Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Friday's Miscellany 10-18-2024 & 10-25-2024

 38 North

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

 Al Jazeera Centre for Studies 

 American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

 American Security Project (ASP)

 Amnesty International

 Asia Foundation

 Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)

 Atlantic Council

 Australian Army Research Center

 Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES)

 Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

 Brookings Institution

 Bündnis Entwicklung Hilft / Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict

 Canadian Parliament

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

 Cato Institute

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

 Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

 Centre for Information Resilience (CIR)

 Chatham House 

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

 Clingendael Institute Netherlands Institute of International Relations 

 College of Europe

 Congress. House. Judiciary Committee

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

 Council on Geostrategy

 Council on Strategic Risks (CSR)

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

 Defense Intelligence Agency (CIA)

 Department of Defense (DOD)

 Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

  • DODIG-2025-005 Report Of Investigation: Navy Cyberwarfare Development Group U.S. Navy Fort Meade, Maryland 
  • DODIG-2025-007 Audit of the DoD’s Execution of Funds to Assist Ukraine 
  • DODIG-2025-008 Evaluation of Medical Care Provided to Navy Sea, Air, and Land (SEAL) Candidates 

 Egmont: The Royal Institute for International Relations

 Energy Information Administration (EIA)

 European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Hybrid CoE)

 European Council on Foreign Relations

 European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

 Federal Reserve Back of New York

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (Ulkopoliittinen instituutti)

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)                

 French Institute of International Relations

 German Council on Foreign Relations

 German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

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

 German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

 Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

 Globsec

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

  • Army Watercraft: Actions Needed to Optimize Small but Critical Fleet GAO-25-106387 
  • Artificial Intelligence: Generative AI Training, Development, and Deployment Considerations GAO-25-107651 
  • Coast Guard: Information on Medical Facilities GAO-25-107073 
  • DOD Financial Management: Action Needed to Enhance Workforce Planning GAO-25-105286 
  • Federal Law Enforcement: Criminal Sexual Acts while Serving in Official Capacity (2024 Update) GAO-25-107684 
  • Federal Workforce: Actions Needed to Improve Recruitment and Retention in Alaska, Hawaii, and U.S. Territories GAO-25-106527 
  • Identity Verification: GSA Needs to Address NIST Guidance, Technical Issues, and Lessons Learned GAO-25-106640 
  • Tactical Aircraft: Operation and Maintenance Spending Varies by System, and Availability Generally Does Not Meet Service Goals GAO-25-107870 

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

 Heritage Foundation

 Hudson Institute

 Human Rights Watch

 Independent Review Panel Report of 2024 Attempted Assassination

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

 Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

 Institute for Integrated Transitions (IFIT) 

 Institute for Science and International Security 

 Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP) 

 Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) 

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

 Institute for the Study of War

 Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA)

 International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

 International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

 International Crisis Group

 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

 International Peace Institute (IPI)

 Irregular Warfare Center (IWC)

 Italian Institute for International Political Studies

 Jamestown Foundation

  • China Brief, October 18, 2024, v. 24, no. 20 
    • Discourse Dimensions of the PLA’s Joint Sword 2024–B Drills
    • Stimulus Measures Expose Weakness Since Third Plenum
    • Xi Jinping’s Quantitative Easing Unlikely to Save Economy
    • Xi Jinping Has Further Boosted the Military-Industrial Group of China
    • Part II: Diplomacy with Chinese Characteristics: PRC Consulate Gray Zone ‘Pop-up’ Events in New York

 Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

  • Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest, v. 38, no. 3, 2024 
    • Microelectronics Packaging at APL: Delivering Custom Devices for Critical Missions
    • Modeling Nonlinear and Dynamic Mechanical Behavior
    • Rapid Prototyping: Accelerating the Design Process
    • From Drafting Boards to Virtual Reality: The Evolution of Mechanical Engineering and Design
    • Advanced Development and Fabrication at APL: Machines, Components, and Processes
    • Composite Materials: Enabling APL to Meet Complex Requirements for Critical Systems
    • Perspectives on Engineering Design and Fabrication at APL
  • Whatever Happened to Nuclear Winter? 

