Monday, November 23, 2020

Friday's Miscellany 11-20-2020

 38 North

 AidData

 American Enterprise Institute

 Amnesty International

 Army Cyber Institute (ACI)

  • Cyber Defense Review, Fall 2020, v. 5, no. 3
    • Expanding the Cyber Discussion                                                                                                                  
    • To Defend Forward, US Cyber Strategy Demands a Cohesive Vision for Information Operations 
    • A Legal Framework Enhancing Cybersecurity through Public-Private Partnership
    • Jack Voltaic®: Bolstering Critical Infrastructure Resilience
    • Implementing Intrusion Kill Chain Strategies by Creating Defensive Campaign Adversary Playbooks
    • Cyber Maneuver and Schemes of Maneuver: Preliminary Concepts, Definitions, and Examples
    • Beyond Hyperbole: The Evolving Subdiscipline of Cyber Conflict Studies
    • Why the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC)   Must be Expanded to Cover Vital Civilian Data
    • Implementing Intrusion Kill Chain Strategies by Creating Defensive Campaign Adversary Playbooks
    • Contesting Key Terrain: Urban Conflict in Smart Cities of the Future
    • Prioritizing SOF Counter-Threat Financing Efforts in the Digital Domain
    • COVID-19:  The  Information  Warfare  Paradigm  Shift                                                                                                                             

 Army University Press

  • Journal of Military Learning, October 2020, v. 4, no. 2
    • Student-Veteran Perceptions of Combat Experience Integration in the Classroom
    • The Group Psychology of Red Teaming
    • Adapting the Art of Design: A PME Game Design Framework
    • Building Mutual Trust in the Classroom: Lessons for the Command and General Staff College
    • Paycheck to Paycheck: A Path to Financial Readiness
    • U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command Virtual Learning
    • Teaching Noncommissioned Officer Professional Military Education in the COVID-19 Environment
  • Great Power Competition: The Changing Landscape of Global Geopolitics

 Army War College

  • Parameters, Winter 2020, no. 50, no. 4
    • Challenging Prevailing Models of US Army Suicide
    • Gender Blindness in US Doctrine
    • Civilians, Urban Warfare, and US Doctrine
    • Stability Operations in WW II: Insights and Lessons
    • Contribution Warfare: Sweden's Lessons from the War in Afghanistan
    • Never Again? Germany's Lessons from the War in Afghanistan
    • India and Pakistan: Managing Tensions
    • Diverging Interests: US Strategy in the Middle East
    • On "Projecting Stability: A Deployable NATO Police Command"

 Asia Society / Center on U.S. China Relations

 Athena [UK National Space Team]

Atlantic Council

 Australian Government Department of Defence

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

 Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)

 Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA)

 Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs

 Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs

 British American Security Information Council (BASIC)

 Brookings

 Bruegel

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

 CATO Institute

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

 Center for American Progress (CAP)

 Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

 Center for Global Development

 Center for International Policy

 Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

 Center on Global Energy Policy

 Center on Law, Ethics and National Security

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

 Chatham House

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

 Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

 Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

  • CTC Sentinel, November/December 2020, v. 13, no. 11
    • Afghanistan’s Future Emirate? The Taliban and the Struggle for Afghanistan
    • Biosecurity in the Wake of COVID-19: The Urgent Action Needed
    • Outlasting the Caliphate: The Evolution of the Islamic State Threat in Africa

 Congress. House. Armed Services Committee

 Congress. House. Oversight and Reform Committee

 Congress. House. Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

 Congress. Senate Commerce, Science, & Transportation Committee

 Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee

Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies

 Danish Institute for International Studies

 Defense Personnel and Security Center (PERSEREC)

 Department of Defense (DOD)

 Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

 Department of Homeland Security Inspector General

  • OIG-21-07 Major Management and Performance Challenges Facing the Department of Homeland Security
  • OIG-21-09 DHS Components Have Not Fully Complied with the Department’s Guidelines for Implementing the Lautenberg Amendment

 Department of State

 Elliot School of International Affairs - Central Asia Program

 EU Joint Research Centre (JRC)

 European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)

 European Council on Foreign Relations

 European Leadership Network (ELN)

 European Parliament

 European Union

 European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)

 European Union CT MORSE

 Federal Reserve Bank of New York

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

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

 Future Directions International

 German Council on Foreign Relations (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik e. V.)

