Saturday, December 30, 2023

Friday's Miscellany 12-22-2023 & 12-29-2023

 38 North

 American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

 Army Cyber Institute (ACI)

  • Cyber Defense Review, Fall 2023, v. 8, no. 3 
    • Coalition Strategic Cyber Campaigns: Functional Engagement as Cyber Doctrine for Middle Power Statecraft
    • Weaponizing Words: Using Technology to Proliferate Information Warfare
    • The Ukrainian Information and Cyber War
    • U.S. Allies Offensive Cyber: Entrapment Risk or Entanglement Nuisance
    • Risks to Zero Trust in a Federated Mission Partner Environment
    • Competitive Advantage in the Russo-Ukraine War: Technological Potential against a Kremlin Goliath
    • Beyond “Bigger, Faster, Better:” Assessing Thinking about Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Conflict

 Asan Institute for Policy Studies

 Atlantic Council

 Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA)

 Brookings Institution

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

 Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS)

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

  • Caucasus Analytical Digest
    • No. 135: Impact of the Russian War against Ukraine on Georgia 
  • Russian Analytical Digest
    • No. 305: Perceptions of Russia’s War in the Global South 
    • No. 306: Russian Occupation in Ukraine              
    • No. 307: Taking Russia to Court  
  • Ukrainian Analytical Digest (UAD)
    • No. 3: Russian Occupation in Ukraine 

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

 Center for the Study of Intelligence

  • Studies in Intelligence, December 2023, v. 67, no. 4 
    • Intelligence and Diplomacy in China’s Civil War George C. Marshall as Special Envoy to China, December 1945 to January 1947
    • Intelligence and Technology: Artificial Intelligence for Analysis: The Road Ahead
    • An Inevitable Future? The End of Human Intelligence Analysis—Better Start Preparing
    • “This Piece Was Written by a Machine”: Intelligence Analysis, Synthesis, and Automation
    • The Enduring Importance of the Humanities in the Work of Intelligence
    • Instituting Devil’s Advocacy in IC Analysis after the Arab-Israeli War of October 1973

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

 Centre for Information Resilience (CIR)

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

 Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies

  • Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, 2023, v. 22, no. 4 
    • Military Service and Serving The Community: How the Second World War Propelled Activism Forward for Indigenous and Native American Servicewomen
    • Servicewomen as Whistleblowers: Canadian Servicewomen and the Revelations of Military Sexual Violence
    • The LGBT Purge, Its Demise, and the Aftermath: Retired Servicewomen Paving The Way
    • A Nurse In Somalia And The Current Call To Increase Female Membership in the Canadian Armed Forces: A Retrospective Re-Interpretation
    • Between Military Intent and Experience: Understanding Disconnect through Institutional Ethnography
    • What Kind of Mission is that?: The Brazilian Armed Forces’ Performance in Nontraditional Operations
    • Militarising Rape: A Strategic Analysis of Bosnian Rape Camps and the Japanese "Comfort Women" System
    • Instructional Design Linking Military Training and Academic Education for Officer Cadets
    • Application of the Targeting Process in Simulations of the Anti-Surface Operation Conducted by Mil Mi-24 Helicopter

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

 Clingendael Institute - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

 Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

  • CTC Sentinel, December 2023, v. 16, no. 11 
    • Iraq’s New Regime Change: How Tehran-Backed Terrorist Organizations and Militias Captured the Iraqi State
    • The Path to October 7: How Iran Built Up and Managed a Palestinian ‘Axis of Resistance’
    • The Future of Terrorist Use of Improvised Explosive Devices: Getting in Front of an Evolving Threat

 Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee

 Congress. House. Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party

 Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

 Counter Extremism Project (CEP)

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

 Department of Defense (DOD)

 Department of Homeland Security Office of the Inspector General

  • OIG-24-08 Coast Guard National Maritime Center's Oversight of Merchant Mariner Training and Examinations

 Egmont: The Royal Institute for International Relations

 European Asylum Support Office (EASO)              

 European Institute of the Mediterranean

 European Network for Economic and Fiscal Policy Research (EconPol)

 European Union (EU)

 European Union CT MORSE

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

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

 German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

 Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

 Globsec 

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

  • Defense Health Care: DOD Assessment Needed to Ensure TRICARE Behavioral Health Coverage Goals Are Being Met GAO-24-106597 
  • Medical Device Cybersecurity: Agencies Need to Update Agreement to Ensure Effective Coordination GAO-24-106683 
  • Pandemic Risk: Federal Insurance Approaches Would Entail Costs to Taxpayers and Businesses Might Not Participate GAO-24-106075 
  • VA Health Care: The Medically Underserved Facilities Initiative GAO-24-106306 

 Hoover Institution

  • Strategika, no. 89: Urban Warfare, Collateral Civilian Deaths, and the Laws of War  
    • A Not-So-Distant Mirror: What the Battle of Manila During World War II Suggests About Urban Combat, War Crimes, and the Battle for Gaza
    • Urban Warfare: Old and New
    • The Laws of War and Their Application in Israel’s Fight against Hamas

 Hudson Institute

 Human Rights Watch

 Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)  

 Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

 Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD)  

 Institute for the Study of War

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

 International Crisis Group

 International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

 Lieber Institute (West Point)

 LSE Press

 Marine Corps University Middle East Studies

  • MES Insights, December 2023, v. 14, no. 6 
    • Excommunicating Hamas: Why Differences between Globalist and Nationalist Armed Islamist Groups Matter

 Martens Centre for European Studies

 Middle East Institute (MEI)

 National Bureau of Asian Research

 National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS)

  • International Symposium on Security Affairs 2022 
    • The New Normal of Great Power Competition: The U.S.-China-Russia Relationship and the Indo-Pacific Region

 National Institute of Justice (NIJ)

 National Intelligence Council (NIC)

 National Security Agency (NSA)

 Norwegian Defence Research Establishment

 Observer Research Foundation

 Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

 Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

 RAND Corporation

 Sagamore Institute

 Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS)

 Taylor & Francis

 Terrorism Research Initiative (TRI)

  • Perspectives on Terrorism, 2023, v.17, no. 4 
    • Terrorism and Strategic Effect: A Conceptual Framework
    • Imagined Extremist Communities: The Paradox of the Community-Driven Lone-Actor Terrorist
    • Right-wing extremist group survival in Finland – a qualitative case analysis of Soldiers of Odin and the Nordic Resistance Movement
    • Doubling Down on Accountability in Europe: Prosecuting ‘Terrorists’ for Core International Crimes and Terrorist Offences Committed in the Context of the Conflict in Syria and Iraq
    • National Security Dynamics: From Administrative to Preventive Detention in Israel's Counter-terrorism Landscape
    • The Punishment of the Grave: A Neglected Motivation for Jihad and Martyrdom
    • Assessing the Nature and Role of Terrorism Risk Models in the Insurance Sector
    • A Look at the State of Research on [Counter-] Terrorism and Violent Extremism
    • Examining Ideology, Asymmetry, and Ethnonationalism in the 2023 Israel-Gaza Crisis
    • Bibliography: Individual and Contextual Factors of Radicalisation
    • Counter-Terrorism Bookshelf: Eleven Books on Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism-Relate Subjects

 Transnational Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC)

 UK Parliament

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

 US Customs and Border Protection (USCBP)

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

 White House