Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Friday's Miscellany 03-14-2025 & 03-21-2025

 2430 Group

 38 North

 Al Jazeera Center for Studies

 AlphaGe

 American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

 Amnesty International

 Andrew Marshall Foundation 

 Arizona State University

  • Inter Populum: The Journal of Irregular Warfare and Special Operations v. 2, no. 2 Summer 2024 
    • Many Ways to Be Irregular: The Real Definition of Irregular Warfare and How It Helps Us
    • Seeing Red: A 2024 Guide to Assessing Resiliency and Resistance in Russia
    • Philosophy of the Individual and an American Theory of Special Operations
    • A Framework for Cyber Foreign Internal Defense
    • For Want of a Nail, the Kingdom Was Lost: The Struggle to Understand Irregular Warfare

 Army University Press

 Army War College Press

  • Parameters, Spring 2025 no. 55, no. 1 
    • Soldiering and Silences: Witnessing Child Sexual Abuse in Afghanistan 
    • Ukraine’s Not-So-Whole-of-Society at War: Force Generation in Modern Developed Societies
    • Russian Novel Nuclear Weapons and War-Fighting Capabilities
    • Measuring Interoperability Within NATO: Adapted Off-the-Shelf or Bespoke Solution?
    • Adapting US Defense Strategy to Great-Power Competition
    • Tyranny of the Inbox: Managing the US National Security Agenda
    • Bridging Sky and Sea: Joint Strategies for Medical Evacuation in the Indo-Pacific
    • Deploying and Supplying the Joint Force from a Contested Homeland
    • Civil-Military Relations and Democratic Backsliding
    • By All Means Available: Memoirs of a Life in Intelligence, Special Operations, and Strategy

 Asan Institute for Policy Studies

 Asia Society Policy Institute

 Asia-Pacific Leadership Network (APLN)

 Aspen Digital

 Atlantic Council

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

 Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

 Bruegel

 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

 Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

 Center for Cybersecurity Policy and Law

 Center for Global Development

 Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM)

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

  • Analyses in Security Policy
    • No: 356: Debating Nuclear Deterrence in Europe 
    • No: 357: Sports Investments and International Politics 

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

 Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST)         

 Chatham House

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

 Coalition

 Conference of Defense Associations Institute

Conflict Armament Research

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

 Council on Geostrategy

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

 Department of Defense Office of the Inspector General (DODIG)

  • DODIG-2025-075 Evaluation of the DoD’s Validation of Repair Parts Requested by the Ukrainian Armed Forces 
  • DODIG-2025-076 Audit of the Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor Program’s Pathway Transition 
  • DODIG-2025-078 Audit of End-Use Monitoring of Defense Articles Transferred to U.S. Southern Command Partner Nations 

 Department of State

 Department of the Army

 Egmont—The Royal Institute for International Relations

 EU Non-Proliferation Consortium

 European Council on Foreign Relations                 

 European Leadership Network (ELN)

 European Network for Economic and Fiscal Policy Research (EconPol)

 European Policy Centre (EPC) 

 European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)              

 Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)

 Foundation for Strategic Research (Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique) 

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

 Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP)

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

 Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

 Global Taiwan Institute

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

  • Department of Homeland Security: Key Areas for DHS Action and Congressional Oversight GAO-25-108165 
  • DOD Real Property: Actions Needed to Improve Oversight of Underutilized and Excess Facilities [Reissued with revisions on Mar. 11, 2025] GAO-25-106132 
  • Electronic Health Records: VA Making Incremental Improvements in New System but Needs Updated Cost Estimate and Schedule GAO-25-106874 
  • Federal Protective Service: Actions Needed to Address Critical Guard Oversight and Information System Problems GAO-25-108085 
  • Hurricane Hunter Aircraft:  NOAA and Air Force Should Take Steps to Meet Growing Demand for Reconnaissance Missions GAO-25-107210 
  • Improper Payments: Information on Agencies' Fiscal Year 2024 Estimates GAO-25-107753 
  • Military Readiness: Implementing GAO's Recommendations Can Help DOD Address Persistent Challenges Across Air, Sea, Ground, and Space Domains GAO-25-108104 
  • Mission-Critical Information Technology: Agencies Are Monitoring Selected Acquisitions for Cybersecurity and Privacy Risks GAO-25-106908 
  • National Nuclear Security Administration: Reporting on Industrial Base Risks Needs Improvement GAO-25-107215 
  • National Nuclear Security Administration: Explosives Program Is Mitigating Some Supply Chain Risks but Should Take Additional Actions to Enhance Resiliency GAO-25-107016 
  • Navy Shipbuilding: a Generational Imperative for Systemic Change GAO-25-108136 
  • Program Integrity: Agencies and Congress Can Take Actions to Better Manage Improper Payments and Fraud Risks GAO-25-108172 
  • Small Business Contracting: National Nuclear Security Administration Needs Increased Contractor Oversight to Reduce Reporting Errors GAO-25-106820 
  • Veterans Affairs: Information on Protected Research Time for Clinician-Scientists GAO-25-107360 