 Joint Cybersecurity Advisory

 Kiel Institute for the World Economy

 Marine Corps University Middle East Studies

 McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure

 Migration Information Source 

 National Academies Press  

 National Defense University Press

  • China’s Forever War: What If a Taiwan Invasion Fails? 
  • Joint Force Quarterly, 115 (4th Quarter 2024) 
    • The Key to Arctic Dominance: Establishing an Arctic-Focused Subordinate Unified Command
    • The Implications of the New Security Environment on the National Health Systems Enterprise
    • CBRN Defense Readiness Reporting
    • Winners of the 2024 Essay Competitions
    • Giving Our “Paper Tiger” Real Teeth: Fixing the U.S. Military’s Plans for Contested Logistics Against China
    • Considering the Utility of Modern Blockade in a Protracted Conflict With China
    • Stop Talking to Yourself: Military Recruiting in the Modern Age
    • One Hundredth Anniversary of the Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy: A Tribute in Three Verses
    • Ethical Leadership Development: Highlights from the Past and a Glimpse of the Future
    • The Profession of Arms: What Scholars, Practitioners, and Others of Note Have Had to Say
    • The Need for U.S. Stability Policing
    • Better in Pairs: Divide the Indo-Pacific Theater in Half
    • From Sparta to Hostomel: The Enduring Role of Joint Forcible Entry Operations
    • The Joint Functions: Theory, Doctrine, and Practice
  • Thirty Years of the Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction 

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

 National Intelligence Council (NIC)

 National Security Space Association (NSSA)

 NATO Defense College

 Naval War College

  • Naval War College Review, Spring 2024, v. 77, no. 2 
    • China’s Naval Diplomacy in the Baltic Sea at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century—A Lost Window of Opportunity
    • NATO and Emerging Technologies—The Alliance’s Shifting Approach to Military Innovation
    • Fighting to Supply the Fight—Assessing Approaches for Overcoming Contested Logistics
    • A Special Operations Approach to Lawfare
    • The Study and Utility of Naval History
    • Reflections on Reading

 Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI)

  • CMSI Note #10: China’s Summer of 2024:  The Missing Chapter 

 New America

 Norwegian Defence Research Establishment

 Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (NUPI)

 Observer Research Foundation

 Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)

 Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)

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

 Pew Research Center

 Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

 RAND Corporation

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

 Scandinavian Military Studies

  • Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies, 2024, v. 7, no. 1 
    • Language Lessons Learned? NATO Requirements and Norwegian Officer Cadets
    • Multifaceted Conscription: A Comparative Study of Six European Countries
    • Creating the Joint Arctic Command: Cutting Cost or Preparing for the Future? Strategic Culture, Arctic Security and Strategic Reasoning within the Kingdom of Denmark
    • Swedish Veterans after Bosnia: The Relationship Between Military Deployment and Labour Market Marginalisation
    • Odd Couples’ Win-Sets: Maintaining U.S. Basing Rights Through New Two-Level Game Negotiations With Greenland
    • Hybrid Warfare at Sea? Russia, Svalbard and the Arctic
    • Resisting – But What? How Finnish National Defence University Students Make Sense of Equality Training
    • Bolstering the Bastion: The Changing Pattern of Russia’s Military Exercises in the High North

 Secure World Foundation

 Simon Fraser University

  • Journal for Deradicalization, Fall 2024, no. 40 
    • The Power Threat Meaning Framework: Implications for Practice in Preventing Extremist Violence
    • Podcast Patriots: How Far-Right Women Podcasters Shaped the Narrative Around the January 6 Insurrection
    • Talking About Violent Extremism: Experiences of Canadian Secondary School Teachers in Four Metropolitan Areas
    • Approaching P/CVE through Building Trust and Meaningful Relationships with Muslim Communities
    • Where Are They Now?: The Costs and Benefits of Doxxing Far-Right Extremists
    • Socioeconomic Grievances, Opportunities, and Frames: Conceptualizing Marginalization and Islamist Radicalization in Post-2011 Egypt and Tunisia, and Implications for PCVE

 Small Wars Journal

 South African Institute for International Affairs (SAIIA)

 Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS)

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

 Sudan Conflict Observatory

 Taylor & Francis

 Toda Peace Institute

 UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation

 UK Ministry of Defense

 UK Parliament. House of Lords, International Relations and Defense Committee

 United Nations

 UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

 U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission

 US Department of the Treasury

 U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP)

 US Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC)

 United States Studies Centre

 University of Texas, Austin

  • Texas National Security Review, 7, no. 4, Fall 2024 
    • Evolving Challenges, Enduring Principles
    • Stuck Onshore: Why the United States Failed to Retrench from Europe during the Early Cold War
    • Cyber Effects in Warfare: Categorizing the Where, What, and Why
    • Bringing Politics Back In: The Neglected Explanation of the Oct. 7 Surprise Attack
    • Filling the Void Left by Great-Power Retrenchment: Russia, Central Asia, and the U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan
    • Public Service and Counter-Terrorism: A Conversation with Christine Abizaid

 White House

 Wilson Center