Friday's Miscellany 02-06-2026

 38 North

• Is Kim Jong Un Headed for “DPRK President” Title? 
• North Korea Takes Its Place at “Eurasian Charter” Table 
• Party Congress Preparations in Pyongyang 

 American Security Project (ASP)

• AI Threat Transparency Gap:  Risk Reporting Practices in the U.S. and China 
• An Open Letter to the Department of War: Safe and Effective Strategies to Counter Military Obesity 

 Amnesty International

• Ringing the Alarm Bells: Rising Authoritarian Practices and Erosion of Human Rights in the United States 

 Arctic Institute       

• The Arctic Institute's China Series Report 2025 
• What if? "Strategic Competition" vs. "Selective Cooperation"
• A Grand Illusion: America's Anti-China Arctic Policy Is Rooted in Paranoia and Political Bias, Not Strategic Reality
• Alaska, not Greenland, should worry the United States in the Arctic
• A Pragmatic Approach to Conceptual Divergences in Russia-China Relations: The Case of the Northern Sea Route
• Navigating Uncertainty: China-Russia Arctic Security Cooperation in a
• Game-Theoretic Framework
• From the Indus to the Ice: China, Pakistan, and Lessons for Arctic Engagement 
• Soft Snow Dragon: China's Arctic Policy Legitimation Discourses between 2012 and 2019
• China's Adaptive Diplomacy and Economic Statecraft in a Fragmented Arctic Order 
• China's Arctic Strategy and Hybrid Warfare: Targeting Governance and Strategic Responses 
• China's Strategic Role in Arctic Environmental Governance Under the Climate-Sceptic Trump 2.0 Administration
• Sino-Russian Sub-Regional Cooperation in the Far East and Arctic: From "Border Economic Belt" to "Strategic Cooperation Engine"
• China's Digital Footprint in the Arctic: The Strategic Role of Satellite and Subsea Cable Infrastructure
• Dig, Baby, Dig? China's Mineral Dominance and Ripple Effects into the Arctic
• Charting New Waters: China's Role in the Arctic Fisheries Agreement and Arctic Research
• Dispatch from Guangzhou: Stabilizing US-China Relations in the Arctic

 Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

• Medical Surveillance Monthly Report (MSMR), December 2025, v. 32, no. 12 
• Update: Cold Weather Injuries Among the Active and Reserve Components of the U.S. Armed Forces, July 2020–June 2025
• Trends in the Prevalence of Obesity Among U.S. Active Component Service Members and Civilians, 2013–2023
• Update: Diagnoses of Mental Health Disorders Among U.S. Active Component Service Members, 2020–2024
• Perinatal Mental Health Conditions Among U.S. Active Component Service Women, 2016–2022
• Reportable Medical Events at Military Health System Facilities Through Week 36, Ending September 6, 2025

 Atlantic Council

• Local and Community-Driven Solutions for Development in Fragile States 
• A New Arctic Strategy for Sweden 
• Operationalizing a Cybersecurity Strategy for the United States
• Part I—Operations 
• Part II—Scaling Resilience Through Safe Coding and Trusted Architectures 
• Sweden’s Role in Countering Hybrid Threats in the Baltic Sea Region 
• Trump Tariff Tracker 
• The US Needs a Cybersecurity Roadmap 

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

• Securing Australia:  Insights in Counterterrorism:  Views from The Strategist 

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

• Decoding Recent Immigration to the US 

 Blair Institute for Global Change

• Sovereignty in the Age of AI: Strategic Choices, Structural Dependencies and the Long Game Ahead 

 Brookings Institution

• The External Wealth of Nations Database 
• How Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ is Cutting Climate Investments and Weakening the Safety Net for Native Americans 
• Perspectives On Supply Chains and Inflation 
• Stiffening European Sanctions against the Russian Oil Trade 

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• A Quarter Century of Nuclear South Asia:  Nuclear Noise, Signaling, and the Risk of Escalation in India-Pakistan Crises 

 Cato Institute

• COVID-19 Slowed but Couldn’t Stop the Fall in Global Inequality 
• Immigrants’ Recent Effects on Government Budgets: 1994–2023 

