Thursday, May 7, 2026

Friday's Miscellany 04-24-2026 & 05-01-2026

 38 North

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

 Air University Press

 Alliance for Automotive Innovation

 American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF)

 American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

 Arab Center for Research & Policy Studies

 Arctic Institute

 Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

  • Medical Surveillance Monthly Report (MSMR), March 2026, v. 33, no. 3 
    • Mortality Rates Among U.S. Service Members, 2010–2020
    • Incidence and Burden of Endometriosis Among U.S. Active Component Service Women, 2017–2024
    • Mid-Year Populations by Sex, Age, and Race and Ethnicity of U.S. Active Component Service Members, 2023–2025
    • Reportable Medical Events at Military Health System Facilities Through Week 49, Ending December 6, 2025

 Army Center of Military History

  • Army History Magazine, Winter 2026, no. 138 
    • The Bonus Army: A Possible No-Win Situation Made Worse
    • The Forgotten War: Korean War Art by Weldy Baer
    • Operation Urgent Fury: A Staff Ride Toward a Joint Force
    • What Did He See? The Early Life and Military Career of T/4 Isaac Woodard

 Army T2COM G2

 Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)

 Asia-Pacific Leadership Network (APLN)

 ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

 Atlantic Council

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

 Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES)

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

 Brookings Institution

 Brown University Costs of War Project

 Canadian Global Affairs Institute (Institut Canadien Des Affaires Mondiales) (CGAI)

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

 CENTCOM (U.S. Central Command)

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

 Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

 Center for Naval Analyses  (CNA)

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) 

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

  • Caucasus Analytical Digest
    • No. 146: The Transformation of Armenian-Russian Relations 
  • Russian Analytical Digest
    • No. 338: Agricultural Trade in Geopolitical Context 
    • No. 339: Russia and Syria After Assad's Fall 
    • No. 340: The Transformation of Armenian-Russian Relations 
  • Ukrainian Analytical Digest (UAD)
    • No. 18: Ukrainian Refugees in Europe 

 Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment (CSBA)

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

 Centre for Statecraft and National Security (CSNS)

 Chatham House

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

 Clingendael Institute - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

 Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

  • CTC Sentinel, April 2026, v. 19, no. 4 
    • Beyond Misuse: Artificial Intelligence, Grievance, and the Future Landscape of Political Violence
    • A View from the CT Foxhole: Greg Hinds, Former Director of Counter Terrorism, Interpol
    • The Collapse of Indefinite Detention in Northeast Syria: Implications Seven Years Later for Syria and Beyond
    • Security Lessons from the Paris Olympics for the 2026 FIFA World Cup and Other Major Events

 Conference of Defense Associations Institute

 Congress and King Charles III

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

 Council on Geostrategy

 Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

 Department of Defense/War, Inspector General (DODIG/DODIW)

  • DOWIG-2026-077 Physical Security Concerns Identified at Travis Air Force Base 
  • DOWIG-2026-076 Evaluation of the U.S. Navy’s Submarine Safety Quality Assurance Maintenance of Virginia-class Submarines 

 Department of Homeland Security Inspector General

  • OIG-26-05 DHS Wildfire Sensors Did Not Consistently Detect Fires and Provide Early Warning 

 Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)

 Egmont—The Royal Institute for International Relations

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

 European Policy Centre (EPC)

 Europol

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (Ulkopoliittinen instituutti) (FIIA)

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

 Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)

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

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

 German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

 German Marshall Fund of the United States

 Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

 Globsec

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

  • Aviation Workforce: FAA Could Strengthen Regional Pilot Pipeline by Establishing Timelines for Training Initiatives GAO-26-107856 
  • Clean Water Act: Corps of Engineers Has Improved Oversight of Compensatory Mitigation, but Needs Implementation Guidance GAO-26-106827 
  • Department of Government Efficiency: Treasury Needs to Fully Implement Data Protection Controls GAO-26-108131 
  • Disaster Assistance High-Risk Series: FEMA Assistance for Disaster Survivors GAO-26-108154 
  • Federal Employees Health Benefits Program: Additional Actions Needed to Address Significant Risks in Verifying Provider Eligibility GAO-26-108139 
  • Hydrogen Energy: Technologies Offer Potential Benefits but Face Challenges to Widespread Use GAO-26-107932 
  • Industrial Security: Improved Risk Management and Stakeholder Engagement Needed to Help DOD Address Mission Gaps GAO-26-107861 
  • Military Personnel: DOD Should Improve Processes for Determining Cost-of-Living Allowances GAO-26-107490 
  • Multimodal Freight Office: DOT Should Report to Congress on Progress Toward Meeting Statutory Requirements GAO-26-108554 
  • Navy and Coast Guard Shipbuilding: A Disciplined, Strategy-Driven Approach Is Needed to Achieve Ambitious Goals GAO-26-109068 
  • United Nations Renovations: Budget and Schedule Status of Selected Projects Are Mixed, and State Could Strengthen Oversight GAO-26-107577 
  • Weapon System Sustainment: DOD Identified Critical Cost Growth, and the Army Should Take Action to Yield Cost Savings GAO-26-108140 

