Thursday, September 30, 2021

Friday's Miscellany 09-17-2021 & 09/24/2021

 38 North

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

 AidData

 Air University

  • Air & Space Power Journal, Fall 2021, v. 35, v. 3  
    • Special Feature: The B-52 Stratofortress
    • Piloting Unmanned Aircraft with a Computer Mouse: Challenges to Point-and-Click Flying
    • National Security and the Third-Road Threat: Toward a Comprehensive Theory of Information Warfare
    • Combatting Russian Influence through Improved Security Assistance
    • Shifting Satellite Control Paradigms: Operational Cybersecurity in the Age of Megaconstellations
    • Directed-Energy Weapons: An Option for Strategic De-Escalation
    • Mobilizing Uniformed Scientists and Engineers
    • F-35 O-Ring Production Functions versus Mosaic Warfare: Some Simple Mathematics

 Air University Press

 American Enterprise Institute

 American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)

 Amnesty International

 Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

  • Medical Surveillance Monthly Report (MSMR), July 2021, v. 28, no. 7
    • Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptive Use, Active Component Service Women, U.S. Armed Forces, 2016–2020
    • Oral cavity and pharynx cancers, active component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2007–2019
    • The Evolution of Military Health Surveillance Reporting: A Historical Review

 Arms Control Association

 Army University Press

  • Military Review, 2021, China Reader Special Edition  
    • Leadership Remarks about Indo-Pacom Activities
    • The Question: Why Would China Not Invade Taiwan Now?
    • The Long March: A Generational Approach to Achieving the People’s Republic of China Strategic Objective to Annex Taiwan
    • Extract from “Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China 2019”
    • Steal the Firewood from Under the Pot: The Role of Intellectual Property Theft in Chinese Global Strategy
    • Extract from “The FBI and the National Security Threat Landscape: The Next Paradigm Shift”
    • Extract from “China’s Impact on the U.S. Education System”: Staff Report
    • Pivot Out of the Pacific: Oil and the Creation of a Chinese Empire in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
    • The People’s Bank of China’s Monetary Armament: Capabilities and Limitations of Evolving Institutional Power
    • Geoeconomics
    • China’s One Belt, One Road Initiative and Its International Arms Sales: An Overlooked Aspect of Connectivity and Cooperation?
    • China’s Maritime Militia and Fishing Fleets: A Primer for Operational Staffs and Tactical Leaders
    • The Strategic Significance of the Chinese Fishing Fleet
    • Competing with China for a Free and Open Indo-Pacific
    • Contemporary China: In Conflict, Not Competition
    • Chinese Soft Power: Creating Anti-Access Challenges in the Indo-Pacific
    • Economic Warfare: China’s Financial Alternative to Military Reunification with Taiwan
    • How to Counter China’s Disinformation Campaign in Taiwan
    • Preparing for the Future: Marine Corps Support to Joint Operations in Contested Littorals
    • Taiwan and the U.S. Army: New Opportunities amid Increasing Threats
    • Understanding the People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force: Strategy, Armament, and Disposition
    • The Impact of Base Politics on Long-Range Precision Fires: A Closer Look at Japan
    • Drive Them into the Sea
    • Deterring the Dragon: Returning U.S. Forces to Taiwan
    • Extract from Rear Admiral Luo Yuan’s Speech at the 2018 Military Industry Ranking Awards Ceremony and Innovation Summit
  • A Legacy of Ashes: The US Army and the Destruction of San Francisco

 Asan Institute for Policy Studies

 Asia Society

 Asia-Pacific Leadership Network (APLN)

 ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

 Atlantic Council

 Australian National University Press

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

 Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)

 Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

 Blair Institute for Global Change

 Brookings

 Brown University Costs of War Project

 Bruegel

 Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

 CATO Institute

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

 Center for Advanced Defense (C4ADS) 

 Center for American Progress (CAP)

 Center for Global Development

 Center for International Policy

 Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies (ORSAM)

 Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

 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

 Center on U.S.-China Relations

 Centre for Independent Studies

 Chatham House 

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

 China Observers in Central and Eastern Europe

 Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

 College of Europe

 Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee

 Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee

 Congress. Senate. Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

 Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

 Department of Defense (DOD)

 Department of Defense, Office of Inspector General (DODIG)

  • DODIG-2021-123 Audit of Military Services Special Assignment Airlift Mission Cargo Movement Requests
  • DODIG-2021-124 Independent Auditor’s Report of Department of State Funds Transferred to DoD for Human Immunodeficiency Virus/ Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Prevention
  • DODIG-2021-125 Evaluation of U.S. Special Operations Command’s Supply Chain Risk Management for the Security, Acquisition, and Delivery of Specialized Equipment
  • DODIG-2021-129 Audit of Defense Logistics Agency Award and Management of Bulk Fuel Contracts in Areas of Contingency Operations
  • DODIG-2021-132 Management Advisory: Identifying and Reporting Possible Human Trafficking Violations and Abuse Against Afghan Special Immigrant Visa Applicants and Other Afghan Refugees
  • DODIG-2021-135 Management Advisory Regarding the Continued Use of Unauthorized “For Official Use Only” Markings and the Ineffective Implementation of the Controlled Unclassified Information Program