 German Development Institute

 German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

 German Marshall Fund of the United States

  • #Tech2021 - Ideas for Digital Democracy
    • Unlocking Digital Governance
    • Investing in the Future with a National Bank for Green Tech
    • Leveraging Open Data with a National Open Computing Strategy
    • Building Civic Infrastructure for the 21st Century
    • Mitigating Supply Chain Risk: Component Security is Not Enough
    • Addressing the Harmful Effects of Predictive Analytics Technologies
    • Advancing Digital Trust with Privacy Rules and Accountability
    • Prioritizing Workforce Mobility in the Age of Digital Transformation
    • Launching a Cyber Risk Grand Challenge
    • Strengthening the Global Internet with a Digital Trade Agreement
    • Establishing a Tech Strategist Cohort Across the Federal Government
    • Upgrading Digital Financial Infrastructure for Fairness
    • Reforming the Patent System to Support Innovation
    • Averting a Crisis of Confidence in Artificial Intelligence
    • Protecting Democracy and Public Health from Online Disinformation
    • 5G Security: The New Energy Security

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

  • Biomedical Research: NIH Should Publicly Report More Information about the Licensing of Its Intellectual Property GAO-21-52
  • COVID-19: Federal Efforts Accelerate Vaccine and Therapeutic Development, but More Transparency Needed on Emergency Use Authorizations GAO-21-207
  • Crude Oil Markets: Effects of the Repeal of the Crude Oil Export Ban GAO-21-118
  • Defense Acquisitions: Joint Cyber Warfighting Architecture Would Benefit from Defined Goals and Governance GAO-21-68
  • Defense Intelligence: Comprehensive Plan Needed to Improve Stakeholder Engagement in the Development of New Military Intelligence System GAO-21-57
  • Defense Production Act: Opportunities Exist to Increase Transparency and Identify Future Actions to Mitigate Medical Supply Chain Issues: GAO-21-108
  • Distance Learning: Challenges Providing Services to K-12 English Learners and Students with Disabilities during COVID-19 GAO-21-43
  • Drug Misuse: Agencies Have Not Fully Identified How Grants That Can Support Drug Prevention Education Programs Contribute to National Goals GAO-21-96
  • EPA Grants to Tribes: Additional Actions Needed to Effectively Address Tribal Environmental Concerns GAO-21-150
  • Federal-Aid Highways: States and Local Governments Reported Benefits to Federal Highway Fund Swapping, but Impacts Cannot be Definitively Determined GAO-21-88
  • Federal Social Safety Net Programs: Millions of Full-Time Workers Rely on Federal Health Care and Food Assistance Programs GAO-21-45
  • Federal Telework: Key Practices That Can Help Ensure the Success of Telework Programs [testimony] GAO-21-238T
  • Food Safety: CDC Could Further Strengthen Its Efforts to Identify and Respond to Foodborne Illnesses GAO-21-23
  • GAO Audits Involving DOD: Status of Efforts to Schedule and Hold Timely Entrance Conferences GAO-21-185R
  • Global Food Security: Information on Spending and Types of Assistance Provided by the United States and Other Donors GAO-21-47R
  • Military Personnel: Perspectives on DOD's and the Military Services' Use of Borrowed Military Personnel GAO-21-27R
  • Nuclear Waste Disposal: Better Planning Needed to Avoid Potential Disruptions at Waste Isolation Pilot Plant GAO-21-48
  • Puerto Rico Electricity: FEMA and HUD Have Not Approved Long-Term Projects and Need to Implement Recommendations to Address Uncertainties and Enhance Resilience GAO-21-54
  • Weapon System Sustainment: Aircraft Mission Capable Rates Generally Did Not Meet Goals and Cost of Sustaining Selected Weapon Systems Varied Widely GAO-21-101SP

 Heritage Foundation

 Human Rights Watch

 Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA)

Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

 Institute for Integrated Transitions (IFIT)

  • Interim Governments: Lessons and Guidelines
  • Transitional Justice and Violent Extremism
    • Uganda: Between Revulsion and Realism - Policies and Dilemmas in Responding to the LRA
    • Libya: The Limits of Reconciliation - Assessing the Revisions of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG)
    • Afghanistan: In War, No One Distributes Sweets - Assessing Transitional Justice Responses and Approaches in Post-2001 Afghanistan
    • Transitional Justice and Violent Extremism - An Original Policy Framework

 Institute for National Security Studies (INSS - Israel)

 Institute for Science and International Security

 Institute for the Study of War

 Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

 Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

 International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR)

 International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)

 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

 International Monetary Fund (IMF)

 Italian Institute for International Political Studies

 Jamestown Foundation

  • Terrorism Monitor, November 20, 2020, v. 18, no. 21
    • Turkey’s ‘African Eagle’ Trains Turkish-Speaking   Troops   in Somalia: Where Next?
    • Central Asia’s Specter of  Insecurity: The View from Badakhshan to Fergana
    • Islamic State-Khorasan’s  Peshawar Seminary Attack and War Against Afghan  Taliban Hanafis

 Martens Centre for European Studies

 Middle East Institute

 Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies

 National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA)

 National Defense University Press

  • Joint Force Quarterly (JFQ),  99 (4th Quarter, October2020 )
    • Social Media Weaponization: The Biohazard of Russian Disinformation Campaigns
    • Recruiting Cyber Specialists: Why the Services Must Modernize Qualification Standards
    • Space Operations: Lines, Zones, Options, and Dilemmas
    • The Strategic Potential of Collected Exploitable Material
    • Competition Is What States Make of It: A U.S. Strategy Toward China
    • Pardon the Paradox: Making Sense of President Trump’s Interventions in Military Justice
    • Artificial Intelligence: A Decisionmaking Technology
    • Decision Superiority Through Joint All-Domain Command and Control
    • Rightsizing Our Understanding of Religion
    • Success on Purpose: A Message for Leaders of Military Organizations
    • The Importance of Joint Concepts for the Planner
    • Mobilization in the 21st Century: Asking the Right Question
    • A Globally Integrated U.S. Coast Guard on a World Stage
    • Differentiating Kinetic and Cyber Weapons to Improve Integrated Combat
    • Calling Forth the Military: A Brief History of the Insurrection Act
    • More Afraid of Your Friends Than the Enemy: Coalition Dynamics in the Korean War, 1950–1951

 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

  • NIST TN 2111 - An Empirical Study on Flow-based Botnet Attacks Prediction  
  • SP 800-209 - Security Guidelines for Storage Infrastructure 
  • SP 800-181 Rev. 1 - Workforce Framework for Cybersecurity (NICE Framework) 

 Naval War College

 Notre Europe - Institut Jacques Delors

 New York State Bar Association

 Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)

 Observer Research Foundation

 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

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

 Peace Research Institute of Frankfurt (PRIF/HSFK)

 Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

 Pew Research Center Global Attitudes & Trends

 Pew Research Center U.S. Politics & Policy

 Policy Exchange

 Polish Institute of International Affairs

 Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)

 RAND Corporation

 Small Wars Journal

 Stimson Center

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

 Strategy Bridge

 Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (SJAC)

 Taylor & Francis

 UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

 US Bomb Data Center (USBDC)

  • Data & Statistics
    • Annual Explosives Incident Report (EIR)
    • Arson Incident Report (AIR)
    • Federal Firearms Licensees
    • Firearms Trace Data [US and International]
    • Annual Firearms Manufacturers And Export Report
    • Firearms Commerce Report in the United States
    • Federal Firearms Licensee Statistics Theft/Loss Reports
    • National Firearms Act (NFA) Applications
    • Number of NFA Firearms Processed by Fiscal Year

 U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)

 US Institute of Peace (USIP)

 Vienna Center for Disarmament and NonProliferation

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

 White House

 Wilson Center

 World Bank

 World Economic Forum