Follow-Up Report in 2 parts. They can be found at http://www.dni.gov/500-day-plan.htm or the direct parts are :
Part 1
Part 2

In April 2007 the IC leaders got together to develop their initial 100 Day Plan for Integration and Collaboration designed to "jump-start the transformation process and build momentum for change." The 500 Day plan was intended to expand the original initiatives and increase IC member participation. The previous plans can be found as follows:

• Key accomplishments for the 500 Day Plan initiatives
• United States Intelligence Community 500 Day Plan for INTEGRATION and COLLABORATION
• United States Intelligence Community (IC) 100 Day Plan Follow Up Report
• United States Intelligence Community (IC) 100 Day Plan for INTEGRATION and COLLABORATION

China's 2008 Defense White paper - PDF version

For those who might be blocked from .CN sites or wanted a copy as a single file, the Federal of American Scientists (FAS) has made a PDF version of the new China 2008 Defense White Paper and it is available at http://www.fas.org/programs/ssp/nukes/2008DefenseWhitePaper_Jan2009.pdf

As a reminder, the official site and version are:
2008 China Defense White paper

Previous ones can be found at http://china.org.cn/e-white/index.htm as follows

• 2006
• 2004
• 2002
• 2000
• 1998

Intel Community overview for the 111th Congress

The Director of National Intelligence has released the Intelligence
Community's report "An Overview of the United States Intelligence
Community for the 111th Congress."

Hard Lessons: The Iraq Reconstruction Experience

The Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) has just posted their new publication - "Hard Lessons: The Iraq Reconstruction Experience." It can be bought from GPO or downloaded from http://www.sigir.mil/hardlessons/default.aspx

"Since the March 2003 invasion, the Congress appropriated about $50 billion in taxpayer dollars for Iraq's relief and reconstruction. This generous provision funded a continuously evolving rebuilding program that sought, among other things, to restore Iraq's essential services, establish new security forces, create a free-market economy, and put the country on the path to achieving an effective democracy. Some of the initiatives succeeded but others did not. Hard Lessons, the first comprehensive account of the Iraq reconstruction effort, reviews in detail the United States' rebuilding program, shedding light on why certain programs worked while others fell short of goals."

White paper: China's National Defense in 2008

China has posted its latest [2008] Defense White paper

Previous ones can be found at http://china.org.cn/e-white/index.htm or

as follows:

2006

2004

2002

2000

1998

Friday's Miscellany 01-30-2009

American Enterprise Institute
**Afghanistan's Presidential Election
**IMPACT's Impact

Amnesty International
**Cameroon: Impunity Underpins Persistent Abuse
**Double Misfortune: Deeping Human Rights Crisis in Chad

British American Security Information Council (BASIC)
**Politics Around US Tactical Nuclear Weapons in European Host States

Brookings Institution
**Converting Traction in 2008 to Action in 2009: Forging a Metro-Federal Partnership
**A Budget We Can Believe In A Budget We Can Believe In Corruption and the Global Financial Crisis
**Europe, the United States, and Middle Eastern Democracy: Repairing the Breach
**Homeland Security Agenda for the Obama Administration
**How Not to Lose Afghanistan: Breaking the Taliban’s Momentum
**India's Financial Secret Weapon
**The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Beyond Gaza
**The Obama Orders: A Quick and Dirty Analysis
**Reversing the Decline: An Agenda for U.S.-Russian Relations in 2009

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP)
**Clearing a Path for Guantanamo Returnees: Rehabilitation and Risk-Assessment
**Iraq Prepares for Upcoming Provincial Elections

Center for American Progress
**The Fractured Shia of Iraq: Understanding the Tensions within Iraq’s Majority
Strategic Persistence

Center for New American Security (CNAS)
**Tell Me Why We’re There? Enduring Interests in Afghanistan (and Pakistan)

Center for Security Policy
**Mexico's Glass House

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
**Alliance Reborn: An Atlantic Compact for the 21st Century: The Washington NATO Project
**The Afghan-Pakistan War: The Rising Threat, 2002-2008
**Civil Affairs: Literature Review
**Civil Affairs in Bosnia
**Civil Affairs in Desert Shield and Desert Storm
**Civil Affairs in the Dominican Republic
**Civil Affairs in El Salvador, Grenada, and Panama
**Commentary: Chasing the Currency Dragon
**Commentary: Getting it Right in Pakistan and Afghanistan
**Controlling Corruption in Local Government in Latin America
**Evaluating the Energy Security Implications of a Carbon-Constrained U.S. Economy
**Enhancing Stabilization and Reconstruction Operations: A Report of the Global Dialogue between the European Union and the United States
**Investing in a New Multilateralism: A Smart Power Approach to the United Nations
**NATO and Allied Civil Military Co-operation Doctrine, Operations, & Organization of Forces

Century Foundation
**A Plan to Extend Super-Fast Broadband Connections to All Americans

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
**Addressing the Ongoing Crisis in the Housing and Financial Markets
**H.R. 1, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
**The State of the Economy and Issues in Developing an Effective Policy Response

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
**Combating Maritime Piracy
**For Holbrooke, Situation in Pakistan, Afghanistan Is 'Dim and Dismal'
**Gloomy Portents for Global Trade
**Iraq’s Political Landscape
**Mitchell's Prospects for Lasting Israeli-Palestinian Accord 'Slim to None'
**The U.S. Economic Stimulus Plan

Defense Science Board (DSB)
**Permanent Task Force on Advisory Group on Defense Intelligence: Operations Research Applications for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance

Department of Defense (DOD)
**2009 Quadrennial Roles and Missions Review (QRM) Report to Congress

