Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Friday's Miscellany 08-27-2021

 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Khorasan Province (ISISK, ISIS-K, Islamic State-Khorasan Province (ISPK), Daesh–Khorasan, Wilayat Khorasan) Resources

 Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies

 Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)

 Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)

 Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

 Congressional Research Service (CRS)

 Counter Extremism Project

 Department of State

 European Asylum Support Office (EASO)

 Henry Jackson Society

 Middle East Institute (MEI)

 Observer Research Foundation

 Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)        

 Taylor & Francis

 US Institute of Peace (USIP)

 Other Items of Interest:

 38 North

 Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS)

 Air Force Research Institute (AFRI)

  • Strategic Studies Quarterly, Fall 2021, v. 15, no. 3
    • The Technologies and International Politics of Genetic Warfare
    • An Overlooked Aid to Arms Control: US Nuclear Modernization
    • Strategic Imperative: A Competitive Framework for US-Sino Relations
    • The Remote Sensing Revolution Threat
    • Arctic Space Strategy: The US and Norwegian Common Interest and Strategic Effort
    • Comprehensive Security Approach in Response to Russian Hybrid Warfare

 Air University Press

  • America’s Strategic Baggage in the Middle East: Is it Necessary and Sustainable
  • Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs, Fall 2021, v. 5, no. 5
    • Managerial Technicalism: The Evolving Nature of Canadian Decision Making in the Afghanistan War, 2001–2014
    • The Second Nagorno- Karabakh War: Takeaways for Singapore’s Ground- Based Air Defense
    • India’s Acquisition of the S-400 Air Defense System: Implications and Options for Pakistan
    • The Provisional Air Corps Regiment  at Bataan, 1942: Lessons for Today’s Joint Force
    • Changing Political Dynamics  in South Asia: The Belt and Road Initiative and Its Effects  on Indian Regional Hegemony
    • The China–Australia Cold War: Unpacking National Security Concerns and  Great Power Competition
    • Stewards of the Status Quo: US Air, Space, and Cyber Imperatives in the  Indo- Pacific Gray Zone
    • Geopositional Balancing: Understanding China’s Investments in Sri Lanka
    • To Honor Its Commitment to UN Arms Trade Treaty, China Must Sacrifice
    • Missile Woes: Why North Korea’s New (Monster) ICBM May Signal Significant Shortcomings in North Korea’s Nuclear Deterrent
  • Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs, Special  2021, v. 4, no. 6
    • Myanmar Probably Needs a Military . . . Just Not the One It Has
    • Women on the Front Lines in Myanmar’s Fight for Democracy
    • Myanmar in the US Indo-   Pacific Strategy
    • The Myanmar Coup as an ASEAN Inflection Point
    • Myanmar’s Military Coup
    • Between Political Violence and COVID-19: Many Citizens in Myanmar Pushed to Armed Resistance

 Amnesty International

 Army War College

  • Parameters, Autumn 2021, no. 51, no. 3
    • The Alt-Right Movement and National Security
    • Crisis Management Lessons from the Clinton Administration's Implementation of Presidential Decision Directive 56
    • Assessing Risk at the National Strategic Level: Visualization Tools for Military Planners
    • Reversing the Readiness Assumption: A Proposal for Fiscal and Military Effectiveness
    • Great (Soft) Power Competition: US and Chinese Efforts in Global Health Engagement
    • Hope versus Reality: The Efficacy of Using US Military Aid to Improve Human Rights in Egypt
    • Samuel Huntington, Professionalism, and Self-Policing in the US Army Officer Corps
    • The Battalion Commander Effect
    • The Evolution of Hybrid Warfare: Implications for Strategy and the Military Profession