 Center for Data Innovation

• How the Brussels Effect Hinders Innovation in the Global South 

 Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC)

• Toward Risk Thresholds for AI-Enabled Cyber Threats: Enhancing Decision-Making Under Uncertainty with Bayesian Networks 

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

• Physical AI:  A Primer for Policymakers on AI-Robotics Convergence 

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• Maintaining the Space Edge:  Strategic Reforms for U.S. Dominance in Low Earth Orbit  
• Practical H-1B Reforms to Serve U.S. Economic Interests  
• Protecting Americans from Biological Threats 

 Center on Global Energy Policy 

• Assessing US Government Efforts to Support Fossil Fuel–Reliant Communities /

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

• Americans Oppose Ceding the Donbas to Russia Amid Push for Peace Deal 

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

• In Their Own Words: How Will the Form of Air Warfare Change in the Future? 
• Thoughts from the Chairman: Xi is a Patriot 

 Clingendael Institute - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

• Charting Ukraine’s EU Path: Engaging with Key Member States 
• Managing Crises, Sharing Power:  The EU’s Inter-Institutional Cooperation in Action 
• No Longer Ironclad:  America and the Transatlantic Alliance  
• Old and New Narratives on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in Times of Political Turmoil 
• The Resilience Agenda: Meeting Europe’s Security, Climate and Competitiveness Goals Together 

 Conference of Defense Associations Institute

• Force Development:  The Strategic and Operational Role of Autonomous Systems 

 Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform - Democrats

• Operation Metro Surge: How Federal Enforcement Let to the Killing of  Renée Good and Alex Pretti  

 Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs - Democrats

• Press release 
• Report - At What Cost?  Trump's Indefinite Deployment of the National Guard in  D.C. on Track to Cost Taxpayers $600 Million a Year  

 Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

• Leapfrogging China’s Critical Minerals Dominance: How Innovation Can Secure U.S. Supply Chains 

 Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

• Barriers to Secure OT Communication: Why Johnny Can’t Authenticate 
• Reducing the Attack Surface for End-of-Support Edge Devices 

 Department of Defense/War

• Contingency Plan Guidance for Continuation of Operations in the Absence of Available Appropriations [updated January 2026] 

 Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

• DODIG-2026-047 DoD Policy and Training on Dissemination Controls for Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) 

 Egmont—The Royal Institute for International Relations

• Legitimacy Under Fire: How Ukraine Governs Without Elections 
• Renegotiating the Transatlantic Bargain 
• The Sino-India Relationship and the Future of Asia: A European Perspective 

 European Council on Foreign Relations

• After the Rupture: Middle powers and the Construction of New Order 
• The European Archipelago: Building Bridges in a Post-Western Europe 
• The New Right: Anatomy of a Global Political Revolution 
• One Battle After Another: Factional Struggles and the Making of Trump’s Foreign Policy 

 European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA)

• Roadmap for Cooperation between the EUAA and Serbia (2024-2027) 

 European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)

• ENISA International Strategy 2026 
• ENISA Stakeholder Strategy 2026-2028 

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (Ulkopoliittinen instituutti)

• The Enlarging EU as a Security Actor:  Capacity Building in the Eastern Neighborhood and the Western Balkans 
• Russia’s Full-Spectrum Influence Activities in Finland in the 2000s: Softly Made, Yet Hard to Sleep On 

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

• A Conundrum: Strategic Minerals and a Peripheral Africa 
• The US Is Not Built For War Or Peace: America’s Industrial Resilience Gap 

 Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)

• After Erdogan:  Who Will Control Turkey? 