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

 Henry L. Stimson Center

 Heritage Foundation

 Hoover's China Leadership Monitor

  • China Leadership Monitor, Spring 2025, no. 83 
    • Can Xi Jinping Control the PLA?
    • Burying Deng: Xi Jinping and the Abnormalization of Chinese Politics
    • From Purge to Control: A Recent Pivot in Xi Jinping’s Anti-Corruption Crackdown
    • Counter-Espionage and State Security: The Changing Role of China’s Ministry of State Security
    • What We Know About Public Opinion in China, and Why It Matters for Policymakers
    • The Sino-Russian Partnership: Cooperation without Coordination
    • CLM Insights Interview with Robert Suettinger

 Hoover Institution

  • Strategika

 Hudson Institute

 Human Rights Watch

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

 Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

 Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP)

 Institute for the Study of War

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

 International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

 International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

 International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR)

 International Crisis Group

 Jamestown Foundation

  • China Brief, March 15, 2025, v. 25, no. 5 
    • The Increasing Insignificance of the Two Sessions
    • The Increasing Insignificance of the Two Sessions
    • Xi Struggles to Keep Military Construction Reform on Course at Two Sessions
    • Fujian Unveils Incentives for Militia Training for a Cross-Strait Campaign
    • PRC Uses Legal Warfare to Support Maritime Blockade Against Taiwan
    • PLA Factions and the Erosion of Xi’s Power Over the Military

 Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) Press

 Manhattan Institute

 Mercator Institute for China Studies

 Middle East Institute (MEI)

 MITRE

 National Academies Press 

 National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) 

 National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR)

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

 National Security Archive

 National Security AI

 National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)

 NATO Defense College

 Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI)

  • CMSI Note 13: PLA Navy Enhances Realistic Combat Training: Observations of PLA Navy Operations Around Taiwan 
  • CMSI Note 14: Bridges Over Troubled Waters: Shuiqiao-Class Landing Barges in PLA Navy Amphibious Operations 

 Naval War College Stockton Center for International Law

 New America

 Niskanen Center

 Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)              

 Observer Research Foundation

 Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)

 Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)

 Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

 Pew Research

 RAND Corporation

 Rhodium Group

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

 S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

  • Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA), March 2025, v. 17, no. 2 
    • The Nexus Of Misinformation, Disinformation and Conspiracy Theories With Violent Extremism
    • Disinformation and the Battle for Influence and Power in the Emerging Post-Assad Syria
    • From Disinformation to Violence: The UK Far Right and 2024 Riots
    • Disinformation, Conspiracy Theories and Violent Extremism in South Asia
    • The Question of Misinformation-triggered Violence in Singapore: The Interplay between Misinformation, Faultlines and Violence

 SAGE

 Special Inspector General Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

  • SIGAR 25-15-FA Department of Defense's Afghan National Tracking System Support Program: Audit of Costs Incurred by Raytheon Blackbird Technologies Inc. 
  • SIGAR 25-16-AR Public International Organizations in Afghanistan: State and USAID Agreements with PIOs Need Strengthening to Ensure U.S. Funds are Not Diverted to Terrorist Groups 

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

 Swedish Defense Research Agency

 Swedish Institute of International Affairs

 Taylor & Francis

 Toda Peace Institute

 Transnational Institute (TNI)

 UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

 University of Western Australia (UWA) Defence and Security Institute 

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

 World Bank