 Asan Institute for Policy Studies

 Asia Foundation

 Atlantic Council

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

 Australian Trade and Investment Commission

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

 Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

 Berghahn Publishers

  • Conflict and Society, 2021, v. 7, no. 1 [all open access]
    • Introduction: Experiential Landscapes of Terror
    • (Counter)Terrorism and the Intimate: Bodies, Affect, Power
    • Shockwaves: Atmospheres beyond the Conflict City/Ordinary City Divide
    • The State of Emergency at Home: House Arrests, House Searches, and Intimacies in France
    • Listening to Terror Soundscapes: Sounds, Echoes, and Silences in Listening Experiences of Survivors of the Bataclan Terrorist Attack in Paris
    • “Counterterrorism Citizens” and the Neurotic City
    • Introduction: The Longitudinal Ethnography of Violence
    • Telling Tales?: Subjective Ethnography and Situated Narratives in Longitudinal Research on Violence in Nicaragua
    • Changing Narratives of Intimate Partner Violence: A Longitudinal Photo-Ethnography
    • Times of Violence: The Shifting Temporalities of Long-Term Ethnographic Engagement with Burundi
    • “What about Last Time?”: Exploring Potentiality in Danish Young Women’s Violent Conflicts
    • “I Showed You What I Thought Was Appropriate”: Reflections on Longitudinal Ethnographic Research and the Performativity of Dutch Gang Life

 Blair Institute for Global Change

 Brookings

 Canada. Royal Canadian Air Force

  • Royal Canadian Air Force Journal, Spring 2021, v. 10, no. 2
    • “The Way of an Eagle in the Air” – The Canadian Air Board and the First Trans-Canada Flight
    • “We’re About to Crash”: The Ghosts of KB 965 and Other Lost Aircraft at Canadian Forces Station Alert, 1950–1991
    • How We Think: Embracing Complexity in Canadian Armed Forces Policy
    • GPS Denial: The Implications to RCAF Operations

 Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

 CATO Institute

 Center for a Media Assistance (CIMA)

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

 Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

 Center for Global Development

 Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM)

 Center for International Policy

 Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

 Center for Space Policy and Strategy (CSPS)

 Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

 Center on Global Energy Policy

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

 Centre for Independent Studies

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

 Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

 College of Europe

 Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)

 Conflict Armament Research

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

 Council on Strategic Risks (CSR)

 Counter Extremism Project

 Department of Defense (DOD)

 Department of Defense, Office of Inspector General (DODIG)

  • DODIG-2021-106 Audit of the Department of Defense’s Controls on Health Information of Well-Known Department of Defense Personnel  

 Department of Justice Inspector General

  • 21-109  Audit of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Headquarters-Based Oversight of its Supported Foreign Law Enforcement Units

 East-West Center

 Economic Research Forum

European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats

European Council on Foreign Relations

 European Institute of the Mediterranean

 Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI)

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

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

 Future Directions International

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)  

  • Defense Transportation: The Army Should Take Action to Better Ensure Adequate Rail Support to Combatant Commanders GAO-21-411
  • Facial Recognition Technology: Current and Planned Uses by Federal Agencies GAO-21-526
  • Priority Open Recommendations: Department of Homeland Security GAO-21-377PR
  • Public Safety Officers' Benefits Program: Bureau of Justice Assistance In Compliance With Offset and Reporting Requirements for 9/11-Related Claims GAO-21-553R
  • Small Business Administration: Physical Disaster Loan Performance Before and After Changes in Statutory Collateral Requirements GAO-21-581R

 Heritage Foundation

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

 Innovation Frontier Project (IFP)

 Institute for China-America Studies (ICAS)

Institute for Security and Development Policy

 Institute for Security Studies [Africa]

 Institute for Strategic Dialogue 

 Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

 International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

 International Peace Institute (IPI)

 Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs

 Italian Institute for International Political Studies

 James Martin  Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS)