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

• Deathonomics: The Social, Political, and Economic Costs of War in Russia 
• Mapping the MilTech War: Eight Lessons from Ukraine’s Battlefield 

 George Washington University Program on Extremism

• The Egyptian Branch of the Muslim Brotherhood in America: Yesterday and Today 

 Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

• Russia's Violent Assets: Chechen Organized Crime Groups in Germany 

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)         

• Shock and Awe: Geopolitical Disruption and Terrorist Narrative Opportunism Online 
• Telegram Stars: Exploring Micropayment Exploitation, Digital Goods and the Evolving Tactics of Terrorist Financing 

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Coast Guard: Actions Needed to Address Challenges that Hinder Maritime Security Operations GAO-26-108901 
• Defense Budget: Effects of Continuing Resolutions on Selected Activities and Programs Critical to DOD’s National Security Mission [Reissued with revisions on Feb. 4, 2026] GAO-26-107065  
• Defense Research and Engineering: Action Needed to Improve Management and Oversight of Technology Investments GAO-26-107664 
• DOD Financial Management: Air Force Needs to Properly Account for All General Equipment That Contractors Hold GAO-26-107442 
• Federal Custody: Bureau of Prisons and ICE Should Take Actions to Improve Access to Menstrual Products GAO-26-107694 
• Federal Shared Services: Adoption Challenges Underscore the Need for Consistent Leadership GAO-26-108014 
• Law Enforcement Officers: Observations on Recruitment and Retention at the Federal, Tribal, State, and Local Levels GAO-26-108495 
• Missile Warning Satellites: Space Development Agency Should Be More Realistic and Transparent About Risks to Capability Delivery [Reissued with revisions on Feb. 2, 2026] GAO-26-107085 
• Rare Diseases: Funding for Rare Neurodegenerative Disease Research and Access to ALS Investigational Drugs GAO-26-107691 
• Street Drug Analysis: Factors Affecting the Detection and Identification of Emerging Substances GAO-26-107763 
• Transforming Aviation: FAA Planning Efforts Should Address How Drones Will Communicate with and Avoid Other Aircraft GAO-26-107648 

 Global Public Policy Institute (GPPI)

• Who Gets Aid in a Resource-Constrained Environment: Lessons from Our WFP Evaluation on Targeting and Prioritization 

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

• Lessons from the Jungle for the Zoo: Support Ukraine, Help Ourselves | Key Findings Ukraine Visit 

 Henry L. Stimson Center

• Emerging Trends in the Trump Approach to Security Cooperation 

 Heritage Foundation

• Limited Nuclear War Over Taiwan:  An Initial Exercise 

 Hudson Institute

• The $550 Billion US-Japan Strategic Industrial Fund: Recommendations from the Private Sector 

 Institute for Science and International Security

• North Korean Probable High Explosive Test Sites 

 IJ Infinity Group

• Military Strategy Magazine, Winter 2026, v. 10, no. 4 
• AI Command and Staff—Operational Evidence and Insights from Wargaming
• Attacking Russia’s Center of Gravity: A Clausewitzian Answer
• Warfare of Position: When the Decisive Struggle Precedes the First Shot
• British Special Forces in the 2030s: UKSF, ‘Special Operations’ and ‘NATO First’
• How the Congolese Wazalendo Illustrate the Importance of Strategy
• Informational Coercion and the Defense of Democracy

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

• The Digital Marriage Divide: Ranking States’ Online Services for Tying the Knot 
• Public Sector AI Adoption Index 
• Tracking R&D Leadership: US Advantage Narrowing as China Gains Ground 

 Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

• Atmanirbharta in Defence: Key Considerations 
• Evolving Security Architectures in Southeast Asia: A Study of Regional Security Multilateralism 
• Indian Expatriates and Labour Reforms in GCC Countries 
• Pakistan’s Hangor-Class Submarines: Strategic Implications for India 
• The Taliban–Russia Re-Connect 
• Tracing the Eastern Nagas’ Demand for Autonomy 
• The US National Security Strategy 2025: Competing for Power in a Fragmenting World 
• The Yellow Sea Dispute: Provisional Arrangements and Persistent Deadlock 

 Institute for National Security Studies (INSS)

• Understanding Space Frontier Areas: Strategy in Cislunar Space and Beyond 

 Institute for Security and Development Policy

• The Future of Korean Research from a Nordic Perspective 
• Green Transition: Taiwan’s Climate Strategy and Prospects for EU Cooperation 
• Security Choices for the Republic of China (Taiwan) and their Implications 
• Shifting Balances in South Asia 