 Department of Homeland Security Inspector General

  • OIG-21-59 CISA Can Improve Efforts to Ensure Dam Security and Resilience
  • OIG-21-60 DHS Needs to Enhance Its COVID-19 Response at the Southwest Border
  • OIG-21-65 Coast Guard Should Prioritize Upgrades to Rescue 21 Alaska and Expand Its Public Notifications during Outages
  • OIG-21-68 TSA Has Not Implemented All Requirements of the 9/11 Act and the TSA Modernization Act

 Egmont Institute

 Elliot School of International Affairs - Central Asia Program

 Energy Information Administration (EIA)

 EU Non-Proliferation Consortium

 European Institute of the Mediterranean

European Asylum Support Office (EASO)

 European Council on Foreign Relations

 European Security and Defence College (ESDC)

 European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)

 European Union CT MORSE

 European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

 Federal Reserve Bank of New York

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

 Foundation for Strategic Research (Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique)

 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 of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

 German Marshall Fund of the United States

 Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

  • Climate Resilience: Options to Enhance the Resilience of Federally Funded Roads and Reduce Fiscal Exposure GAO-21-436
  • Coast Guard: A More Systematic Process to Resolve Recommended Actions Could Enhance Future Surge Operations GAO-21-584
  • Coast Guard: Information on Defense Readiness Mission Deployments, Expenses, and Funding GAO-21-104741
  • Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel: Congressional Action Needed to Break Impasse and Develop a Permanent Disposal Solution GAO-21-603
  • COVID-19: Defense-Wide Working Capital Fund Cash Management and Defense Logistics Agency Pandemic Response GAO-21-104590
  • Defense Budget: DOD Has Adopted Practices to Manage Within the Constraints of Continuing Resolutions GAO-21-541
  • DOD Fraud Risk Management: Actions Needed to Enhance Department-Wide Approach, Focusing on Procurement Fraud Risks GAO-21-309
  • Electronic Health Records: DOD Has Made Progress in Implementing a New System, but Challenges Persist GAO-21-571
  • Electricity Grid Resilience GAO-21-105403
  • Federal Real Property Asset Management: Additional Direction in Government-Wide Guidance Could Enhance Natural Disaster Resilience GAO-21-596
  • Missile Warning Satellites: Comprehensive Cost and Schedule Information Would Enhance Congressional Oversight GAO-21-105249
  • Public Transportation: Identifying Lessons Learned Could Help Improve FTA's Process to Manage Safety Risks GAO-21-104029
  • Science & Tech Spotlight: Advanced Plastic Recycling GAO-21-105317
  • U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services: Actions Needed to Address Pending Caseload GAO-21-529
  • Veterans Justice Outreach Program: Further Actions to Identify and Address Barriers to Participation Would Promote Access to Services GAO-21-564

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

 Henry Jackson Society

 Heritage Foundation

 Hoover Institution

  • Strategika, no. 75 America after Afghanistan
    • Our Revels Now Are Ended
    • Afghanistan Post-Mortem
    • Dented, Not Damaged: The American Empire After Afghanistan
    • Graveyard of Narratives
    • The Afghanistization Of America
    • A Lost War: A Conversation With Victor Davis Hanson And H. R. McMaster On Afghanistan’s Past, Present, And Future
    • Fleeing Afghanistan
    • Who Will Trust Us after Afghanistan?
    • The ‘Forever War’ Hasn’t Ended

 Human Rights Watch

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

 Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT)

 Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

 Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

 Institute for International and Strategic Affairs (IRIS)

 Institute for Science and International Security

 Institute for National Security Studies (INSS - Israel)

 Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP)

 Institute for Strategic Dialogue 

 Institute for Strategic, Political, Security and Economic Consultancy (ISPSW)

 Institute for the Study of War

 Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

 Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

 Intelligence & National Security Alliance (INSA)

 International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

 International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

 International Crisis Group

 International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law (IIJ)

 James Martin  Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS)

 Jamestown Foundation

  • China Brief, September 23, 2021, v. 21, no. 18
    • Xi Facing Opposition on Different Fronts in Run-Up to Key Party Plenum
    • Evidence of the Chinese Central Government’s Knowledge of and Involvement in Xinjiang’s Re-Education Internment Campaign
    • Beijing’s Growing Influence on the Global Undersea Cable Network
    • Divide, Depoliticize, and Demobilize: China’s Strategies for Controlling the Tibetan Diaspora
  • Terrorism Monitor, September 24, 2021, v. 19, no. 18   
    • Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan’s Discursive Shift From Global Jihadist Rhetoric to Pashtun-Centric Narratives
    • Can New Policies Curtail Banditry in Northwestern Nigeria Amid the School Closure Crisis?
    • The Taliban’s Persistent War on Salafists in Afghanistan

 Lowy Institute for International Relations

 Manhattan Institute

 Marshall European Center for Strategic Studies

 Martens Centre for European Studies

 Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

 Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI)

 Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies

 National Academies Press

 National Bureau of Asian Research

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

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

 National Security Archive

 NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence

 NATO Defense College

 Naval War College

 New America

 NSI's Strategic Multilayer Assessment (SMA) program

 Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)

 Observer Research Foundation

 Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office)

 Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

 Partnership for Public Service

 Pew Research Center

 Policy Exchange (UK)

 Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)

 Project on Government Oversight (POGO)

 Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS)

 RAND Corporation

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

 Small Wars Journal

 South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

 Swedish Institute of International Affairs

 Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (SJAC)

 Taylor & Francis

 Transnational Institute (TNI)

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

 UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

 UN Women

 US Institute of Peace (USIP)

 Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP)

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

 William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies

 Wilson Center

 World Bank

World Economic Forum