Manhattan Institute

 Marine Corps History Division

  • Marine Corps History Magazine Summer 2021, v. 7, no. 1
    • Doughboy Devil Dogs: U.S. Army Officers in the 4th Brigade in the Great War
    • The American Naval Base in Ponta Delgada, 1917–19
    • Marine Corps Boot Camp during World War II: The Gateway to the Corps’ Success at Iwo Jima
    • Hybrid Warfare in Vietnam: The U.S. and South Vietnamese Success against the Viet Cong Insurgency
    • Fighting the Phantom: 1st Viet Cong Regiment in I Corps
    • Game Review: The Shores of Tripoli

 Marshall European Center for Strategic Studies

  • per Concordian, 2021, v. 11, no. 2
    • The Pandemic and National Security
    • Profound Implications: How the Pandemic has Affected Security Across the World
    • Effective Multilateralism: The EU, Great Power Competition and COVID-19
    • COVID-19 and Preparedness: Lessons for Future Crises
    • COVID-19 Challenges the MENA Region: The Pandemic's Impact on the Middle East and North Africa
    • Managing Pandemics: What Armed Forces Can Do
    • Therapies and Implications: The Consequences of COVID-19 in the Post-Soviet Space
    • COVID-19 and Kyiv: The Pandemic and Its Impact on Ukraine
    • Trade Routes and Security Alliances: The Post-Pandemic Security Terrain in Central Eurasia
    • Strategic Deterrence Unabated: Defending the Nation During a Pandemic
    • Bringing Foreign Fighters Home: How Kosovo Rehabilitates Repatriated Islamic State Fighters
    • A New Normal: Health Security May Become a Core Task of Militaries

 Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

 National Endowment for Democracy (NED)

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

  • SP 1800-13 Mobile Application Single Sign-On: Improving Authentication for Public Safety First Responders

National Iranian American Council (NIAC)

 NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence

Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (NUPI)

Observer Research Foundation

 Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)

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

 Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

 Peace Research Institute of Frankfurt (PRIF/HSFK)

 Peacekeeping & Stability Operations Institute  (PKSOI)

 Pew Research Center

Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)

 Radicalisation Awareness Network Centre of Excellence

 RAND Corporation

 Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University

 Small Wars Journal

 South African Institute of International Affairs

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

 Swedish Defence Research Agency

 Taylor & Francis

 Terrorism Research Initiative (TRI)

  • Perspectives on Terrorism, August 2021, v.15, no. 4
    • Counter-Terrorism as a Public Policy: Theoretical Insights and Broader Reflections on the State of Counter-Terrorism Research
    • Rival Consolidation in Nascent Insurrections: Why Some Militant Groups Wage Sustained Insurgencies
    • The Terrorism Recidivism Study (TRS): An Update on Data Collection and Results
    • The Dead Drops of Online Terrorism
    • Connecting, Competing, and Trolling: “User Types” in Digital Gamified Radicalization Processes
    • International Links and the Role of the Islamic State in the Barcelona and Cambrils Attacks in 2017
    • Evidence to Explain Violent Extremist Communication: A Systematic Review of Individual-Level Empirical Studies
    • Frictional Security Governance: Policing the Crime-Terror Nexus in Denmark
    • Tracing the Fate of Central Asian Fighters in Syria: Remainers, Repatriates, Returnees, and Relocators
    • From Spandau to Guantanamo: Prisons as Propaganda Instruments for Extremists and Terrorists
    • Counter-Terrorism Studies: A Glimpse at the Current State of Research (2020/2021) 
    • Counter-Terrorism Bookshelf: 5 Books on Terrorism & Counter- Terrorism-Related Subjects
    • Bibliography: Terrorism by Country - United States
    • Bibliography: Hamas
    • Recent Online Resources for the Analysis of Terrorism and Related Subjects
    • Best Theses on Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism Award 2019-2020

 UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)

 US Army Heritage & Education Center (USAHEC) Library

 US-China Economic and Security Review Commission

 US Postal Service Inspector General

  • 21-067-R21 U.S. Postal Inspection Service Oversight of Its Use of Cryptocurrency

 US Studies Institute

 World Economic Forum