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)
**D-2009-041 Expeditionary Fire Support System and Internally Transportable Vehicle Programs, January 14, 2009
**D-2009-047 DoD Testing Requirements for Body Armor, January 29, 2009

Department of Homeland Security
**The Federal Preparedness Report

Director of National Intelligence (DNI)
**Intelligence Community 500 Day Plan Status Update
**Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) 101 - Intelligence Community Policy System
**Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) 902 - Global Maritime and Air Intelligence Integration
**Intelligence Community Policy Guidance (ICPG) 101.1 - Intelligence Community Directives and Policy Guidance
**Intelligence Community Policy Guidance (ICPG) 101.2 - Intelligence Community Standards
**Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) 501 - Discovery and Dissemination or Retrieval of **Information within the Intelligence Community

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
**La Familia: Another Deadly Mexican Syndicate
**The U.S. Elections and America’s Role in East Asia: Views from the Region— A Roundtable Discussion Report

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
**Developing Countries: The United States Has Not Fully Funded Its Share of Debt Relief, and the Impact of Debt Relief on Countries' Poverty-Reducing Spending Is Unknown GAO-09-162, January 26, 2009
**Electronic Health Records: DOD's and VA's Sharing of Information Could Benefit from Improved ManagementGAO-09-268, January 28, 2009
**Homeland Defense: Actions Needed to Improve Management of Air Sovereignty Alert Operations to Protect U.S. Airspace GAO-09-184, January 27, 2009
**Information Security: Further Actions Needed to Address Risks to Bank Secrecy Act Data. GAO-09-195, January 30
**Military Base Realignments and Closures: DOD Faces Challenges in Implementing Recommendations on Time and Is Not Consistently Updating Savings Estimates. GAO-09-217, January 30
**Military Training: Navy and Air Force Need to More Fully Apply Best Practices to Enhance Development and Management of Combat Skills Training GAO-09-220R, January 28, 2009
**Secure Border Initiative Fence Construction Costs GAO-09-244R, January 29, 2009
**Traumatic Brain Injury: Better DOD and VA Oversight Can Help Ensure More Accurate, Consistent, and Timely Decisions for the Traumatic Injury Insurance Program GAO-09-108, January 29, 2009
**Troubled Asset Relief Program: Status of Efforts to Address Transparency and Accountability Issues. GAO-09-296 January 30, 2009
**Update of State and Local Government Fiscal Pressures GAO-09-320R, January 26, 2009

Heritage Foundation
**Homeland Security Secretary Asks-Here Are Answers!
**Percent of GDP Defense Spending: Sustained Spending, Not Economic Stimulus
**Quadrennial Defense Review: Building Blocks for National Defense
**U.S.-India Strategic Partnership on Laser-Based

Henry L. Stimson Center
**Obama's Test: Bringing Order to the National Security Policy Process
**A Prerequisite to Smart Power

Homeland Security Council
**Planning Guidance for Response to a Nuclear Detonation: First Edition

Human Rights Watch
**"We Are Like Forgotten People": The Chin People of Burma: Unsafe in Burma, Unprotected in India

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)
**A Company’s Discretion Detects Large Iranian Valve Orders by Scrutinizing Items and End-Users Instead of Lists
**An Inside Look: India’s Procurement of Tributyl Phosphate (TBP) for its Unsafeguarded Nuclear Program
**Pakistan’s Illicit Procurement of Missile and Drone Equipment Using Multiple Financial Transactions

International Crisis Group
**Guinea-Bissau: Building a Real Stability Pact
**Iraq's Provincial Elections: The Stakes

International Relations and Security Network
**Ecuador: Back Door to America
**Global Risks 2009
**Nashi: A Youthful Approach to Power
**Russia Deepens Gas Hegemony
**Southeast Asia: U-turns, Downturns
**Turkey: 'Deep State' Conspiracy

Jamestown Foundation
Terrorism Focus January 28, 2009, v. 6, no, 3
**Al-Qaeda Leaders in the Arabian Peninsula Speak Out
**Pakistan’s Lashkar- e-Taiba Chooses Between Kashmir and the Global Jihad
**Afghanistan Deployment puts Germany in al-Qaeda’s Crosshairs
**Is Ankara Promoting Zaza Nationalism to Divide the Kurds?

Lexington Institute
**Listen to the Navy: The DDG-1000 Destroyer Is Not Needed

Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP)
**The Continuity of Obama’s Change

National Gang Intelligence Center (NGIC)
**National Gang Threat Assessment 2009

National Security Archive
**Jan Palach Week, 1989: The Beginning of the End for Czechoslovak Communism

National Security Council
**Countering Privacy off the Horn of Africa: Partnership & Action Plan

Peterson Institute for International Economics
**A Hypothetical History: Had Britain Entered EMU
**The IMF and the Global Crisis: Role and Reform

Pew Internet & American Life Project
**Generations Online in 2009

RAND
**Assessing Irregular Warfare: A Framework for Intelligence Analysis
**Data for DoD Manpower Policy Analysis
**Terrorists Can Think Strategically: Lessons Learned From the Mumbai Attacks

Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)
**Quarterly Report to Congress [January 2009]

Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR)
**Quarterly Report to Congress [January 2009]

Stanley Foundation
**Responsibility to Protect and Foreign Policy in the Next Administration

Strategic Studies Institute
**Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter

U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP)
**Islamic Peacemaking Since 9/11
**Recruitment of Rule of Law Specialists for the Civilian Response Corps

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
**Defining a 'Prediplomacy' Agenda for U.S.-Mideast Efforts
**Obama's Personal 'Public Diplomacy': A Very Preliminary Assessment
**Provincial Elections Kick Off Iraq's Year of Choices
**Realities of the UN in Lebanon
**Tough Choices on Hamas Prompt Arab Disarray