Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Friday's Miscellany 06-09-2023

 38 North

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

 Air University Press

 American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

 Amnesty International

 Arms Control Association

 ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

 Atlantic Council

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

 Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs 

 Brookings Institution

 Brown University Costs of War Project

 Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

 Cato Institute

 Center for Climate & Security

 Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies (ORSAM)

 Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

  • Analyses in Security Policy
    • No. 325: Hotspot Balkans: Serbia and Kosovo 
  • Caucasus Analytical Digest
    • No. 132: Russia's War Against Ukraine: Connectivity and Disruption in the South Caucasus 

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) 

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

 Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

 Cyberspace Solarium Commission 2.0

Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies

 Defense Personnel and Security Center (PERSEREC)

  • PERSEREC-PA-23-01 Preventing Targeted Violent Attacks: Best Practices for Bystander Intervention 

 Department of Defense (DOD)

 Department of Defense, Inspector General (DODIG)

  • DODIG-2023-079 Audit of DoD Actions Taken to Protect DoD Information When Using Collaboration Tools During the Coronavirus Disease–2019 Pandemic 
  • DODIG-2023-080 Evaluation of U.S. Special Operations Command's Joint Military Information Support Operations Web Operations Center 
  • DODIG-2023-081 Audit of the Tracking and Reporting of DoD-Owned Shipping Containers 
  • DODIG-2023-083 Evaluation of the Collection of Demographic Data in the Military Justice System 
  • DODIG-2023-084 Evaluation of Accountability Controls for Defense Items Transferred Via Air to Ukraine within the U.S. European Command Area of Responsibility 
  • DODIG-2023-085 Review of the DoD’s Co-Location Policies to Support Dual Military Marriages 

 Department of Justice Inspector General

  • 23-078  Audit of the Department of Justice’s Strategy to Address the Domestic Violent Extremism Threat 

 Department of the Navy Board of Inspection and Survey (INSURV)

 Egmont: The Royal Institute for International Relations

 European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Hybrid CoE)

 European Council on Foreign Relations

 European Network for Economic and Fiscal Policy Research (EconPol)

 European Policy Centre (EPC)

 European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (Ulkopoliittinen instituutti)

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

 George Washington Program on Extremism

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

 German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

 German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

 Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

Globsec

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

  • Cybersecurity: Interior Needs to Address Threats to Federal Systems and Critical Infrastructure GAO-23-106869 
  • DNA Collections: CBP is Collecting Samples from Individuals in Custody, but Needs Better Data for Program Oversight [Reissued with revisions on Jun. 5, 2023] GAO-23-106252 
  • GPS Modernization: Space Force Should Reassess Requirements for Satellites and Handheld Devices GAO-23-106018 
  • Missile Defense: DOD Needs to Improve Oversight of System Sustainment and Readiness GAO-23-105578 
  • The Nation's Fiscal Health: Action Needed to Address Projected Unsustainable Debt Levels GAO-23-106873 
  • Public Health: Leading Practices Could Help Guide HHS Reform Efforts to Address Risk and Improve Preparedness GAO-23-106872 
  • Space Command and Control: Improved Tracking and Reporting Would Clarify Progress amid Persistent Delays GAO-23-105920 
  • Weapon Systems Annual Assessment: Programs Are Not Consistently Implementing Practices That Can Help Accelerate Acquisitions GAO-23-106059 
  • Wildland Fire: Federal Agencies Face Barriers to Recruiting and Retaining Firefighters GAO-23-106888 

Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS) 

 Heritage Foundation

 Human Rights Watch

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

 Institute for China-America Studies (ICAS)

 Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT)

 Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

 Institute for Science & International Security

 Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP)

 Institute for the Study of War

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

 International Peace Institute (IPI)

 Irregular Warfare Center

 Jamestown Foundation

  • Terrorism Monitor, June 9, 2023, v. 21, no. 12 
    • Brief: Cameroonian President Holds Emergency Meeting to Address ISWAP Attacks
    • Brief: Tatmadaw Uses Thermobaric Weapons on Village in Counter-Insurgency Struggle
    • Can the SAF Defeat the RSF in Sudan?
    • The Rising Danger From Crude, Homemade Weapons and Political Violence in Japan
    • Iran's Mojaher-6 Drones May Tilt the Battlefield Balance in Ukraine

 Macdonald-Laurier Institute

 Martens Centre for European Studies

 Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

 National Academies Press  

 National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

  • Emerging Challenges to Extended Deterrence, Assurance and the Future of U.S. Alliances 
  • Information Operations against the United States: Defensive Actions are Needed 
  • Journal of Policy & Strategy, 2023, v. 3, no. 2 
    • Nuclear Disarmament: The Contemporary Great Illusion?
    • The Use of Economic Tools to Deter Chinese Military Aggression Against Taiwan
    • Why the Deep Nuclear Reductions Movement Should Focus on Russia and China
    • Gold, Guns, and Whale Oil: Three Impediments to Global Nuclear Zero
    • Gen. Kevin Chilton (USAF, Ret.), former Commander of U.S. Strategic Command [interview]
    • Thomas Kent, former President and CEO of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty [interview]
    • Allied Assurance and Extended Deterrence in a Multipolar World, September 2022 [symposium remarks]
    • The Benefits of Strengthened Homeland Missile Defense, October 2022 [symposium remarks]
    • Assessing the National Security Strategy and National Defense Strategy, November 2022 [symposium remarks]
    • Assessing the 2022 Nuclear Posture Review, December 2022 [symposium remarks]
    • Document No. 1. Excerpts from the Statement of Dr. John F. Plumb, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy before the House Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Strategic Forces on Fiscal Year 2024 Strategic Forces Posture, March 8, 2023
    • Document No. 2. Excerpts from the Statement of General Glen VanHerck, United States Air Force Commander, United States Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command before the House Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Strategic Forces on Fiscal Year 2024 Strategic Forces Posture, March 8, 2023

 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

  • NISTIR 8406 Cybersecurity Framework Profile for Liquefied Natural Gas 

 National Security Archive

 NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence

 NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence

 Naval War College China Maritime Studies

 Observer Research Foundation

 Office of Community Oriented Policing Services

 Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)

 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

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

 Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

 Pew Research Center

 Policy Exchange (UK)

 Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED)

 PwC

 Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

 RAND Corporation

 Republic of Korea Office of the President

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

 S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

  • Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA), June 2023, v. 15, no. 3 
    • Repressed therefore Radicalised? Explaining Variation in Islamists’ Responses to State Repression in Indonesia
    • JI’s Infiltration of State Institutions in Change of Tactics
    • Online Radicalisation of the Indonesian Diaspora
    • Terrorism and Counter Terrorism in Malaysia in a Post Pandemic Environment
    • Reintegrating Former Terrorist Combatants in Mindanao

 South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

 Special Inspector General Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

  • SIGAR 23-26-FA Department of the Air Force’s Former A-29 Pilot and Maintenance Training Program in Afghanistan: Audit of Costs Incurred by Sierra Nevada Corporation 

 Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS)

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

 Takshashila Institution

 Taxpayers for Common Sense

 Taylor & Francis

 UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

 UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI)

 US Institute of Peace (USIP)

 US Marine Corps (USMC)

 US Secret Service (USSS)

 United States Studies Centre (USSC)

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

 White House

 World Bank