 Institute for the Study of War

• Africa File
• February 5, 2026 Boko Massacre in Nigeria; Ethiopia on the Brink; M23 Drone Attack; IS Attacks Niamey 
• China & Taiwan Update
• February 3, 2026 
• February 6, 2026 
• Iran Update
• February 2, 2026 
• February 3, 2026 
• February 4, 2026 
• February 5, 2026 
• February 6, 2026 
• February 7, 2026 
• February 8, 2026 
• Korean Peninsula Update
• February 3, 2026 
• Russian Occupation Update
• February 5, 2026 
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment
• February 2, 2026 
• February 3, 2026 
• February 4, 2026 
• February 5, 2026 
• February 6, 2026 
• February 7, 2026 
• February 8, 2026 

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

• Rethinking Global Value Chains Amid Geo-Economic Fragmentation 
• Rightsizing Taiwan’s Strategic Value 
• State Centrality and Minorities in Syria: Negotiate, not Weaponise, Difference 
• Taking Multi-domain Operations from Theory to Practice 
• The Unpalatable Choice on Iran 

 International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

• Four Years of Voice of Khurasan: Propaganda Trends & Practitioner Lessons 
• Voice of Khurasan: Inside Islamic State Khurasan Province's English Language Magazine 

 International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

• Japan and Strategic Connectivity: Policies, Partners, and Possibilities 

 International Crisis Group

• Seven Peace and Security Priorities for Africa in 2026 

 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

• Infrastructure of Insecurity: Deterring Maritime Incidents in the Malacca Straits 

 Jamestown Foundation

• Harnessing the People: Mapping Overseas United Front Work in Democratic States 

 Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) Press

• The Special Forces Identity Crisis and Rethinking All of Special Operations 

 Munich Security Conference (MSC)

• Mind the Deterrence Gap: Assessing Europe’s Nuclear Options 

 Mitchell Institute

• Strategic Attack: Maintaining the Air Force’s Capacity to Deny Enemy Sanctuaries 

 MITRE

• MITRE ATLAS: OpenClaw Investigation 
• MITRE Fast-tracking Acquisition Security Transformation (FAST) Study Report 

 Moms Across America (MAA)

• US Military Meals Contaminated with Toxic Pesticides, Banned Veterinary Drugs, Heavy Metals 

 National Academies Press 

• Creating a Guide to Advance the Art and Science of Decision-Making 

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)  

• The Coming War in America 

 NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence

• Handbook on Developing a National Position on International Law and Cyber Activities: A Practical Guide for States 

 NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence

• The NextGen Information Environment 

 Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI)

• CMSI Note 19: China’s Blue-Water Research Fleet: Science in Service of Strategy 
• CMSI Translations 26: Sea Dragon Refits Its Armor: The Type 076 Amphibious Assault Ship Ushers in a New Era 

 Observer Research Foundation

• The Budapest Dossier 2025: Choices In This New World 
• Democratising AI: Towards Open, Decentralised AI Ecosystems 
• The Indian Returnee Paradox: Why the Diaspora Is No Longer Driving Startup Success 
• Navigating the Paradox: India’s Blue Economy and the River Dolphin Conservation Imperative 
• Regenerating Water Bodies to Build Resilient Cities in India

 Oxford University Press (OUP)  [open access book]

• Comparing Covid Laws: A Critical Global Survey 

 Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

• The America First Investment Pledges:  How Are They Structured and Are They Realistic? 
• As US Food Aid Retreats, Can BRICS+ and Biotechnology Fill the World’s Food Security Gap? 
• Can Trump Keep His Tariffs If the Supreme Court Invalidates Them? 
• The COVID Era Inflation Surge: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Lessons 
• Some Countries Will Struggle to Fulfill Their Investment Pledges to President Trump 
• Trump's Trade War Wreaked Little Havoc on Trade Patterns Last Year 