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

 Henry L. Stimson Center

 Hudson Institute

 Human Rights Watch

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

 Institute for Government

 Institute for Science and International Security

 Institute for Security & 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 Crisis Group

 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

 International Peace Institute  (IPI)

 Irregular Warfare Center (IWC)

  • The Kurds of Iran as a Strategic Factor in Western Approaches to a Changing Islamic Republic 
  • Operation Epic Fury/Roaring Lion is an IW Showcase 
  • Russian Private Military Companies May Become a Security Threat to Their Hosts in Africa 
  • PRISM, Spring 2026, v. 11, no. 2 
    • When States Go Rogue: Criminal Tools in Hybrid Warfare
    • Agriculture as a Domain of Hybrid Warfare: China’s Strategy and U.S. Security Gaps
    • Understanding Cognitive Warfare: Beyond Information
    • Medical Intelligence in Support of Irregular Warfare
    • Strategic Culture – A Complex Model for a Complex Concept
    • Maskirovka and the Olympics: The Russian Choice to Initiate Conflict During the Olympic Games
    • Soft Power by Design: China’s United Front Strategy for Taiwan’s Civil Society in the Age of Irregular Warfare
    • Countering Hostile Chinese Lawfare: An Irregular Warfare-Based Approach
    • From Saguntum to Taipei: The Hazards of Strategic Ambiguity
    • Mapping the BRICS Plus Cryptocurrency Ecosystem: Is the BRICS Plus Bloc Effectively Using Cryptocurrency to Avoid Sanctions?
    • Equity Chain Mapping: Adapting Counter Threat Finance for Great Power Competition
    • Shadow Strategy: Air and Space Power in the Gray War
    • Controlling Command: Is AI Capturing the Ethics of War?
    • Preparing for Future Wars: Incongruent Beliefs on Autonomous Weapons
    • Warfare in the Technology Arena: Cost-Imposition and Maneuver in the Electromagnetic Battlespace

 Italian Institute for International Political Studies

 James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS)

 Jamestown Foundation

  • China Brief, May 3, 2026, v. 26, no. 9 
    • Great Power Conflict Concerns Spurs Stockpiling
    • State-Driven Nuclear Expansion is Winning Energy Race
    • Beijing Argues Japan’s Rearmament is Illegal
    • ‘Fingertip Formalism’ Undermines Digital Governance
    • New Free Trade Zone Solidifies Eurasian Ties
    • Takaichi and Japan Resist Chinese Pressure
  • Terrorism Monitor, May 1, 2026, v. 24, no. 8 
    • Privatization of War in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
    • TTP and the Escalating Islamabad-Kabul Security Crisis
    • Lakurawa’s Hybrid Jihadist–Criminal Governance in Northwestern Nigeria
    • HAYI: Iranian Proxy Targeting Jewish and Israeli Sites in Europe
  • Terrorism Monitor, April 17, 2026, v. 24, no. 7
    • ‘Unconditional Escalation’ Marks Iran’s Shifting Deterrence Strategy
    • Outlook for Minority Rebel and Separatist Militants in Iran
    • Houthis and Al-Qaeda Growing Terror Supply Chain
    • Potential for Kurdish Militants to Capture Territory in Iran
    • Nigerian Leaders Resist Iranian Revolutionary Ideology in Country’s North

 Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA)

 Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions

 Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) Press

 Kiel Institute for the World Economy

 Macdonald-Laurier Institute

 Marine Corps University Press

  • Journal of Advanced Military Studies, Spring 2026, v. 17, no. 1 
    • Forging the Will to Fight: Lessons from the Winter War, 1939–1940
    • Geoeconomic Analysis of Price of Persistence in the Fight against Terrorism: Financial Flows and the Psychology of Warfare
    • The Will to Fight: The Most Overused Phrase and Misunderstood Aspect of Warfare
    • Preventing an Unacknowledged Assumption: Inexhaustible American Will to Fight
    • Beyond Willingness to Fight: The Individual’s Defense Relationship Theory as a Comprehensive Framework for Citizen Commitment to National Defense and Security—A Review Article
    • More than Morale: Identity Fusion and the Psychology of the Will to Fight
    • National Will to Fight in Allied Democracies: A Comparative Enabling-Conditions Assessment
    • Beyond Break-Falls: MCMAP and the Will to Fight
    • Becoming, Not Joining: Belongingness as the Core Driver of Will to Fight
    • The Secret of the Ukrainian Resilience: National Identity and Will to Fight
    • Fighting for Someone Else
  • World War I: A Strategist's Guide and a Warning from the Past 

