Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Friday's Miscellany 07-21-2022 & 07-29-2022

 38 North

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

 Air University Press

 American Enterprise Institute

 Amnesty International

 Arms Control Association

 Army Center of Military History

 Army University Press 

 Asan Institute for Policy Studies

 Atlantic Council

 Australian Defence College (ADC)

  • Australian Journal of Defence and Strategic Studies, v. 4, no. 1, 2022 
    • Challenges to the Australian Strategic Imagination
    • Dogmatic Application of Effects-Based Thinking
    • Many Strategists but Little Strategy: Addressing a Deficiency in Australia
    • The Challenge of Automated and Autonomous Technologies to Australian Defence Force Compliance with Workplace Health and Safety Laws
    • Putin’s War in Ukraine: Missteps, Prospects and Implications
    • Military Strategy Fundamentals
    • The Impact of COVID-19 on the Recruitment of Army Health Officers
    • Ransomware 2.0: An Emerging Threat to National Security
    • Of Young Turks and Mustache Petes: Deconstructing the Operational Level of War
    • Worlds Apart on China

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

Baker Institute for Public Policy

 Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)

 Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

 Bipartisan Policy Center

 Blair Institute for Global Change

 Brookings Institution

 Bruegel

 Canada. Department of National Defence

  • Canadian Military Journal, Summer 2022,  v. 22, no. 3 
    • It’s About Time: The Renewal of the Canadian Armed Forces’ Ethos
    • Trusted to Serve: Rethinking the CAF Ethos for Culture Change
    • Improving Parliamentary Scrutiny of Defence
    • An International Perspective: Canada’s Commitment to Peace and Stabilization Operations in Ukraine
    • The Canadians Fighting in Ukraine
    • “Let’s StratCom the Shit Out of That”: Task Force Latvia and Adventures with StratCom
    • NATO: Some Thoughts from a Canadian in the Alliance
    • The Greater Caribbean Basin as a Complex Littoral System: Implications for Joint Operations in the Region
    • Hybrid Warfare: Redefining and Responding to Hostile Intent
    • Turning Point

 Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 

 CATO Institute

 Center for Advanced Defense (C4ADS) 

 Center for American Progress (CAP)

 Center for Climate and Security (CCS)

 Center for Data Innovation

 Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

 Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS)

 Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

  • Caucasus Analytical Digest No. 128: Aftermath of the 2020 Karabakh War: New Geopolitical Reality in the South Caucasus 

 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 European Reform (CER) 

 Centre for Independent Studies

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

 Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies

  • Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, 2022, v. 21, no. 4 
    • Clausewitz’s Friction in War and the United States invasion of Iraq
    • Why is China Accommodating a Nuclear North Korea?
    • Alone and Unafraid: Advisors and Risk Across the Spectrum of Conflict
    • Military Officers and the Design Gaze
    • Military Culture 2.0: The Female Cadet’s Approach, Feminine Competencies, and Pan-Critical Feminism - Drawing examples from American and Norwegian Special Forces
    • Non-State-Actors and the Subterranean Dimension

 Chatham House

 Chief of Naval Operations (CNO)

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

 Clingendael -Netherlands Institute of International Relations

 Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

  • CTC Sentinel, July 2022, v. 15, no. 7 
    • The Buffalo Attack: The Cumulative Momentum of Far-Right Terror
    • CTC-ICT Focus on Israel: A View from the CT Foxhole: Brigadier General (Reserves) Nitzan Nuriel, Former Director of the Counter-Terrorism Bureau in the Prime Minister’s Office of Israel
    • Real or Imagined: Evidence Concerning the Mental Health-Terrorism Nexus from Australian Terrorism Trials
    • The Relentless Terrorist: A Profile of Muaz al-Fizani

 Congress. Senate. Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

 Congressional-Executive Commission on China

 Council on Foreign Relations

 Defense Priorities

 Department of Defense (DOD)

 Department of Defense, Inspector General (DODIG)

  • DODIG-2022-104 (U) Audit of Sole-Source Depot Maintenance Contracts [redacted] 
  • DODIG-2022-113 Evaluation of Efforts by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to Mitigate Foreign Influence 

 Department of Homeland Security Inspector General

  • OIG-22-52 DHS and CBP Should Improve Intellectual Property Rights Management and Enforcement (REDACTED)  
  • OIG-22-54 DHS Did Not Adequately or Efficiently Deploy Its Employees to U.S. Military Installations in Support of Operation Allies Welcome 

 Department of State

 East West Center

 Egmont: The Royal Institute for International Relations

 Elliot School of International Affairs - Central Asia Program

 EU Joint Research Centre (JRC) 

 European Asylum Support Office (EASO)

 European Council on Foreign Relations

 European Parliament Think Tank

 European Policy Centre (EPC)

 European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)

 European Union CT MORSE

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

 Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)

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

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

 German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

 German Marshall Fund of the United States

 Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

 Globsec

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

 Government Accountability Office (GAO) 

  • Air Travel and Communicable Diseases: Federal Leadership Needed to Advance Research GAO-22-104579 
  • Coast Guard: Actions Needed to Enhance IT Program Implementation GAO-22-105092 
  • Cloud Computing: DOD Needs to Improve Workforce Planning and Software Application Modernization GAO-22-104070 
  • Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction: DHS Office Has Opportunities to Improve Partner Services and Employee Morale GAO-22-106133 
  • Defense Health Agency: Oversight Needed to Better Ensure That Children Are Screened, Tested, and Treated for Lead Exposure GAO-22-105006 
  • F-35 Aircraft: DOD Should Assess and Update Its Engine Sustainment Strategy to Support Desired Outcomes GAO-22-104678 
  • Facial Recognition Technology: CBP Traveler Identity Verification and Efforts to Address Privacy Issues GAO-22-106154 
  • Federal Research Centers: Revising DOD Oversight Policy Could Assure Access to Performance and Effectiveness Information GAO-22-105278 
  • Foreign Assistance: State and USAID Are Taking Actions to Advance Equity Abroad and Mitigate Challenges GAO-22-105112 
  • Healthy Eating: Government-Wide Solutions for Promoting Healthy Diets, Food Safety, and Food Security GAO-22-106078 
  • Information Technology and Cybersecurity: Using Scorecards to Monitor Agencies' Implementation of Statutory Requirements GAO-22-106105 
  • Military Service Academies: Actions Needed to Better Assess Organizational Climate GAO-22-105130 
  • Maritime Cargo Security: CBP Should Provide Additional Guidance for Certain Non-Containerized Cargo Inspections GAO-22-104210 
  • Nuclear Waste Cleanup: DOE's Efforts to Manage Depleted Uranium Would Benefit from Clearer Legal Authorities GAO-22-105471 
  • Nuclear Waste Cleanup: Hanford Site Cleanup Costs Continue to Rise, but Opportunities Exist to Save Tens of Billions of Dollars GAO-22-105809 
  • Persistent Chemicals: Technologies for PFAS Assessment, Detection, and Treatment GAO-22-105088 
  • Preventing a Dirty Bomb: Vulnerabilities Persist in NRC's Controls for Purchases of High-Risk Radioactive Materials GAO-22-103441 
  • Semiconductor Supply Chain: Policy Considerations from Selected Experts for Reducing Risks and Mitigating Shortages GAO-22-105923 
  • Sexual Harassment: Opportunities Remain for VA to Improve Program Structure, Policies, and Data Collection GAO-22-106103 
  • Small Business Research Programs: Air Force Had Success in Some Areas with New Awards Process GAO-22-105223 
  • State Department: Additional Actions Needed to Improve Workplace Diversity and Inclusion GAO-22-105182 
  • Tribal Broadband: National Strategy and Coordination Framework Needed to Increase Access GAO-22-104421 
  • U.S. Courts: Action Needed to Improve IT Management and Establish a Chief Information Officer GAO-22-105068 
  • World Trade Center Health Program: Quality Assurance Program Should Include Monitoring of Access to Health Services GAO-22-105303 

 Green Finance & Development Center

 Henry Jackson Society

 Heritage Foundation 

 Hudson Institute

 Human Rights Watch

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

 Institute for China-America Studies (ICAS)

 Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA) 

 Institute for Defense Analyses (ISA)

 Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD)  

 Institute for the Study of War

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

 International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

 International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR)

 International Crisis Group

 Italian Institute for International Political Studies (Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale)

 Jamestown Foundation

  • China Brief,  July 15, 2022, v. 22, no. 13 
    • China’s Shifting Approach to Alliance Politics
    • PLA Air Force Remedies Self-Defeating Training Culture
    • Beijing’s Propaganda Support for Russian Biological Warfare Disinformation, Part 2: Historical Context and Contemporary Motivations
    • Will the China-Pakistan Corridor Get a Boost with a New Government in Islamabad?
  • Terrorism Monitor, July 15, 2022, v. 20, no. 14 
    • Islamic State in Khorasan Province Exploits Tajik Martyrs for Online Recruitment in Central Asia
    • Pakistani CounterInsurgency Measures Risk Fueling Further Unrest in Baluchistan Province
    • Islamic State Propaganda Renews Focus on Africa, but a “Jihadist Monopoly” Remains Elusive
    • Twin Soliloquies in the South Pacific: China and the West Pursue Pacific Island Nations

 Japan Ministry of Defense

 Jewish Institute for National Security of America’s (JINSA)

 JFK Special Warfare Center and School

  • Special Warfare, January-March 2022, v. 35, no. 1 
    • Is there an ethical crisis in Army Special Operations?
    • Developing SOF Moral Reasoning: Preparing Humans for Hard Wear on the Moral Terrain
    • Ethics is Leader Business
    • SOF Ethical Truths
    • All Training is Ethics Training
    • Exercise Routines in the New Year

 Lowy Institute for International Relations

 Marine Corps University Press

 Marshall European Center for Strategic Studies

 Middle East Institute (MEI)

 Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

 Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI)

 National Academies Press 

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

 National Defense University Press

  • Joint Force Quarterly (JFQ),  106, (3rd Quarter, July 2022) 
    • Cyber in the Shadows: Why the Future of Cyber Operations Will Be Covert
    • Overcoming Barriers to Institutional Learning: Insights from Insurgent Groups
    • The Rules of the Game: Great Power Competition and International Law
    • Insights on Theater Command and Control from the Creation of Allied Force Headquarters
    • Ghosts of Tsushima or Kobayashi Maru? Japan’s Problematic Preoccupation with Decisive Naval Battles in World War II
    • Moving Past the Name: Focusing on Practical Implementation of the India-U.S. Strategic Relationship
    • U.S. Forces Korea’s Operation Kill the Virus: Combating COVID-19 Together and Sustaining Readiness
    • Deterrence Without Escalation: Fresh Insights into U.S. Decisionmaking During Operation Earnest Will
    • The Integrated “Nonwar” in Vietnam

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

  • NISTIR 8235 Security Guidance for First Responder Mobile and Wearable Devices 

 National Security Archive

 NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence

 Naval War College

  • International Law Studies 2022, v. 99, issue 1 
  • Naval War College Review, Spring 2022, v. 75, no. 2 
    • Countering China’s “Trident” Strategy—Frustrating China’s Aims in the East and South China Seas and the Indian Ocean
    • War Is the Storm—Clausewitz, Chaos, and Complex War Studies
    • Command of the Sea Redux
    • No Magic Number—Predreadnought Fleet Architecture in the U.S. Navy, 1902–1905
    • What WAS Nimitz Thinking?
    • The Second Anglo-Icelandic Cod War (1972–73)—Analysis of a Modern Sea Dispute and Implications for the South China Sea
    • Reflections on Reading

 New America

 Observer Research Foundation

 Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)

 Operations and Policy Center (OPC) 

 OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)

 Our World in Data

 Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

 Pew Research Center

 Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

 Radicalisation Awareness Network Centre of Excellence

 RAND Corporation

 Royal Australian Air Force Air Power Development Centre

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) 

 S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

 Small Wars Journal 

 South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

 Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

  • SIGAR 22-34 DOD’S Salary Payments to the Afghan Ministry of Defense:  DOD Did Not Use APPS as Intended and Internal Control Weaknesses Raise Questions About the Accuracy of $232 Million in Salary Payments 

 Swedish Institute of International Affairs

 Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (SJAC)

 Taylor & Francis

 UK Ministry of Defense

 UK Parliament

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

 UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

 UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

 UN Women

 U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission

 US Institute of Peace (USIP)

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

 White House

 William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies

 Wilson Center

 World Academy of Art & Science (WAAS)

  • Cadmus Journal, July 2022, Special Issue 
    • Report on War in UkraineThe War in Ukraine: Global Perspectives on Causes and Consequences 

 World Economic Forum