 Pew Research

• Americans Are Divided on Next Steps for U.S. in Venezuela 
• How Americans See Immigration Officers’ Behaviors and Civilian Actions 
• Key Findings About Puerto Rico 
• A Year Into Trump’s Second Term, Americans’ Views of the Economy Remain Negative 

 Project88

• Hanoi is Planning for a 2nd American Invasion: US Policy Heightening Tensions and Fueling Repression 

 RAND Corporation

• Countering Russia-style Autocracy in Georgia 
• Developing a Risk-Scoring Tool for Artificial Intelligence–Enabled Biological Design: A Method to Assess the Risks of Using Artificial Intelligence to Modify Select Viral Capabilities 
• Governing the Unknown:  Insights from a RAND Workshop on Managing Polycrises and Catastrophic Risk 
• Just Work: Access to Worker Protections in the Changing World of Work 
• Manpower Analysis to Improve the Functional Alignment and Organizational Structure of Space Training and Readiness Command Headquarters 
• Mapping Terror:  Using Systems Analysis to Integrate Political, Social & Behavioral Drivers to Explain Extremists’ Violence 
• Meeting the Needs of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines Community 
• Old Priorities, New Contexts:  The Institutional Roots and New Developments of China’s Rare Earth Policy 
• Surveying Duality in Space
• Volume I, Americas Workshop Insights on Developing, Deploying, and Governing Dual-Use Space Systems 
• Volume II, Europe-Eurasia Workshop Insights on Developing, Deploying, and Governing Dual-Use Space Systems 
• Volume III, Indo-Pacific Workshop Insights on Developing, Deploying, and Governing Dual-Use Space Systems 

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

• Air Manoeuver Forces in European Large-Scale Combat Operations 
• Fighting Organised Crime: Recovering Illicit Assets in Chile 

 Small Arms Survey

• A History of Outsourced Violence: The Rise of the Rapid Support Forces, Libyan National Army, and Wagner Group 

 Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS)

• Strategic Positional Deadlock: Is There a Way Out? 

 Swedish Defence Research Agency

• The Future of Warfare in Russian Military Thinking 

 Swedish Institute of International Affairs

• The Institutional Consequences of Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy 

 Takshashila Institution

• India Must Architect Sectoral Plurilateral Blocs to Overcome Geopolitical Coercion 

 Taxpayers for Common Sense

• Missing the Mark: Why Golden Dome is Bad for American Taxpayers 

 Taylor & Francis

• Defense & Security Analysis
• Restricted Deterrence by Denial: Japan’s Military Role in a Taiwan Contingency  [open access] 
• Policing and Society
• A Matter of Trust? Policing Violence Against Women and Girls  [open access] 
• Security Studies
• Stealth Change: How the United States and the United Kingdom Embraced International Humanitarian Limits on Nuclear Use [open access] 
• Small Wars & Insurgencies
• Frontline State Security: Rebel Movements and Cover States in Southern Africa, 1970–1990 [open access] 

 Toda Peace Institute

• Afghanistan’s Pastoral Crisis: A Blind Spot in Humanitarian, Development and Policy Frameworks 
• China’s Expanding Arms Control Agenda and East Asian Security 

 UK Government

• Countering Illegal Use of UAS Around Prisons and Sensitive Sites 

 UK Parliament House of Commons Library

• Iran Protests 2026: UK and International Response 

 UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

• Integrating the Prevention of Violent Extremism and Illicit Weapons Proliferation in West Africa: A Way Forward 
• Securing Cyberspace for Peace: Insights into Cyberthreats and International Security in 2025 

 United States Studies Center—University of Sydney, Australia

• The Australia-Japan Special Strategic Partnership 
• Australia-Taiwan Relations: Policy Options and Priorities for Engagement 
• Managing the Unbreakable [U.S.-Australian] Alliance:  Agreements, Core Instruments, and Related Documents 
• Underwriting the U.S.-Japan Alliance 
• What’s in Trump’s New National Defense Strategy? 

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• Another Iran “Deal” Is Less Important Than Exerting U.S. Leverage 
• Establishing the Security Conditions for Further Progress in Gaza 

 World Bank

• Continental Drying: A Threat to Our Common Future