 Mercator Institute for China Studies

 Middle East Institute (MEI)

 Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

 Mitchell Institute

 MITRE

 National Bureau of Asian Research

 National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)

 National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA)

 National Security Technology Acceleration (NSTXL)

 NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence

 NATO Defense College

 Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI)

  • China Maritime Report #53: Filling the Ranks: China's Military Recruiting System and the PLA Navy 
  • CMSI Translations #30: Vision for Future Next-Generation Aircraft Carrier Supply Ships 
  • CMSI Quarterly Review, 2026, v. 1, no. 5 
    • CMSI Archive Translation: Sharpening Their Sword, On Course for Victory: An Account of the Armament Department of the East Sea Fleet Leveraging the Advantages of the New System in Order to Improve Equipment Support Abilities
    • CMSI Archive Translation: Attack of the “Iron Shark”—The Party Committee of an Eastern Theater Command Navy Submarine Flotilla Focuses on Actual Combat to Bolster Its Ability to Prevail in Combat
    • CMSI Archive Translation: Problems with Managing the Use of Warship Damage Control Equipment and Suggestions for Optimization
    • CMSI Archive Translation: Analysis of Problems with Warship Damage Control Plans and Methods for Preparing Damage Control Plans
    • CMSI Archive Translation: Construction of Carriers for Strategic Power Projection in Response to National Security Needs
    • CMSI Archive Translation: Why Landing Operations Are Hard
    • CMSI Archive Translation: Countermeasures for Problems in Transport Service Support in Cross-Strait and Beach Landing
    • CMSI Archive Translation: Approaches to Improving Support Capabilities for Dock-Less Unloading
    • CMSI Archive Translation: Deployment of Petroleum, Oil, and Lubricant (POL) Support Forces for Warship Formations Conducting Distant Ocean Operations
    • CMSI Archive Translation: Lessons from Foreign Submarine Rotation
    • CMSI Archive Translation: The Biggest Obstacle to Chinese Nuclear Submarines Going Out into the Indian Ocean
    • CMSI Archive Translation: Serve Readiness and Warfighting, Promote Marine Environmental Construction
    • CMSI Archive Translation: Mine Warfare Should Not Be Neglected
    • CMSI Archive Translation: Discussion of Capacity Building of China’s Mine Countermeasure Support Ships
    • CMSI Archive Translation: An Examination of the Use of Civil Helicopters in Mine Countermeasure Operations
    • CMSI Archive Translation: Research on Combined Support for Torpedoes and Sea Mines
  • CMSI Quarterly Review, 2026, v. 1, no. 4 
    • China Maritime Report #51: The Seafarer Profession in Contemporary China
    • CMSI Note 18: Flooding the Zone: The Use of Civilian Landing Craft (LCTs) in PLA Amphibious Operations
    • CMSI Note 19: China’s Blue-Water Research Fleet: Science in Service of Strategy
    • CMSI Note 20: Flying Higher and Higher: VADM Cui Yuzhong - Moving Up in Complex Times
    • CMSI Translations #26: Sea Dragon Refits Its Armor: The Type 076 Amphibious Assault Ship Ushers in a New Era
    • CMSI Translations #27: What is the Significance of the PLAN Type 055 Destroyer Zunyi Task Force's Distant Deployment to Australia?
    • *CMSI Translations #28: Uphold the Idea of a Maritime Community with a Shared Destiny and Forge a New Chapter in Maritime Military Security Cooperation

 Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI)

 Observer Research Foundation

 Office of Science and Technology Policy [White House]

 Oxford University Press (OUP)

 Pew Research Center

 Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

 RAND Corporation

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

 The Sentry

 SilverLining and the Joseph Rainey Center for Public Policy

 Special Competitive Studies Project

 Springer

 Stanford Internet Observatory

  • Journal of Online Trust and Safety, 2026, v. 3, no. 2 
    • Protecting Young Users on Social Media: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Content Moderation and Legal Safeguards on Video-Sharing Platforms
    • Public Support for Misinformation Interventions Depends on Perceived Fairness, Effectiveness, and Intrusiveness
    • “I Tend to Run to Problems That People Run Away From”: Emotion as an Essential Asset in Trust and Safety Work
    • Uncovering and Overcoming Offender Tactics for Distributing Child Sexual Abuse Material on File-Hosting Services

 Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS)

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

 Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (SIEPS)

 Takshashila Institution

 Taylor & Francis

 Toda Peace Institute

 UK Parliament House of Commons

 UK Parliament House of Lords

 UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

 UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI)

 United States Studies Center (USSC)

 U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission